Rock Final

Another Brick in the Wall Pt 2

Pink Floyd 1979 classic rock/prog-rock children used sounds of a schoolyard at the end

1999 GO OVER AUDIO

Prince 1982 pop, with funk/soul influence Musical Features: Party-like atmosphere: influence from Parliament Funkadelic Instrumentation: synthesizers and other electronic instruments Apocalyptic lyrics Backup Musical Group: The Revolution schizophrenic intro theremin used female voice integral to song lack of guitar

When Doves Cry GO OVER AUDIO

Prince 1984 pop, with funk/soul influence Electronic voice in beginning and background Verse and Chorus soundsimilar Ends with repeated lyrics Background vocal is Prince at a different pitch and tone

Night of the Living Baseheads

Public Enemy 1988 hip-hop/rap Opening: Khalid Abdul Muhammad: sample from a speech Other samples: James Brown, Aretha Franklin, David Bowie, Kool & the Gang, the Temptations, the Bar-Kays, the Average White Band, Sly & the Family Stone, Run-DMC, the Boogie Boys and, Kurtis Blow

Idioteque style??????????/

Radiohead 2000 electronica/alternative Instruments: electronic, more experimental Form: Transformed Verse/Chorus; extended instrumental sections, and samples transformed Lyrics: climate change—CD book contains a list of "Ice Melt Around the World"

reggae

Reggae—a mix of Caribbean folk music and American rhythm and blues Started in Kingston, Jamaica—then to US ca. 1973 Two instrumental musicians: Bob Marley and Jimmy Cliff Reggae influenced Rock musicians Rap through the practice of "Dub"—verbal/musical performance Simultaneous, interlocking rhythmic patterns (riddim) Bass and drums (riddim pair) Relatively slower tempo Lyrics: social injustice and racism

glam rock

Rock—Spectacle, Narrative structure with eclectic music; new technologies david bowie dress up, tell big stories gender and sexual ambiguity

Its like that

Run- D.M.C. 1984 hip-hop/rap Lyrics: Description of social and economic conditions, but with hopefulness and a positive perspective Beats: drum machine, with lots of reverb Texture: Relatively thin and simple

Where are U Now

Skrillex and Diplo 2015 electronica/EDM Based around a sound file demo by Justin Bieber New Song: "Where Are Ü Now" Not simply a "cover" and not a simple sample EDM style with use of Bieber song.

I Want to be your joey Ramone

Sleater-Kinney 1996 grunge/punk

Come on! Feel the Illinoise!

Sufjan Stevens 2005 indie rock/alternative Lyrics: About Illinois and Chicago; part of a concept album; Ironic Rhythm: Uses a quintuple meter; "happy" sounding but with ironic detachment; Instruments: Horns, Winds, guitars, piano, drums, voices, chimes; opening piano refers to the "Charlie Brown" theme. Form: Modified verse/chorus—multi-sectional; Complex and "progressive" Overall texture: Changing and complex textures; bright and busy with multiple layers,

Rapper's Delight

Sugarhill Gang 1979 hip-hop/rap Instruments: Uses rhythm track from Chic's "Good Times," a Disco Hit Lyrics: Braggadocio, description of dance movements, and humorous stories. Vocal Quality: rapidly spoken words Characteristics: very upbeat and funky, made to dance to

Psycho Killer

Talking Heads 1977 new wave guitar, rhythm Lyrics: The thoughts of a psycho killer (serial killer); Occasional text in French, then the bridge is all in French. Vocal Quality: high-pitched, spoken lyrics with long screeches during the chorus Characteristics: Every beat is emphasized by the drum. Guitar treatment evokes early Rock and Roll sounds; simple harmonic. The instruments build up an intricate yet transparent texture. The ending is a free section, almost a free improv.

Wouldnt it be nice

The Beach Boys 1966 Rock/Pop two accordions, two pianos, trumpet, saxophone, 12-string mandolin, electric bass, a double bass very optimistic

Norwegian Wood

The Beatles 1965 Rock instrument : sitar (indian classical music)--> NOT usually in rock music- shows that they were experimenting, to make rock and roll more artistically advanced

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

The Beatles 1967 psychadelic Rock Most of the song is in simple triple metre (3/4 time), but the chorus is in 4/4 time. key shifts

1969

The Stooges punk (proto-punk) Rock and Roll rhythm section, electric guitar Lyrics: Disaffected youth; high unemployment. Expresses how the country is in a rut and there is nothing to do anymore. Vocal Quality: Speaking character, R & B-like growls Characteristics: few harmonic changes (static harmony) and overall "noisy" character.

