MU121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Afrika Bambaataa, Dj Kool Herc, Parents Music Resource Center
Document Summary
Musical advances made by hip hop performance dj"s. Characteristics of black oral culture that influenced rappers. Reasons why some artists like ll cool j and run-dmc were able to cross over. Criticisms hip-hop suffered at the hands of music critics and groups like the pmrc. Hip hop has two dominant characteristics beat and rhythms. Early hip hop dj"s in the bronx in the 70"s began remixing songs live with turntables. Hip hop is responsible innovations to popular music such as: break spinning, sampling, scratching and elevating the turntable to and instrument. Herc realized that dancers were more interested in the drum breaks in the middle of songs than the complete song. He used two turntables, both playing the same record and he extended the drum break. Bambaataa made any record of any genre or recorded song into raw materials for his mixes. He had a genre-less concept of music. Grandmaster flash: the inventor of the quick mix.
