Music 351- Midterm

A cross-fader is:.

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

Lindy hop:

Energetic partner dance that used different styles, drawing from other references. It included a lot of lifting and is related to swing.

B-boying is highly choreographed.

False

The theremin is an early recording device.

False

Funky 4 + 1 was:

Funky 4 +1 (sugar Hill records)-first hip hop group to have a female MC and they were the first hip hop group to perform on a national television show (SNL 1981). The song features an interpolation of the song "Rescue Me" by A Taste of Honey. MC's take turns and come together over instrumental beats

Backspinning is credited to which DJ?

Grandmaster Flash

A DJ technique in which the DJ rhythmically inserts very short segments of sound over another record playing on the other turntable is called:

punch-phrase

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

rhythm

punch-phrase

rhythmically insertimg 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

Which of the following was NOT one of the industries for which people migrated north to work?

television broadcasting

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

texture

Which government agency had a secret operation to undermine the Black Panthers?

the FBI

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

the break

According to Jeff Chang, 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

According to Jeff Chang, which of the following was an epidemic in the South Bronx in the 1970s:

Arson

A regular pulse that lasts throughout a piece of music.

Beat

What did the Savage Seven change their name to?

Black Spades

______________a secular, predominantly black American folk music of the 20th century.

Blues

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

Kool Herc

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

MLK,Garvey, Muhammed

In music the arrangement of rhythms in a repetitive pattern of strong and weak beats is known as:

Meter

A musical phrase or pattern that repeats is called:

Ostinato (riff, hook)

syncopation

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

Which of the following religions found—as Jeff Chang notes—"a fast following" in the ghettos of Kingston, Jamaica:

Rastafari

According to the Barnett article, who is widely accepted as the first New York graffiti writer?

TAKI 183

The movement of African-Americans from the south to the north in the first half of the twentieth century is called:

The Great Migration

loop

a repeating section of sound material

Who invented the phonograph?

Thomas Edison

_______________invented the phonograph.

Thomas Edison

"Planet Rock" influenced later musical genres such as house and trance.

True

A sample is an excerpt from a musical recording that is used in another artist's recording.

True

Melle Mel is the only member of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five to actual appear on the record "The Message."

True

People migrated north for both economic and social reasons.

True

The building of the Cross Bronx Expressway negatively impacted neighborhoods in the Bronx.

True

To 'freestyle' means to improvise.

True

What is the Roland TR808?

a drum machine

Which of the following are examples of the Jamaican influence on early hip hop?

all of these answers

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

all these answers

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

all-city

A Jeli is:

an African storyteller-musician

According to Jeff Chang, which of the following was an epidemic in the South Bronx in the 1970s:

arson

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

bombing

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

beat-juggling

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

A______________instrumental-track version of a popular track, often placed on the flip side of a single, consisting of bass and drum.

dub

'Race records' were marketed to white audiences.

false

Who are Bobby Seale and Huey Newton?

founders of the Black Panther Party

According to the Barnett article, graffiti writing is a felony:

if the damage exceeded $200.00

A repeating section of sound material is known as:

loop

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

magnetic tape