I'm waiting for the man

The velvet underground 1967 avant-garde rock Ironic rendition of 50s Rock and Roll sound: simple chord alternations, repeated notes in piano, simple texture -Vocal features: flat affect, little pitch change

Eruption

Van Halen 1978 metal guitar solo with some rhythm no singing Instruments: Guitar Lyrics: None Vocal Quality: None Characteristics: As a purely instrumental guitar solo, "Eruption" references classical composers like Vivaldi and Bach in its composition. It uses special techniques such as string bending, two-handed tapping, and vibrato with a "whammy" bar. Special techniques: string bending, two-handed tapping, vibrato with "whammy" bar. Classical References: Vivaldi, Violin Concerto in A minor, J.S. Bach, Prelude in C Major Also, reference to Nicolo Paganini, violin virtuoso

new wave

Wave—Reactionary but more complex; complex irony; new technologies david byrn and talking heads often times has this more irony. like lyrics and tone of music dont match(psycho killer) divo

Cant feel my face

Weend 2015 pop, rap

subculture

a group of people who hung out together and defied themselves from the main culture

slam dancing and mosh pit

associated with hardcore rock

can madonna justify madonna

barbara grizzuti harrison "Is Madonna a feminist? Gimme a break. Do pigs fly?" (p. 251) "As long as Madonna wears masks—and confuses the person with the image—there is no real person there (and no real risk)." (p. 253)

Reflections on progrressive rock

bill bruford Cultural and Technological Factors Leading to Progressive Rock in the U.K. : Middle-class, white (WASP) English youth, Anglican Church, the organ and the Hammond Organ, New Recording and Playback Technologies p. 160: "Added to this was a confidence in things English and an increasing advocacy of the romantic and pastoral representing the softer or more feminine side of progressive rock." Sing "in English, not American" "The Holy Grail of all this seemed to be the production of a unified art work in which the visual motifs, and verbal expression are inextricably linked to produce a single coherent artistic vision." p. 160 Progressive rock "embodied the counter-cultural idea of protesting the soulless bureaucracy that was squeezing any trace of spiritual life out of Western cultures, while simultaneously suggesting an ideal society in which technology and nature, past and future, matriarchal and patriarchal social values could be harmoniously interwoven."

hip hop and rap

brooklyn, disco, MC, a lot is sampled, with synthesizers and drum machines, so you dont need a band

heartland rock

bruce springsteen

madonna-finally, a real feminist

camille paglia "Madonna is the true feminist. She exposes the puritanism and suffocating ideology of American feminism...Madonna has taught young women to be fully female and sexual while still exercising total control over their lives." (p. 250)

the art of the hard rock lifestyle

david lee roth

where have all the rock stars gone

david shumway Reflecting on the death of James Brown: James Brown "was not only the inventor of funk and th Godfather of Soul; he was also Soul Brother No. 1, a leader about whom Look magazine could ask on its cover, 'Is this the most important black man in America?' Today there is no popular musician, black or white, about whom something similar might be said." p. 349 Why? New technologies for listening—"Ipod" Fragmentation into niche cultures Resulting in "the decline of a genuine mass audience" Hip Hop "is arguably the last great innovation in popular music, the successor to ragtime, jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock 'n' roll.....Hip-hop also attracted a large audience of young white listeners, but it did not come to dominate public consciousness the way its predecessors had." p. 352

the subculture of british punk

dick hebdige

producers

george matrin, kanye started as one, diplo know that they are really important to musical outome of recording, expecially when recording comes first, and performances follow

hip hop nation

greg tate Establishes Rap within the tradition of Black music from the Classic Blues to Scratching and Sampling p. 246: "The urge to snap, crack, jone, boast, toast, to stay forever anal, adolescent and absurdist—to talk much, shit, in other words and create new slanguage in the process—is what keeps the oral tradition's chuckle juices flowing through the the rap pipeline. ....Rap keeps alive the lineage of juke-joint jive novelty records that began with the first recorded black music—so-called classic blues."

