[MUS 505] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (116 pages long!)

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Music
• Course: MUS 505
• Professor: Sean Bellaviti

Document Summary

Three perspectives: rhythmic focus, timbral and textural complexity, lyrical and musical extemporization and technological creativity, socially engaged, communicative, expressive; response to racism and oppression, commercial growth, multicultural and transnational, and complex and polysemic. Locus: centred in nyc, specifically the bronx, among african american, puerto. Rican and caribbean diaspora/descendant youth: mid 70s: area of significant economic depression, crime, and governmental neglect, identity: highly localized, especially in terms of neighbourhoods and communities ( crew , posse and gang) Cultural complex of hip hop: broader cultural expressive response to social situation within which rap is identified, expressive markers (pillars): graffiti, breakdancing, clothing, speech and music (including rap). Specifically, rap drew on the caribbean vocalizing associated with jamaican sound systems, african rhythmic patterns, rhythmic and blues and soul styles . Meaning: many and varied interpretations: product oriented: simple music and commercial fad; representative of dissolute black youth culture, expressing harsh, everyday experiences, process oriented: