mus 1600 test 4
What successful album by Dr. Dre sold over 3 million copies, introduced his protege Snoop Doggy Dogg and dropped in 1992?
The Chronic
What album was Doo Wop (That Thing) on and when was it released?
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, 1998
Hip hop was not just music; what else did it include?
distinctive styles of visual art (graffiti), dance (breakdancing and freak), dress and speech
Where were the origins of hip hop/rap?
economically depressed South Bronx, NYC
Why was South Bronx a "symbol of America's woes"?
federal budget cuts caused a severe decline in low-income housing and social services for the residents of America's inner cities during the mid-70s - South Bronx was experiencing this
What musical inspirations did Prince's recorded output encompass?
funk music, guitar-based rock n' roll, urban folk songs, new wave, jazz and psychedelic rock
What are the lyrics of Doo Wop (That Thing) critical of?
gangsta culture
What did the recordings of N.W.A.'s album Straight Outta Compton express?
gangsta lifestyle, saturated with images of sex and violence straight out of the prison toast tradition
What revived Aerosmith's career?
remaking their song "Walk This Way" with Run-DMC
What is G-Funk?
style of West Coast gangsta rap
Which artist formed his own independent record label Death Row/Interscope after dropping out of N.W.A.?
Dr. Dre
Which two rappers left Death Row Records after Tupac and Biggie's deaths and Suge Knight's incarceration?
Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg
What band did Lauryn Hill begin with?
the Fugees
Who recorded "Rapper's Delight"?
the Sugarhill Gang
Who wrote and recorded "Who Am I (What's My Name)?" and when?
Snoop Dogg, 1993
Who wrote "The Message"?
Sylvia Robinson, Ed Fletcher, and Melle Mel
Which artist writes all of her songs herself or in collaboration with others and because of this is able o keep credits for them and keep much of the money from her sales?
Taylor Swift
Who wrote "Blank Space"?
Taylor Swift and Max Martin
What does the song "Blank Space" satirize?
Taylor Swift's romantic life
How many Grammy awards did Lauryn Hill win for her solo album?
5
Who was hip hop forged by?
African American, Puerto Rican and Caribbean American youth
What song is sampled in "Who Am I (What's My Name)"?
Atomic Dog by George Clinton
What similarities do Run-DMC and Beastie Boys share?
Both had hit albums in 1986 produced by Rick Rubin; all from middle class families, not lower class like many of the time; both groups crossed over with rap-rock
What movie helped popularize hip hop and showed young American kids break dancing?
Breakin' (1984)
What happened with Prince's music producing after he separated from Warner Brothers in 1995?
By the late 90s he was releasing his own music exclusively on his NPG label and became the first artist to sell his own music via the Internet
Who was Mario "Suge" Knight?
CEO of LA-based Death Row Records. He was incarcerated for attacking to rappers in a Las Vegas casino after already being on parole for a previous assault attempt
How does gangsta rap express American culture in both good and bad ways?
Creative energy, regional diversity and technological acumen, but also shows an obsession with guns, violence and wealth as well as long-standing traditions of racism, homophobia and sexism
When was "When Doves Cry" recorded?
1984
What album is "Blank Space" on?
1989 (2014)
When did hip hop emerge?
1970s
When was "Rapper's Delight" recorded?
1979
What song was sampled in Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight"?
Good Times by Chic
Who recorded "The Message" and when?
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, 1982
Who created the technique called "scratching"?
Grandmaster Flash's protege Theodore
Who were the members of N.W.A.?
Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E and later DJ Yella and MC Ren
When did hip hop begin to go mainstream?
In the mid-80s - hip hop began to draw in young, white males and become increasingly profitable for record companies
What was so controversial about music borrowing?
It was controversial legally and artistically - some people considered it stealing for copyright reasons and others thought it was just unoriginal to use someone else's song
Who wrote "Walk This Way"?
