MUSC 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Dj Kool Herc, Kevin Donovan, Afrika Bambaataa
20 May 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Lots of elements to it that reveal musical sophistication. Emerged in the 70"s as a complex comprehensive culture. Includes distinctive styles of graffiti, dance, music, dress, and speech. A rejection of mainstream dance music (disco), but also ironically takes elements from it. Early celebrities include kool herc (clive campbell, b. jamaica), grandmaster flash (joseph. Sadler, b. jamaica), and africa bambaataa (kevin donovan, b. bronx) Intensely place centered- make references to specific places and time, local identities. Mixing between turntables to achieve smooth transitions between records. The 3rd avenue ballroom was packed, and i figured i might as well give it a try. So, i put on two copies of james brown"s sex machine" and started scratching up one. Kool herc: recited rhyming phrases over backbeat on his turntables. Toasting: a form of storytelling with roots in the trickster stories (has roots in west africa and in.
