MUS 360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Freestyle Fellowship, Innercity Griots, Project Blowed
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More emphasis on scenes or cliques; not a star. Oten ied to speciic locaions, venues, & insituions. Advanced or complex aristry privileged over inancial rewards. Freestyle fellowship, to whom it may concern (1991) Tied to leimert park (la) & project blowed weekly event. Started playing in dance bands but turned back on commercial jazz industry. Formed pan afrikan people"s arkestra in 1961 & led group into 90s. Mos def & talib kweli are black star, children"s story (1998) Respiraion (1998) in liner notes in black star, mos explains concept for song personiies city as human tried a # of beats before choosing. Eden & paten locke choice cuts live (dublin) Turntableism & instrumental hip hop as undergound genres rap as genre focuses on mcs & marginalizes djs. Djs paricipate in rap groups in mid-1980s & sill vital players in genre. But djs also have formed their own culture prioriizing their work & evolving it independently w/o need for mcs.
