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Selena

"The Queen of Tejano" • Began singing with her father's band at age 10 • 5 albums & 60+ million sold • Film & Television

West Coast Rap & G-Funk

- G-funk incorporates multi-layered and melodic synthesizers, slow hypnotic grooves, a deep bass, background female vocals, the extensive sampling of P-Funk tunes, and a high-pitched portamento saw wave synthesizer lead. -West coast rappers N.W.A. • Ice Cube Snoop Dog

Run the Jewels

- black lives matter - social discussion through lyrics

Madonna

-Professional dance turned singer. Paired dance friendly music with controversial lyrics and images. -Heavy synth use and electronic drum beats. -Glam rock influenced punk. -Like a virgin 1984 commercial success and a topic of critical discourse

Clear Channel Communications

1200 radio stations, 39 TV stations, 100,000 billboards, 100+ live performance venues with 70% of all live events in USA. enabled by 1990's deregulation.

Sony Walkman

1979 - Sonly introduced the first - originally the "sound about" - sold 200 million units. - by 1983 cassettes outsold vinyl records for the first time

Live Nation Entertainment

2009 merger of Live Nation and Ticketmaster. Biggest concert promoter + ticket retailer.

Grandmaster Flash

A Bajan-American hip hop recording artist and DJ. He is considered to be one of the pioneers of hip-hop DJing, cutting, and mixing. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007, becoming the first hip hop act to be honored.

Black Lives Matter

A"New"Civil RightsMovement - History of PoliceBrutality & Increased Militarization - Racism and International Human Rights - Persistence of Housing Inequality - Fear and Resilience Among Students of Color

Janelle Monáe

Black lives matter musician gets cut off at the today show

mp3

Compressed file format, allowing easy storage and transmission affects quality of sound (opposed to WAV and FLAC) MP3 players are now common, iPod in 2001

Prince

Early age started to preform in Minneapolis, influenced by a wide range. approx 75 songs per year in the 80s - creative control. - Purple rain

Who is Kool Herc and what major innovation did he bring to early hip-hop of the 1970s?

Isolaton of - "the break" Jamaican american dj who helped popularize hip-hop

YouTube

Its fu cking youtube. 2012 nielsen survey - 2/3s of US teens

Joey Grihalva

Joey Grihalva is a writer, producer and educator based in Milwaukee. He is currently working on his first book, an exploration of jazz, race, class, culture, hip-hop, and identity in America

MTV

Launched on August 1, 1981,[2] the channel originally aired music videos as guided by television personalities known as "video jockeys". In its early years, MTV's main target demographic was young adults, but today it is primarily towards teenagers, particularly high school and college students. MTV has toned down its music video programming significantly in recent years.

p2p file sharing

Limewire, Grooveshark, etc. allowed for easy sharing of music files

Starr/Waterman's Theme - Centers and peripheries

Mainstream and the Margins Mainstream music (Centers) - New York, Loss Angeles, Nashville Center of control over mass media money and influence Peripheries - influence the popular music scene from the margins. historically people who have not been involved in the mainstream indi music

What is MTV and how did it change the way music was promoted and consumed in the 1980s?

Music Television - innovating the music industry by introducing the music video. - Caused record companys to start spending more money to sell their records and make videos

The "Four Elements" of hip-hop

Rapping (MCs) • DJ (turntablism) • GraffiT Art & WriTng • Break Dancing (B-boys)

Kool Herc

a Jamaican-American DJ who is credited with originating hip hop music in the early 1970s in The Bronx, New York City. His playing of hard funk records of the sort typified by James Brown was an alternative both to the violent gang culture of the Bronx and to the nascent popularity of disco in the 1970s. Campbell began to isolate the instrumental portion of the record, which emphasized the drum beat—the "break"—and switch from one break to another.

Smart Studios

a recording studio located in Madison, Wisconsin. It was set up in 1983 by Butch Vig and Steve Marker to produce local bands. The studio produced bands such as Killdozer, The Smashing Pumpkins, L7, Tad and Nirvana.

Lauryn Hill

best known for being a member of the Fugees and for her critically acclaimed solo album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, which won numerous awards and broke several sales records. R&B soul neo soul hip hop folk reggae

Angie Swan

milwaukee based musician who moved out to LA and got big

Define the "Seattle Sound" of the late 1980s and early 1990s and explain how one artist and/or group that is associated with it either fits or doesn't fit that label.

seattle sound was also known as grunge. started in the mid to lat 80s but got popular and entered the mainstream in the 90s Nirvana is a good example of the grunge scene

Like soul music in the 1960s, how was salsa a product of its time (1970s) and place (New York City)?

with the cuban, dominican and puerto rican influence in NYC they neded their own sound. they were in ghettos and communities like the black people and had their own traditional sound mixed with the advancing world ideas that lead to a resurgence in salsa big b and like music

Since the 1980s, several technological innovations fundamentally altered the ways that popular music has been produced, sold, and heard in the United States. Describe three of these innovations. What was the effect that each innovation had on the way that music is produced, sold, and/or heard?

