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MUSIC 17 - Week Four, Apr 22 Paper #2, Due Monday, May 6 at Noon, Submit Via Triton Ed MUSIC 17 - Week Four, Apr 22 Paper #2, due Monday, May 6 at noon, submit via triton ed. Guidelines, also posted on TritonEd ... Why is nobody coming to my office hours?!?!?!? ... Note: Keep up with the listening assignments. For assessments of this type (not multiple choice), experience tells me that cramming is not an effective strategy. See course page for highlighted tracks. ... First in-section writing assignment was completed this week. Reminder that these will happen periodically, and that prompts are given out in section only. ... Jeff Chang is speaking at UCSD on Monday, May 13th Quiz #3 review... • On Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five's track, "Superrappin'," the music is created...how? • Planet Rock involves all the following except: • The Zulu Nation • German Electro Pop • The TR 808 • Def Jam records • The Signifying Monkey refers to...? (actually refers to two different things we've talked about) • Who wrote these lyrics...? Should we practice a listening ID??? To do, Apr 22. 1. Review last week's lecture. ◦ Review in general, but focus on Native Tongues Collective in particular ◦ Listening strategies from last week are the ones paper #2 is asking you to put into practice 2. Then, on to today's materials -- Hip Hop in the "Age of Fracture": 1. Apartheid in South Africa -- before the fracture 2. Crack Epidemic, CIA ironies, militarism in LA city police (Mike Davis reading) 3. 1989, a big year ▪ Central Park 5, Public Enemy in the press, Do the Right Thing 4. Listening: NWA, X-Clan, Brand Nubian, Schooly D Review from last week Native Tongues collective refers to a loose association of hip hop groups in the early 80s that inherits the community orientation of Bambaataa and produces positive, socially conscious materials. Most prominent members of Native Tongues are: De La Soul, Jungle Brothers, A Tribe Called Quest, Stetsasonic, Queen Latifah ...paved the way for later artists like the Roots, Common and Mos Def Q Tip on the formation and purpose of Native Tongues: " Yo these kids, De La Soul, you gotta meet ’em! I swear we’re just alike!” I went there, met them, and it was just fuckin’ love at first sight. It was disgusting. In hip hop, it praises individualism. I think that’s the main achievement of the Native Tongues. It just showed people could come together.” Note: Native Tongues is explicitly positioned against "individualism." It's about coming together, or, another way to say it, "collectivism." Following on our discussion from last week, the crucial thing is to notice how this "positivity" emerges from more than just the lyrics. It's in the whole aesthetic presentation: the production, the timbre, the ride cymbals, the fashion, the album art, whatever. Stetsasonic, “Talking All That Jazz,” 1988 • Wise, Daddy-O and Prince Paul • Samples Jazz - upright bass. Lonnie Smith, Expansions • note double entendre on "Jazz" - or is it a triple entendre? • It's a rap song about sampling as a serious aesthetic working method. • Note in-group mentality specifically addressed at outsiders, using the concept of sampling as the wedge. Selections: Well here's how it started, heard you on the radio Talking 'bout rap, saying all that crap About how we sample, giving examples Think we'll let you get away with that? You said it wasn't art, so now we're gonna rip you apart Stop, check it out my man This is the music of a hip-hop band Jazz, well you can call it that But this jazz retains a new format ... Think rap is a fad? You must be mad Cause we're so bad we get respect you never had Tell the truth, James Brown was old 'Til Eric and Ra came out with "I Got Soul" Rap brings back old R&B And if we would not, people could've forgot TC: James Brown was old until 1987: Erik B and Rakim, I know Uou Got Soul There's a very straightforward connection to make to Henry Louis Gates here -- can we make it? Tribe Called Quest, Scenario, 1991 • begins with verse by core members: Phife Dawg, Charlie Brown, and Q-Tip • Very significant and influential track featuring a classic verse omfr a young Busta Rhymes • Also features Dinco D, who, with Busta Rhymes, would found the Leaders of the New School Here we go, yo, here we go, yo So what, so what, so what's the scenario? Here we go, yo, here we go, yo So what, so what, so what's the scenario? TC: opens with chorus/posse -- actually a throwback to older styles of hip hop Phife Dawg Ayo, Bo