Joe Perry and Steven Tyler
Who wrote and recorded "Doo Wop (That Thing)"?
Lauryn Hill
Who was the most commercially successful grunge band and brought grunge into the mainstream in the early 90s?
Nirvana
Who wrote and recorded "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and when?
Nirvana, 1991
Which two rappers were shot to death and had recorded prophetic raps that ended with the narrator speaking from the grave just before their deaths?
Notorious B.I.G. (Biggie Smalls) and Tupac Shakur
Which artist placed 9 albums in the Top 10 between 1982-1992?
Prince
Who wrote, produced and recorded "When Doves Cry"?
Prince
What was the name of the movie that Prince starred in that was a semi autobiography about his life?
Purple Rain
Who was "Bodysnatchers" written and recorded by and when?
Radiohead, 2007
Which record popularized the use of the term "rapper" as an equivalent of MC?
Rapper's Delight
What is grunge?
a type of Alternative rock in Pacific NW, especially Seattle in the 80s-90s
What are some themes in the lyrics of the grunge genre?
alienation, anxiety, apathy, cynicism and many taboo topics such as drug use, depression, incest and suicide
What controversial public image did Prince have?
an exuberant and graphic eroticist
What important role did MCs play?
controlling crowd behavior at increasingly large dances where DJs performed and soon became more important celebrities than the DJs themselves; MCs are the ancestors of contemporary rappers
What type of music did Taylor Swift begin with?
country pop
What did Kool Herc do that was of particular significance to the hip hop genre?
he first adapted the disco DJ's technique of "mixing" between two turntables to create smooth transitions between records to the hip hop aesthetic, using popular records by artists such as James Brown and mixing them into other dance records; he was also one of the first DJs to recite rhyming phrases over the breakbeats produced on his turntables
How did Grandmaster Flash begin his career?
he was a DJ in the mid-70s, spinning records at block parties, gym dances and dance clubs
Where did music borrowing in hip hop begin?
it began with the use of records by DJs, but digital sampling allow for more complex forms of borrowing
What happened when "Darling Nikki" was released?
it was the first recording ever to receive a Parental Advisory warning from the Parents' Music Resource Center (PMRC) and was attacked by Trinity Broadcasting Network and preacher Jimmy Swaggart as "pornographic" and "satanic"
Why did Nirvana break up?
lead singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain committed suicide in 1994 at the age of 27, likely due to the pressures of being an outsider thrust into fame and limelight along with having a tumultuous history with drug use
What is MC an abbreviation for?
master of ceremonies
What was the countermovement push-back against country-pop called?
neo-traditional country
Who recorded "Walk This Way" and when?
originally recorded by Aerosmith in 1975, remade by Aerosmith and Run-DMC in 1986
What types of music was grunge influenced by?
punk and heavy metal
What hip hop elements are in "Walk This Way"?
rapped verses, scratching, drum machine
What is Generation X?
the generation between baby boomers and millennials, had a reputation of being lazy and not driven at all
Why was the coordination of publicity surrounding the release of recordings so crucial?
the profitability of the music industry depended on the sales generated by the relatively limited number of multiplatinum recordings
What transformed from a medium for playing recorded sound into a playable musical instrument?
the turntable
What was so different about the payment method for buying Radiohead's album In Rainbows?
they let people pay whatever they wanted to for the album because people were pirating their music anyway and they hated their old record company EDI
How was alternative music in the 90s tied to a perception of authenticity/integrity vs. commercialism?
they were averse to the mainstream, very anti-commercialism and interested in political movements such as environmentalism, abortion rights and AIDS activism
Why was gangsta rap so controversial?
they were singing about gang violence in a way that was bragging rather than scaring people away from that lifestyle like the song "The Message" was
How did DJs in early hip hop make something new out of something old?
with the modification of disco and funk records
When did Prince get his musical and commercial breakthrough?
with the release of his third album Dirty Mind in 1980