world music and world beat

heavy influence from other cultures paul simon was influenced from south african musicians bob marley

Electronic (Digital) Music

including electronica and EDM (used to be called idm)

alternative and indie rock

indie: people who dont produce with record lables, they want to do with out: sufjan stevens alternative, used to apply to anything besides hip hop, dont worry about it

Run to the Hills

iron Maiden 1982 heavy metal intense guitar solo midway

roll over guitar heroes: synthesizers are here

jon young

singer/songwriters

joni mitchell and carole king

feminism amplified

kim france p. 287 "After a while I understood that it didn't matter that my generation had no Gloria Steinems, Germaine Greers, or even Nancy Fridays or Erica Jongs. Because we have the Breeders, PJ Harvey, Liz Phair, [Alanis] Morisette, Courtney Love, Veruca Salt, Joan Osborn, Elastica, Tori Amos, and Tracy Bonham." p. 287 "Furthermore, girls who love music but had been too intimidated to pick up instruments—having somehow internalized the information that one had to possess some special boy gene in order to get behind a drum set—were inspired by Nirvana's punk-rock do-it-yourself ethos. 'People who couldn't play anyway—boys—were doing it, and once that opened up, there was no reason not be a girl and do it,' says [Liz] Phair..." p. 290, Kim France--quoting Liz Phair "I heard a lot of men saying that they were listening to my album because someone told them they should, then one day they suddenly heard the words and it flipped them out....They all expressed this powerful feeling of being both fired at and caught..."

metallica vs. napster

lars ulrich Napster—a peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing service p. 322 "Make no mistake, Metallica is not anti-technology. When we made our first album, the majority of sales were in the vinyl record format. By the late 1980s, cassette sales accounted for over 50% of the market. Now, the compact disc dominates. If the next format is a form of digital downloading from the Internet with distribution and manufacturing savings passed on to the American consumer, then of course, we will embrace that format too. But how can we embrace a new format and sell our music for a fair price when someone, with a few lines of code, and no investment costs, creative input or marketing expenses, simply gives it away? How does this square with the level playing field of the capitalist system?"

why dont we call it punk

legs mcneil and gillian mccain "I hated most rock & roll, because it was about lame hippie stuff, and there really wasn't anyone describing our lives - which was McDonalds, beer, and TV reruns." "But 'punk!'—I loved it, because it meant to me a derisory word for a young, no-count piece a shit. And then from [William] Burrough's Junky...and there's two young punks." (James Grauerholz)

sound editing software, including garage band

load sound onto computer software and edit it

the death of sampling

mark kemp

POP

meant to have a very broad appeal (madonna, michael jackson)

hardcore

more intense version of punk with more distortion, louder sound, and social commentary

rock aestheticsc and the music of the world

motti regev "The uses and appropriations of rock by musicians and audiences around the world are far from homogenous.....[But] The sameness of meaning is basically one: rock music is used to declare a 'new'—modern, contemporary, young, often critical-oppositional--sense of local identity, as opposed to older, traditional, conservative forms of that identity." p. 293 "Hybridity. Very different, in this regard, is the position of music scenes in which rock elements are selectively adapted and mixed with traditional-local style to produce hybrids." p. 296

synthesizers, drum machines

move from guitars to electronic instruments starts getting used with early progressive rock people a keyboard like instruments that allowed you to produce electronically generated sound drum machine: machine that sounds like a drum

MTV

music TV started in 80s, then made videos for it to promote their songs

CBGB's

music venue in lower part of manhattan, where a lot of people got started important because of lot of PUNK artists got their start there(ramones, etc)

industrial

nin-inch -nails caused like that because of quality of sound: a lot of distortion

mashup

"the great album" --> danger mousemade possible through digital sound editing to mash different songs together

disco

70s dance music feeds to hip hop early hip-hop starts to sample disco

Verses from the Abstract

A Tribe Called Quest 1991 rap connecting with jazz and other musical genres Musical Characteristics Verbal: Call out to people and circumstances; Female Backup Voice—sung style Musical: Slower tempo; jazz-like guitar and drums; Bass—Ron Carter: flexible and improvisational; follows the vocal line often

Confessions of a Gay Rocker

Adam Block Main Points: The relation of Gay culture to Rock and Roll The androgyny and sexual ambiguity of several Rock and Roll stars of the 50s and 60s David Bowie Little Richard Mick Jagger p. 181 "Rock was more than the soundtrack of my youth. It was a shared secret language that linked me to every other fan. It was unnerving and invigorating: the sound of lust and revolt, passion and humor—a public triumph over my private fears and aspirations. The problem was that rock, for all its daring celebrations, stopped short at the ultimate taboo: Boys don't kiss boys. That had me spooked...."

