MUSI 1530 Lecture Notes - Urban Art, B-Boying, Mento
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Grand ole opry: a radio program beginning in 1925 on the wsm station in nashville, Tennessee, continuing to the present day, which featured a rotating line-up of current country musicians; presently broadcast on television as well (p. 316) Hi-fi (high fidelity): label given to technologically modern stereo sound, coinciding with improvements in studio recording of the late 1960s; enabled sonic experimentation by rock artists, and gave the effect of sound moving around the listener (p. 330) Glam rock: a form of progressive rock from the 1970s which emphasized the elaborate, showy personal appearance and costuming of its practitioners, often highlighting gender ambiguity, eg. david bowie (p. 331) Progressive country: a term used to describe a style of country music combining country and rock techniques, developed during the 1970s. Nashville sound, which was regarded as too homogenized. Dub: a branch of the reggae tradition in which verbal performances are improvised over prerecorded musical accompaniments (p. 356)
