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sound collage

A compositional technique created by Grandmaster Flash in which sound clips of recorded material are cut and pasted together.

Power Ballad

A type heavy metal song that featured a slow tempo, romantic lyrics and powerful guitar chords. "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" by Poison is a good example.

Indie Rock

After alternative rock reached the pop mainstream in the 1990s, indie rock continued as underground music; independent labels, college radio, and annual festivals played an important role in the indie scene. -Many indie bands recorded for small labels and did not seek mainstream attention, preferring to create music on their own terms. -Indie groups embraced their lack of access to good recording facilities and rejected elements of mainstream "professionalism" by opting for a "lo-fi" aesthetic; Pavement, Guided by Voices, and Elliott Smith had different approaches to lo-fi. -The variety of bands on the Merge label in the 1990s demonstrates the diversity of styles within indie rock. -Experimenting with sound was an important element of 1990s indie rock; Yo La Tengo and My Bloody Valentine both experimented with noise, volume, repetition, and droning. -The indie rock movement included more women's perspectives than mainstream rock; Liz Phair, Ani DiFranco, and the band Sleater-Kinney all made a mark in the mid-1990s.

Brian Eno

Eno's professional music career began in London when he became a founder member (1971-1973) of the glam/art rock band Roxy Music. Initially Eno did not appear on stage at their live shows, but operated the mixing desk, processing the band's sound with a VCS3 synthesiser and tape recorders, and singing backing vocals. He did, however, eventually appear on stage as a performing member of the group, usually flamboyantly costumed

LA Reid

He is founder and current co-chairman of Hitco Entertainment. He has served as the chairman and CEO of Epic Records and The Island Def Jam Music Group, the president and CEO of Arista Records. Reid was the founder and CEO of Hitco Music Publishing and the co-founder of LaFace Records with producing partner Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds.

Babyface Edmunds

He played keyboards in the light-funk and R&B group the Deele (which also included drummer Antonio "L.A." Reid, with whom he would later form a successful writing and producing partnership). One of his first major credits as a songwriter for outside artists came when he wrote the tune "Slow Jam" for the R&B band Midnight Star in 1983. The tune was on Midnight Star's 1983 double-platinum No Parking on the Dance Floor album, and while it never was a single, it received massive radio airplay and the song is still played on quiet storm radio stations.[citation needed] Babyface remained in the Deele until 1988, when both he and Reid left the group.

Rick Rubin

He started Def Jam Records in his NYU dorm room in 1982. He signed and/or produced such artists as the Beastie Boys, Run/DMC, and LL Cool J. He later started American Recordings and produced albums with Johnny Cash and Tom Petty to name a few.

MTV

Music Television Station that became a cultural happening in the 1980s, which has since been utilized by political groups to reach the youth vote.

Bob Geldof

Organized the "Band Aid" and "Live Aid" concerts for African hunger relief.

Kool Herc

Pioneering hip-hop DJ who first adapted the technique of "mixing" between two turntables to the hip-hop aesthetic.

Clear Channel

Publicly traded corporation that owns more than 1,200 radio stations, 39 television stations, 100,000 advertising billboards, and 100 live performance venues, ranging from huge amphitheaters to dance clubs, enabling them to present more than 70 percent of all live events nationwide.

Napster

Transformed PCs into servers for exchanging music files over the Internet

scratching

a DJ and turntablist technique of moving a vinyl record back and forth on a turntable to produce percussive or rhythmic sounds.

Riot Grrrl

an underground feminist hardcore punk movement that originally started in the early 1990s, in Washington, and the greater Pacific Northwest, It is a subcultural movement that combines feminist consciousness and punk style and politics. It is often associated with third-wave feminism, which is sometimes seen as its starting point.

Suge Knight

co-founded Death Row Records Hip Hop/West Coast Gangsta

rave

may either refer to the late 1980s/early 1990s genres of house, acid house and techno, the first genres of music in the world to be played at raves, or any other genre of electronic dance music that may be played at a rave.

Sampling

sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a sound recording in a different song or piece. The Beastie Boys were also one of the first groups to use digital sampling technology.