Cassette Tapes Sony Walk & Boomboxes MTV - cable tv allowed for specialized channels - Music video MP3 youtube

Seattle Sound

Grunge (sometimes referred to as the Seattle sound) is a subgenre of alternative rock and a subculture that emerged during the mid-1980s in the Pacific Northwest U.S. state of Washington, particularly in Seattle and nearby towns. The early grunge movement revolved around Seattle's independent record label Sub Pop and that region's underground music scene. By the early 1990s its popularity had spread,

Starr/Waterman's Theme - Music and Identity

- as you grow up different influences guide your musical tastes. - in society we tend to group with themes that are similar and alike - we learn to be human, and music is an important medium to formulate and express our identity. - influenced by family, parents/siblings help grow musical values - reject these as you age and start to form social groups, conform to whats popular around you. - look back on childhood music with nostalgia

Queen Latifah

-signed with Tommy Boy Records in 1989 -released her debut album All Hail the Queen the same year, featuring the hit single "Ladies First". Her second album, Nature of a Sista (1991), was her final album with Tommy Boy Records. She has long been considered one of hip-hop's pioneer feminists. Queen Latifah received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2006. Latifah's work in music, film and television has earned her a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe award, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, two NAACP Image Awards, an Academy Award nomination and sales of over two million records.

Fania Records

A New York based record label founded by Dominican-born composer and bandleader Johnny Pacheco and Italian-American lawyer Jerry Masucci in 1964. ania is known for its promotion of what has become known as Salsa music. The label started out as a small venture, but gained popularity after the success of its first official record, Pacheco's "Cañonazo", leading to the expansion of its talent base.

Rubén Blades

A Panamanian singer, songwriter, actor, musician, activist, and politician, performing musically most often in the Afro-Cuban, salsa, and Latin jazz genres. Blades has composed dozens of musical hits, the most famous of which is "Pedro Navaja", a song about a neighborhood thug who is killed by a very attractive street walker he actually knows

Drum Machine

A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument designed to imitate the sound of drums, cymbals, other percussion instruments and often basslines. - Linn LM-1 Drum Computer released in 1980 was the first drum machine to use digital samples. It also featured revolutionary rhythmic concepts such as swing factors, shuffle, accent, and real-time programming, all of which have since rooted themselves in beat box technology. - Its distinctive sound almost defines 1980s pop, and it can be heard on hundreds of hit records from the era - Only about 500 were ever made Prince bought one of the very first LM-1s and used it on nearly all of his most popular albums, including 1999 and Purple Rain. -Roland TR-808 was popularized by the masses and can still be heard to this day.

Salsa

A popular dance music that initially arose in New York City during the 1960s. Salsa is the product of various musical genres including the Cuban son montuno, guaracha, cha cha chá, mambo, and to a certain extent bolero, and the Puerto Rican bomba and plena.

"Thriller"

A song recorded by American singer Michael Jackson, composed by Rod Temperton, and produced by Quincy Jones. A 14-minute video showing Jackson in a horror-themed performance premiered on November 14, 1983. It was first shown on MTV on December 2, 1983

Tito Puente

American musician, songwriter and record producer. Puente is often credited as "The Musical Pope", "El Rey de los Timbales" (The King of the Timbales) and "The King of Latin Music". He is best known for dance-oriented mambo and Latin jazz compositions that endured over a 50-year career. He and his music appear in many films.

Name two of the panelists on our Milwaukee Music Panel, describing what they do (musically or otherwise) in Milwaukee and compare/contrast their views on the state of Milwaukee's music scenes. Where do they agree and/or disagree? How so?

Angie Swan and Joey Grihalva - Guitarist/Bassist/Vox Keys/Programmer - Music writer and educator Agree that they both left milwaukee and came back to a different city Explosion in milwaukee music scene

Johanna Rose

Musician, vocalist, artist, songwriter Johanna Rose has thrown her heart into her greatest love, music.

auto-tune

Software made to polish recorded perfomances (thus generating criticism) Later used as an intentional effect

Starr/Waterman's Theme - Technology and the music business

Starts with sheet music, writers and composers, the marketing team and the publishers and preforming of it by big stars and consumption by the masses. moved to

Afrika Bambaataa

a Jamaican-American disc jockey from the South Bronx, New York. He is notable for releasing a series of genre-defining electro tracks in the 1980s that influenced the development of hip hop culture. Afrika Bambaataa is one of the originators of breakbeat DJing and is respectfully known as "The Godfather" and "Amen Ra of Hip Hop Kulture", as well as the father of electro funk.

Alternative rock

a genre of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s. In this instance, the word "alternative" refers to the genre's distinction from mainstream rock music. The term's original meaning was broader, referring to a generation of musicians unified by their collective debt to either the musical style or simply the independent, D.I.Y. ethos of punk rock, which in the late 1970s laid the groundwork for alternative music.[4] At times, "alternative" has been used as a catch-all description for music from underground rock artists that receives mainstream recognition

Nirvanna

an American rock band formed by singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington, in 1987. Nirvana went through a succession of drummers, the longest-lasting being Dave Grohl, who joined in 1990. Despite releasing only three full-length studio albums in their seven-year career, Nirvana has come to be regarded as one of the most influential and important alternative bands in history. Though the band dissolved in 1994 after the suicide of Cobain, their music maintains a popular following and continues to influence modern rock and roll culture.

Michael Jackson

an American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, actor, and philanthropist. Called the "King of Pop", his contributions to music, dance, and fashion along with his publicized personal life made him a global figure in popular culture for over four decades. He began his solo career in 1971. In the early 1980s, Jackson became a dominant figure in popular music. His music videos, including those of "Beat It", "Billie Jean", and "Thriller" from his 1982 album Thriller, are credited with breaking racial barriers and transforming the medium into an art form and promotional tool. The popularity of these videos helped bring the television channel MTV to fame.


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