MUS 17 Certification Review Exam Questions And Answers Graded A+.
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What were the dozens used for? - correct answer Served as lyrics in songs to trade insults
Jelly Roll Morton "Dirty Dozens" - correct answer Jelly Roll Morton is generally considered to be the first major figure in jazz; a...
What were the dozens used for? - correct answer Served as lyrics in songs to trade
insults
Jelly Roll Morton "Dirty Dozens" - correct answer Jelly Roll Morton is generally
considered to be the first major figure in jazz; an
influential bandleader, composer and arranger
Bo Diddley "Say Man" - correct answer Bo Diddley was one of the most influential
figures in early rock and roll, especially in establishing the new rhythms that marked
the style
What were toasts? - correct answer Toasts are stock tales, generally recounted in
rhyme. Most are bawdy, violent, highly stylized and funny
Comedy - correct answer Both the dozens and toasts were mainstays of the
repertory of African American comedians, especially in the first half of the 20th century.
Dolemite "Signifying Monkey" - correct answer Dolemite was a performative alter
ego of comedian Rudy Ray Moore, especially when performing material based on toasts
Pigmeat Markham "Here Comes the Judge" - correct answer Markham began
performing on the vaudeville circuit in the early 20th century and continued well into the TV era.
What were Radio Disc Jockeys good at? - correct answer Talking over the top of the
music they were playing (50s-70s)
Parliament "P Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up)" - correct answer George Clinton
frequently used radio DJ personae and DJ-like catchphrases in his songs for Funkadelic, Parliament and
as a
,solo artist
Black Arts Movement - correct answer Alongside the Civil Rights movement, many
African American artists became more generally politically active, and also became much more direct
about addressing issues of race in their work
Last Poets "When the Revolution Comes" - correct answer The Last Poets were a
radical performance poetry group that emerged from a writers workshop in Harlem
What two forms of music led to the rise of hip hop? - correct answer Disco
Reggae
Reggae - correct answer Many important early figures in hip hop were Jamaican
There were two main structural influences:
1. DJs who talked over music, and
2. the dub practice of reusing instrumental backing tracks of
already existing songs
Soundsystem - correct answer The primary means of disseminate music in Jamaica
in the 1970s was the soundsystem
This term is more of a social structure/complex than a
technological one
It refers to the whole structure of putting on a dance or a party: the speakers, the records, the DJ, the
selector, the promoter, the dancers
"Talkover" - correct answer As in the US radio DJs in Jamaica developed flamboyant
on-air
personalities while talking over the music
Dr Alimantando "Best Dressed Chicken in Town" - correct answer Dr Alimantando
was one of the pre-eminent Jamaican DJ
, performers
Disco - correct answer Disco, like hip hop was more of a social practice and context
than musical style per se.
Chic "Good Times" - correct answer Chic was a project of the duo of guitarist Nile
Rodgers and bassist Bernard Edwards
Their concept was to take the energy of the "breakdown" sections in songs popular in discos, and to
build more complex
traditional pop songs on top of that
New York in the 1970s - correct answer A series of social and economic pressures
converged to make
the city hit rock bottom in the 1970s
The South Bronx - correct answer Of the 5 boroughs the Bronx was hit worst.
By the mid 1970s many buildings were vacant, abandoned and
burned out
Bronx Gangs - correct answer A thriving gang sub-culture filled the vacuum left by
the collapse of many regular social services.
Parties - correct answer The origins of hip hop are generally located in the street
and club parties in Brooklyn, Queens and then Bronx in the 1970s
Influential early DJs - correct answer DJ Hollywood in Harlem,
Grandmaster Flowers in Brooklyn, and DJ Kool Herc, Grandwizard
Theodore, Grandmaster Flash and Afrika Bambaataa in the Bronx
DJ Kool Herc - correct answer pioneered the practice
of playing two copies of the same record and mixing between them to extend the break
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