Biz MArkie Case

Affected sampling practice: Must acknowledge and get prior permission Musicians: obscured samples or got obscure sample

1990s

Alternative Music on MTV—what groups were "MTV-friendly" Metal Pop Stars—Springsteen, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Prince

Rehab

Amy Winehouse 2006 Styles: Blues, R & B, Rock and Roll (early) Lyrics: R&B influenced; references to Ray Charles and other influential musicans; "Rehab" as the new blues topic; Winehouse has a deep, Blues-like voice Rhythm:Blues-inflected rhythm; medium tempo; Instruments:Electric Keyboard; Horns, bari saxophone, drums, guitars, chimes, strings Form: Blues form; Overall texture: Melody/Accompaniment texture, with various instruments coming in for backup; emphasis on the voice

new digital technologies in the 1980s

Analog becomes Digital Analog—continuous recording of sound on magnetic tape Digital: sampling of sound waves, converted into numbers Conversion of numbers into analog wave forms Digital Compact Disc: CDs Development of digital technologies to produce sound: drum machines sequencers samplers synthesizers—devices to "synthesize" musical sounds electronically

The SOunds of Science

Beastie Boys 1989 hip hop/rap

Stayin' Alive

Beegees 1977 disco vocals are male but in very high pitch Instruments: guitar, bass, drums, keyboards (including synthesizer) Lyrics: About survival in the big city Vocal Quality: Very high-pitched falsetto Characteristics: Dancing music. Has a funky feel in the bass.

Hold Up

Beyonce 2016 R&B/pop samples

visual album

Beyonce (Lemonade) every single song on album has music video becoming more frequent now

Unravel

Bjork 1997 electronica

Paranoid

Black Sabbath 1970 metal bass, electric guitar, rhythm section electric guitar solo in middle Lyrics: Speaks about life problems Vocal Quality: high-pitched *male vocals typical of Heavy Metal* Characteristics: Repetitive form, with prominent sections for riff-based instrumentals. Guitars are dominant with a repeated guitar riff. Contains distortion, power chords, and a insistent, repetitive bass. Musical Features: Guitars: Dominant and repeated lead guitar riff; distortion; power chords; insistent, repetitive bass Vocals: high pitched; lyrics about life problems Rhythm: forward, driving Form: Repetitive, prominent sections for riff-based instrumentals

Concrete Jungle

Bob Marley and the Wailers 1973 reggae starts off with an unpolished sound vocals are off in the distance drums are quiet and reserved, primarily used to keep pace Simultaneous, interlocking rhythmic patterns (riddim) Bass and drums (riddim pair) Relatively slower tempo Lyrics: social injustice

Born in the USA

Bruce Springsteen 1984 heartland rock about vietnam war veterans high pitched voices long, drawn out lyrics vocals: rought, almost screaming

It's Too Late

Carole King 1971 singer/songwriter minor key

heavy metal

Commercial Peak in the mid-1980s Guitar Centric Overwhelmingly male fanbase Musical Virtuosity Performativity and Spectacle Why Heavy Metal? Heavy Metal--1828 Webster Dictionary: "large guns, carrying balls of a large size" Oxford English Dictionary: "a man of heavy metal" was powerful and daunting. 21st Century: in chemistry and metallurgy: "a group of elements and toxic compounds. Heavy: important or significant Heavy Metals: uranium and nuclear weapons Precedents and Proto-Metal Rolling Stones Led Zeppelin Guitar Virtuosity: Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton The Sound: Power Chords—open harmonies (root and fifth) Complex Rhythmic patterns--fast drum patterns High-pitched, male vocals Prominent Guitar Riffs Lyrical Mysticism Classical Music Figures: from Baroque Music First explicit metal bands: in uk, black sabbath and deep purple

sub-culture

DIck Hebdige -Style as intentional communication-Subculture formations--fans-Bricolage-Subversion

