Jazz me blues
Louis Armstrong
Tin Pan Alley emerged in this decade as a constellation of songwriters and publishers.
1890s
Founder of Motown
Berry Gordy
Another name for 12-tone serialism
Dodecaphony
DJ Kool Herc originated hip hop in this New York borough.
South Bronx
This blues singer recorded "Hound Dog" in 1953, years before Elvis covered it.
Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton
Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" premiered in 1924 at New York's Aeolian Hall under this bandleader.
Paul Whiteman
Wass notable for being the first Black pop singer to own his own record labels and this publishing company, which manages song rights.
Sam Cooke (Sars and Derby, KAGS)
this composer was influenced by jazz and folk musics of the Americas between late 20s and 50s through a process of "collecting musical themes"
Aaron Copland
First rap by solo woman rapper
"Vicious Rap" by Tanya Winley (Sweet Tee)
Video version of a jukebox, precursor to the music video
Soundies
With music written by Gershwin, this was the first musical to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Of Thee I Sing (1931)
Two Acts:ended legal segregation and voting discrimination
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act 1965
This term characterizes the difference between the involuntary nature of hearing and the conscious nature of listening. The practice includes bodywork, sonic meditations, and interactive performance focusing on awareness of the sonic environment. (Name composer as well)
Deep Listening, Pauline Oliveros
This 1982 track was a pioneering response rap addressing urban life and social issues.
"The Message" - Grandmaster Flash
This radio host changed the terminology from "Rhythm and Blues" to "Rock and Roll," connecting it to youth rebellion culture
Alan Freed
Funding comes from small group of benefactors (usually a singular bequeathment), Primarily gives out grants, and must give away some of their total endowment per year
Foundation
Billboard charts renamed "Race Records" to this new category in 1948
Rhythm and Blues
Describe Cage's chance operations
John Cage (1912–1992) used chance operations to remove personal taste, intention, and ego from his artistic process. By using random methods to determine elements like pitch, duration, and volume. Influenced by I-Ching, aleatory, and indeterminacy.
In hip hop, this term describes the moment when band drops out to feature percussion or rhythm instruments frequently occurs between sections.
The break
Chuck Berry's "Maybellene" and "Johnny B. Goode" were recorded on this Chicago label.
Chess Records
“[the U.S.’s] ability to manage the threshold of its domain, to extend its purview carefully, wisely, and inclusively, and thereby negotiate the transition from wilderness to civilization, from lawless to law-abiding, from frontier to community, from territory to state, from fledgling nation to world power.” (Knapp 123)
Frontier Brinksmanship
List the Politics of crossover as described by Berry Gordy
Teen-oriented male vocal harmony
High-energy rock and roll
Black Male Song stylists
Black women harmony groups
Name an important (starred) feature about minimalism and name three composers
Distancing from academic institutions - Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Philip Glass
Name the three main ways Tricia Rose theorizes hip-hop and describe them
Flow, Layering, Rupture
Reflects and contest the social roles open to urban inner-city youths at the end of the twentieth century. Shown through graffiti, breakdancing, and rapping, these processes reflected deindustrialization and urban renewal in the South Bronx. Flow constituted continuity, lines, and improvisation, layering demonstrated multiple meanings (paint, words, moves), and rupture meant pushing through "the break(s)"