MUS 360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Brooklyn Funk Essentials, Tommy Boy Records, Def Jam Recordings
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Everything that is hip-hop was not originally intended. Thes one, what makes hip hop hip hop? . Musical borrowing = fundamental element of hip-hop culture & aestheics. Hop is disinct for its overt borrowing of preexising materials to new ends. Producer for planet patrol, brooklyn funk essenials, north end, & goon squad. It"s like that b/w sucker mc"s (run d. m. c. ) breakbeat like the breaks ; beat is slower in ilt drum synth like planet rock . Rap music born on the margins of the margins of the music industry" shallow, trendy, repeiious vs. complexity of art rock / poetry of singer- songwriters judgments also ied up w/ race & gender. Dj gave discounts to people who brought records to burn. Started in dorm room @ nyu (rubin"s dorm) Rick r. rap records are really black rock and roll records, the anithesis of disco. My noion of rock and roll isn"t pegged to a big, noisy guitar.
