Hip-Hop/Contemporary
Any style of music that is current or modern, addressing current issues in a manner that is appealing to the current audience.
What is Contemporary Music?
A big genre of music that is characterized by complex harmony, syncopated rhythms, and a heavy emphasis on improvisation.
Has the following characteristics:
1. Emotional Expression
2. Uses the Blues Scale
3. Uses the 12 Bar Blues structure.
What is the Blues?
Religious folksong that associated with the enslavement in the South, constitutes one of the largest and most significant forms of American folksong.
What is a Spiritual?
Uses a laser to read engravings on a mirror like disc.
What is a CD/CD player?
Has the following characteristics:
•Strong, rhythmic beat
•Vocals
•Breaks
What is Hip-Hop?
When music is not on the beat/when music is off the beat.
What is syncopation?
A structure relating to the Blues that has a specific layout of chords that are followed.
What is 12 bar blues?
The time period that Spirituals were around.
What is before the American Civil War?
Uses a magnetic tape to store and play music.
What is cassette/walkman?
The father or inventor of Hip-Hop
Who is DJ Kool Herc?
This musical artist wrote the album Kind of Blue.
Who is Miles Davis?
Listening:
The following is an example of ___________.
What is the Blues Scale?
The place where Spirituals were being sung (country)
What is the United States of America?
Uses a needle to play music that is stored on a large disk.
What is a record player/phonograph/vinyl?
Who is Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five?
Jazz was born in this Southern US City.
What is New Orleans, Louisiana?
The setting in which the blues began to develop.
What is The United States of America shortly after the Civil War?
Spirituals contained _________ and religious messages.
What are secret messages?
Uses a computer to create music.
What is a Digital Audio Workstation/DAW?
This subgenre of hip-hop gains influences from other genres like punk, jazz, indie rock, and electronic music.
What is Alternative Hip-Hop?
Free performance of a musical passage, usually in a manner conforming to certain stylistic norms but unfettered by the prescriptive features of a specific musical text
What is Improvisation/Improv?
Two important artists who created blues music.
We know _________ about the creation of spirituals and the timeline of spirituals.
What is nothing?
Uses a small processor to create electrical signals that make music come out of headphones.
What is an MP3 Player?