knows this (What?) And Bo knows that (What?) But Bo don't know jack, 'cause Bo can't rap Well, what do you know? The Di-Dawg is first up to bat No batteries included and no strings attached No holds barred, no time for move-fakin' Gots to get the loot so I can bring home the bacon Brothers front, they say the Tribe can't flow But we've been known to do the impossible like Broadway Joe, so Sleep if you want, Nytol will help you get your Zs, troop But here's the real scoop I'm all that and then some, short, dark, and handsome Bust a nut inside your eye to show you where I come from I'm vexed, fuming, I've had it up to here My days of paying dues are over, acknowledge me as in there (Yeah!) Head for the border, go get a taco Watch me wreck it from the jump street, meaning from the get-go Sit back, relax, and let yourself go Don't sweat what you heard, but act like you know Charlie Brown Yes, yes, y'all, (Yes, y'all!) Who got the vibe? It's the Tribe, y'all (Tribe, y'all!) Real live, y'all (Live, y'all!) Inside, outside, come around (Who's that?) Brown! TC: again, posse interlude introduces Charlie Brown So, may I say, call me Charlie The word is the herb and I'm deep like Bob Marley Lay back on the payback, evolve, rotate the gates (Contact!) Can I get a hit? (Hit!) Boom, bip With a brother named Tip, and we're ready to flip East coast stomping, ripping, and romping New York, North Cak-a-laka, and Compton Checka-checka-check it out The loops for the troops, more bounce to the ounce And wow-how-now-wow, how now, Brown cow? TC: note gibberish syllables, another throwback We're ill 'til the skill gets down For the flex, next, it's the textbook, old to the new But the rest are doo-doo From radio, to the video, to Arsenio Tell me, yo; what's the scenario? Dinco D (True blue!) Scooby Doo, whoopie doo Scenarios, radios, rates more than four Scores for the s'mores that smother dance floors Now I go for mine, shades of sea shore Ship-shape, crushed grapes, apes that play tapes Papes make drakes baked for the wakes Of an (L-ah-!), an (-eader!), simply just a leader Base (TC or bass?) in the space means peace, see ya later Later (Later!) later, alligator Pop blows the weasel and the urge to inflate her So, yo, the D, what! The O Incorporated I-N-C into a flow Funk flipped, flat back, first this, foul, fight, fight, fight Laugh, yo, how'd that sound? (Ooh!) Q Tip It's a Leader-Quest mission and we got the goods here (Here!) Never on the left 'cause my right's my good ear (Ear!) TC: Shakespeare? "Come over to my right side, because this ear is deaf, and tell me what you really think of Cassius." I could give a damn about a ill subliminal Stay away from crime so I ain't no (criminal!) I love my young nation, groovy sensation No time for hibernation, only elation Don't ever try to test the water, little kid Yo, Mr. Busta Rhymes, tell him what I did— Busta Rhymes —I heard you rushed and rushed (and attacked!) Then they rebuked and you (had to smack!) Causing rambunction throughout the sphere Raise the levels of the boom inside the ear— Q Tip —You know I did it So don't violate or you'll get violated The hip-hop sound is well agitated Won't ever waste no time on a played out ego So here's Busta Rhymes with the scenario: Busta Rhymes Watch as I combine all the juice from the mind Heel up, wheel up, bring it back, come, rewind Powerful impact (Boom!) from the cannon! Not bragging, tryna read my mind, just imagine Vo-cab-u-lary's necessary When diggin' into my library TC: cf. Q Tip's vocabulary -- "sensation, hibernation, elation." More rarefied words than we're used to hearing. Oh, my gosh! Oh, my gosh! Eating Ital Stew like the one Peter Tosh Unh! Unh! Unh! All over the track, man Unh, pardon me, unh! As I come back! As I did it, yo, I had to beg your pardon When I travel through the town I roll with the squadron Rawr! Rawr! Like a dungeon dragon Change your little drawers 'cause your pants were saggin' Try to step to this, I will twist you in a turban And have you smelling rank like some old, stale urine Chickity Choco, the chocolate chicken The rear cock diesel, buttcheeks, they were kicking Yo, bust it out before the Busta bust another rhyme The rhythm is in sync (Uh!) the rhymes are on time (Time!) Rippin' up the sound just like Horatio Observe the vibe and check out the scenario Yeah, my man, mothafucka! Queen Latifah and Monie Love, Ladies First, 1989 • Although perhaps better known today for her acting career, Queen Latifah started as a rapper.
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