MUSC 2150 Lecture Notes - Psychedelic Rock, Concept Album, Aretha Franklin
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The art and culture of the hip-hop dj. Disc jockey: someone who selects, plays, and/or announces recordings for an audience. Performative dj: a dj who not only selects recordings, but manipulates them in real time for audiences, e. g. mixing and scratching. Turntablism: a musical performance art in which the turntable is treated as a musical instrument. Hip hop: a cultural phenomenon that emerged in the bronx in the early 1970"s. Comprises dj- ing, mc-ing (rapping), b-boying/b-girling (breakdancing), and graffiti art. Break: a short percussion solo found in funk, soul, or rock songs. The repetition and manipulation of breaks is the basis of hip-hop music. They call the breaks the get down part. Mom was yelling at him to stop playing, he didn"t want to lose his groove so he was playing the record back and forth. Later, dj"s developed looping and scratching known as turntables. A judged competition between two or more dj"s. The dj battle is old as hip-hop.