What more can i say GO OVER MUSIC

Dangermouse 2004 mashup, so form of electronica

Rock 'N' Roll Suicide

David Bowie 1972 glam rock doesnt introduce rhythm section until later

Holiday In cambodia

Dead Kennedys 1980 *hardcore* big instrumental solo in beginning Instruments: Guitar, Bass, Drums Lyrics: Explicit lyrics detailing hatred for ignorant and rich people who think they understand the plight of poor, urban ethnic people Vocal Quality: Low, Deep voice Characteristics: Fast, repetitive guitar riffs

Limerent Death

Dillinger Escape PLane 2016 mathcore

metals

Extend and transform blues-based and virtuosic guitar music of the 60s; cultural commentary, spectacle; new technologies

Killing Me Softly with His Song

Fugees 1996 reggae/soul/hip-hop Name: "Re—fugee" Building off of negative references in the 1990s to Haitian-Americans Musical Features: -Vocal styles: soul, soft rapping, reference to classical Indian singing -Music: laid-back beat; Reggae influences—beat and bass -Drums: jazz-inflected -Sample: synthesized sitar--Tribe Called Quest, "Bonita Applebum"

"On the Beatles"

George Martin "If I suggested a particular complicated chord or harmony to them and they didn't know it, I would go and play it on the piano and say: 'Look, this kind of thing.' Then they would get their guitars and start trying to find the same notes on them." "The next song we recorded was 'When I'm Sixty-Four'; that was much simpler. It was the kind of vaudeville tune which Paul occasionally came up with, and he said he wanted 'a kind of tooty sound'. So I scored it for two clarinets and a bass clarinet." p. 60 Sergeant Pepper---"...but when we had finished it, Paul said, 'Why don't we make the album as though the Pepper band really existed, as though Sergeant Pepper was making the record."

The Message

Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5 1982 hip-hop/rap Instruments: Electronic Rhythm track Lyrics: Talks about the difficulty of life as an inner city resident. "It's like a jungle sometimes / it makes me wonder how I keep from going under" Vocal Quality: Rhythmic delivery, with emphasis on certain words and timely pauses Characteristics: One of the first prominent hip hop song to describe social issues.

alternative and its rise

Home Recording capabilities: new digital technologies A DIY for creating AND recording Against corporate/musical centralization of musical value Some bands/groups that could be considered Alternative Nirvana, Pearl Jam, R.E.M. Sonic Youth, Green Day, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tracy Chapman, Phish, Alanis Morissette, Dave Matthews Band, Ani De Franco

disco!!disco! four critics address the musical question

Jon Young Cateforis, p. 163: "Disco's popularity ensured that it was instantly polarizing, especially to numerous rock fans who saw disco's orchestrated and synthesized style of dance music as the antithesis to rock music's 'naturalized' mode of authentic expression." "..disco is the first pop music in a long while with a multiracial appeal....Disco, however is sung, produced, danced and listened to by whites and black (as well as Latins, but that a more complicated case." "...disco is the first pop music with an openly gay component. It originated in the urban gay subculture and thetrendsetters and taste-makers of disco continue to be gay....a space that includes both straight and gay."

Both Sides Now

Joni Mitchell 1967 Folk Rock/singer/songwriter major key (F#) soft rhythm section

Mortan Man

Kendrick Lamar 2015 hip-hop/progressive concept album Samples: "I Get No Eye for Black," Houston Person, 1977 "Mommy, What's a Gravedigga," Gravedigga 1994 Mats Nileskar Interview with Tupac Shakur Lyrics: Mark Anthony Spears, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Stephen Bruner (Thundercat), Kendrick Lamar References to South African and U.S. politics and their affects on human health; reflections on Gang Culture and its illogic;

"21st Century Schizoid Man (Including 'Mirrors'

King Crimson 1969 progressive rock loud agressive guitar playing vocals represent screaming

important contributors of disco DJ

Kool Herc—Clive Campbell Grandmaster Flash—Joseph Saddler Afrika Bambaataa—Kevin Donovan Aasim

Queen Latifah

Ladies First 1989 rap Feminist Anthem—Response to misogyny in rap lyrics and in general Samples: Daisy Lady, 7th Wonder; "Listen to the Music," King Ericsson

