relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area
What is urban?
100
an outdoor public party organized by the residents of a neighborhood or city block to observe a positive event, usually of local importance
What is a block party?
100
vocal style characterized by semi-spoken rhymes declaimed over a rhythmic musical backing
What is rap?
100
spins on a turntable; engraved on both sides
What is a vinyl record?
100
the part of a song when most of the instruments stop playing, typically featuring only drums and bass guitar
What is the break?
200
using prerecorded sound in a new musical composition
What is sampling?
200
a movement designed to fight discrimination against women and obtain for them equal rights as men
What is Women's Liberation?
200
part of the mixer that allows the user to raise or lower the volume of any given audio signal
What is a fader?
200
style of dancing that combined older funk music dance elements with innovative moves at hip-hop parties for enjoyment and later, dance contests
What is break dancing?
200
person who presents and comments on popular records music; often alters the sound of records played on a turntable by scratching, playing the break, or looping
What is a disc jockey or DJ?
300
group of people with a common characteristic or interest living together within a larger society
What is a community?
300
device that creates sounds electronically through the use of voltage-controlled amplifiers and filters
What is a synthesizer?
300
using words to represent something else
What is symbolism?
300
most common device for playing recorded sound of records from the 1870s through the 1980s
What is a turntable?
300
city and port in southeast NY state located at the mouth of the Hudson River
What is New York City?
400
technique of pushing and pulling records on a turntable to create backward sections, loops, and musical bursts
What is scratching?
400
doctrine and political movement based on it that women should have the same economic, social and political rights as men
What is Feminism?
400
examples include rock, pop, country, jazz, gospel, alternative, and hip-hop
What is musical style?
400
MCs or rappers; incorporated by DJs to create and more exciting and professional show
What is Master of Ceremonies?
400
process of repeating a portion of a sample or song over and over in order to create a sustaining sound or beat
What is looping?
500
predominantly African-American cultural movement that developed in the Bronx in the mid-1970s
What is Hip-Hop?
500
expanding the political, social or economic strength of individuals or groups
What is empowerment?
500
concept spread by the Black Power movement that encouraged holding and spreading positive attitudes about African-American communities and heritage
What is black pride?
500
customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group
What is culture?
500
consists of graffiti, break dancing, turntablism, rapping and other expressive forms