Mus 351 Quizzes

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Lindy hop:

-Energetic partner dance that used different styles, drawing from other references. -includes a lot of lifting -related to swing.

Which of the following figures was mentioned in the song "How We Gonna Make the Black Nation Rise?"

-MLK -Muhammed -Marcus Garvey

Which of the following methods did the city of New York use to discourage graffiti writers?

-great white fleet -????

A cross-fader is

a transitional slide control on a DJ mixer for fading in one input channel while fading out another

T/F: B-boying is highly choreographed

F

T/F: Dis (as in dis rap) is slang for district

F

T/F: The theremin is an early recording device

F (electronic musical instrument)

_______ is considered the inventor of scratching

Grand Wizard Theodore

loop

repeating section of sound material

punch-phrase

rhythmically inserting very short segments of sound over another record playing on the other turntable

scratch

rotating and applying pressure to a record back and forth against the needle to create a rhythmic pattern

A device that creates sounds electronically through the use of voltage-controlled amplifiers and filters is called a

synthesizer

Robert Moog is known for his work with

synthesizers

The way the melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic materials are combined in a composition is called

texture

Which government agency had a secret operation

the FBI

The most percussive or rhythmically complex section of a song is called

the break

slumlords who owned buildings in the South Bronx used which of the following tactics to make money

they refused to provide heat and water to tenants

What do the Black Spades, the Savage Nomads, and the Savage Skulls have in common?

they were all street gangs in the South Bronx

A musical phrase or pattern that repeats is called

ostinato, hook, riff,

What did the Savage Seven change their name to

Black Spades

______ was a radio DJ with a 'patter' style delivery who influenced early hip hop MCs

Jocko Henderson

The term merry-go-round is associated with which of the following figures

Kool Herc

Lady B is a radio DJ in

Philadelphia

syncopation

a placement of rhythmic stresses or accents where they wouldn't normally occur

Which of the following religions found "a fast following" in the ghettos of Kingston, Jamaica

Rastafari

Sylvia Robinson was the founder and owner of

Sugar Hill Records

T/F In music, rhythm is the systematic arrangement of musical sounds and silences, principally according to duration and periodic stress

T

T/F: "Planet Rock" influenced later musical genres such as house and trance

T

T/F: A sample is an excerpt from a musical recording that is used in another artist's recording

T

T/F: A tag is the written nickname of a graffiti writer

T

T/F: Melle Mel is the only member of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five to actually appear on the record "The Message."

T

T/F: The building of the Cross Bronx Expressway negatively impacted neighborhoods in the Bronx

T

Who is widely accepted as the first New York graffiti writer?

TAKI 183

Which of the following is NOT a theme in women's rap?

The difficulties of women in the workplace

What do MC Lyte, Queen Latifah, Erykah Badu, and Missy Elliot have in common?

They were introduced to the music business without the introduction of male rappers

What is the Roland TR808

a drum machine

Being known for one's graffiti throughout a whole city is known as

all-city

A jeli is

an African storyteller-musician

Which of the following was an epidemic in the South Bronx in the 1970s

arson

______ a secular, predominantly black American folk music of the 20th century

blues

To cover as many subway cars with graffiti as possible is known as

bombing

The song "It's Just Begun" was closely associated with

breaking

A performance practice in which a singer or instrumentalist makes a musical statement which is answered by another soloist, instrumentalist, or group is known as

call and response

Marking the record with a piece of tape or crayon to mark the return spot is called

clock theory -literally seeing record as a clock as it spins and then when needle (hand) reaches the mark you play it back

beat-juggling

creating a new rhythmical composition by using two records and manipulating the arrangements of the elements (drum sounds, etc.)

A song that is a hit in more than one segment of the music market

crossover

Who are Bobbly Seale and Huey Newton

founders of the Black Panther Party

Graffiti writing is a felony

if the damage exceeds $200

What is the subject matter of the song "Strange Fruit"?

lynching

_______ was a WWII invention which was put to civilian use in recording after the war

magnetic tape


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