Stairway to Heaven

Led Zeppelin 1971 prog-rock (folk/progressive) slow tempo at beginning with acoustic guitar adds electric instruments later

Papercut

Linkin Park 2000 Styles: Nü Metal, then Rap Rock, Alternative Our Group Observations: Lyrics: About dark topics, paranoia; Rap-like delivery Rhythm: Fast, aggressive Instruments:Turntables, guitars with distortion; drum set Form: Straightforward verse/chorus Overall texture: Busy, noisy ala Metal or Hard Rock

F*** and Run

Liz Phair 1993 alternative Musical Characteristics: Simple Texture but not loud A cool, disaffected character

Jimmy

M.I.A. 2007 world music, rap, pop

Like a Virgin

Madonna pop video is important to populatiry electronic sounds at beginning and throughout innocent sounding voice constant sexual references, both blatant and hidden long held notes in verses

Fade to Black

Metallica 1985 heavy metal guitar solo relatively slow and peaceful for the genre

Beat It

Michael Jackson 1984 pop about gang violence and how to avoid it echo used back up vocals either repeat "beat it" or accentuate certain noises Synclavier digital synthesizer

Natural Blues

Moby 2000 electronica

Straight Outta Compton

NWA 1988 Gangsta Rap—focus on urban violence But ramped up: Gangsta Lifestyle Sex and Violence Samples: James Brown, Funkadelic, Wilson Pickett, other rap and funk artists Texture: Repeated horn loop; sampled drum beat; layered with several things happening at once; scratching

early 1980s social issues

New technology - IBM creates the first PC, Pac-Man debuts AIDS is first diagnosed The Cold War intensifies (Strategic Defense Initiative) US automakers challenged by the Japanese Global economic recession

Hurt

Nine Inch Nails 1994 industrial (alternative) Vocal Quality—monotone, depressed quality Sonic Features—noisy overlay

Smells like Teen Spirit

Nirvana 1991 grunge/alternative verses: quiet/soothing chorus: loud/energetic back up vocals repeat "hello" only Heavy metal instrumental texture and traditional song-writing --Lyrics: Address issues of high school angst --Melodic and verbal hooks --Use of texture to mark off musical sections Grunge Sound: Mix of Punk, Heavy Metal, with pop song Punk Instrumentation Lyrics: ambiguous, outsider status

Gloria: In Excelsis Deo

Patti Smith 1975 emerging punk and avant garde punk slow tempo, that gradually picks up Lyrics: Sings about meeting and seducing a girl at a party (gender/ sexual preference ambiguity); Text from 1) Garage Band song "Gloria" sung by Van Morrison and 2) Patti Smith poetry. Vocal Quality: Sounds like she's speaking with some high pitched yelps Characteristics: Self-conscious and ironic, with a formal and harmonic musical simplicity.

I know what I know

Paul SImon 1986 World Music Simon: Wrote the Lyrics Music: Pre-existing song by General M.D. Shirinda South African popular style—guitar sound and rhythm Guitar opening: resembles mbira

Sledgehammer

Peter Gabriel 1986 pop with funk/soul influence trumpets--> soul hourn section synthesizer used to create certain sounds video important to popularity music popularized by video -influence of black music of the 60s: R&B and soul -sexual innuendo as in the blues tradition Sampler—Emulator II—Sampling the sound of a Shakuhachi flute

theremin

one of the earliest electronic instruments

PMRC

parental music resource center ut warning labels/ advisory labels on explicit albums (not requried by law) just record industry agreed to do it

my radiohead adventure

paul lansky

Bomb Squad

production team (responsible for all the samples)

punk

punk's pre-history: Velvet Underground(avant garde really influenced it) The Stooges Patti Smith Characterized by: Do it Yourself (DIY) Mentality—Garage Band Bands (not primary performers), DIY clothing, albums, etc Opposition to: Virtuosity—instrumental or production values Slick clothing and performance styles Musical characs: Simple (often three chords)-Short songs-Fast tempo-Vocals—in the front of the mix-Sloppy musicianship Punk—reactionary simplicity; ironic; noisy post-pun

MC's

rap, person who was the rapper

found sound

related to sampling - NOT music being recorded--> sounds, like thunder and gun shots basically sounds of nature that are used like a sample, ,but they are not music

heavy metal and highbrow/lowbrow divide

robert walser Highbrow—practices associated with elite culture, like classical music Lowbrow—practices associated with lower-class, like rock music "...the relative worth of people and cultural activities, the social category of class was also mapped onto this hierarchy and working-class culture acquired the aura of primitivity..." (p. 225) But..... "Metal musicians have appropriated the more prestigious discourses of classical music and reworked them into noisy articulations of pride, fear, longing, alienation, aggression and community. Their adaptations of classical music....are close in spirit to the eclectic fusion of J. S. Bach [1685-1750] and other idols of that tradition." p. 231

power chords

rock, primarily rock's subgenre metal it amplifies it that creates a big sound

kurt cobain and the politics of damage

sarah ferguson p. 273-4 "The hit 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' was an anthem of powerless rage and betrayal. It was a resounding f*** you to the boomers and all the false expectations they saddled us with about rock 'n' roll revolution. And it made psychological damage—with all its concurrent themes of child abuse, drug addiction, suicide, and neglect—a basis for social identity." [identity through Grunge and Industrial music] p. 274 "Grunge appeals to white kids because it tells them that they're not responsible for the evils of racism and injustices, that they are victims too. [a bit later in the essay on p. 274] In fact, the dissolution of the American family has exerted a tremendous torque on the members of Cobain's generation."

scratching

scratching on a vinul

napster

sharing program where people would go online to upload and download songs online-- illegal

the real thing-bruce springsteen

simon frith "In fact 'boss' is an accurate description of their [Bruce and the band's] economic relationship-Springsteen employs his band; he has the recording contracts, controls the LP and concert material, writes the songs and chooses the oldies....He may express the feelings of 'little' men and women...but he is himself a corporation." (239)

streaming and cloud-based listening

spotify, stuff that you just type it in and it pops up

sampling/samplers

started in early rap samplers are machines that made it easier to sampler usually sampling came from vinyl recordings, but samplers were machines for recorded sampling: the process by which you are "borrowing" someone elses music"

progressive rock

starts in the UK

progressive rock

starts in the UK (starts with beatles and led zep, proto progressive) start to see concept albums Significant Musical and Performance Factors inProgressive Rock: Experimental or More Complex Musical techniques: intersections with classical music and jazz References to (especially) English myths and culture generally Advanced (for the time) recording and production techniques ex/ Led Zep Yes Rush Genesis King Crimson Emerson, Lake, and Palmer Pink Floyd

the parents music resource center: statement before congress

susan baker and tipper gore p. 220: "The album I am holding up in front of you is by the band Metallica. It is on Electra Asylum records. A song on this album is called "Faith in Black." [NB: correct title is "Fade to Black"]. It says the following. 'I have lost the will to live. There is nothing more for me. I need the end to set me free." Earlier, p. 219: "We are asking the recording industry to voluntarily assist parents who are concerned by placing a warning label to inform consumers in the marketplace about lyric content."

I wanna be sedated

the Ramones 1978 Punk fast tempo key change about a minute in Lyrics: Drug-induced insanity; all he wants to do is to be intoxicated Vocal Quality: Sounds like they're speaking; Beach Boys-like chorus at the end Characteristics: Ironic, "in your face" simplicity

public enemy's bomb squad

tom moon Sampling: Plagiarism or creative? p. 266, quotation from Hank Shocklee "We fight to figure it out. Somebody'll say, 'I don't want this snare on the one, because instead of being laid-back it has the feeling of not doing anything.' That's what pop records do to you—it doesn't make you feel one way or another. You went in the same way you come out. That's what we don't want. We want records that reach and transcend." Sampling, Composition and planning, i.e., musical craft: p. 267: "The mix is everything. It doesn't matter how many cool sounds and structural surprises Shocklee and his crew put into the track—if the mix ain't happening, the magic's lost."

avant garde

velvet underground group really influential bc they were backed by andy warhol

virtuosity vs. DIY

virtuosity: musical experimentation have lots of skill (havy metal) contrast by DIY = punk, a simplification , using garageband, using tools and simple musical tools to make music.

metals : heavy, extreme, mathcore

what is the difference between metal and heavy metal? non. heavy metal was the first term used mathcore: dilliger escape plan (virtuosity)