MUS 17 EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS ALREADY PASSED
What were the dozens used for? - Answers Served as lyrics in songs to trade insults
Jelly Roll Morton "Dirty Dozens" - Answers Jelly Roll Morton is generally considered to be the first major
figure in jazz; an
influential bandleader, composer and arranger
Bo Diddley "Say Man" - Answers 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? - Answers Toasts are stock tales, generally recounted in rhyme. Most are bawdy,
violent, highly stylized and funny
Comedy - Answers 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" - Answers Dolemite was a performative alter ego of comedian Rudy Ray
Moore, especially when performing material based on toasts
Pigmeat Markham "Here Comes the Judge" - Answers 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? - Answers Talking over the top of the music they were playing
(50s-70s)
Parliament "P Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up)" - Answers 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 - Answers 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" - Answers 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? - Answers Disco
Reggae
Reggae - Answers 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 - Answers 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" - Answers 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" - Answers Dr Alimantando was one of the pre-eminent
Jamaican DJ
performers
Disco - Answers Disco, like hip hop was more of a social practice and context than musical style per se.
Chic "Good Times" - Answers 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 - Answers A series of social and economic pressures converged to make
the city hit rock bottom in the 1970s
The South Bronx - Answers Of the 5 boroughs the Bronx was hit worst.
By the mid 1970s many buildings were vacant, abandoned and
burned out
Bronx Gangs - Answers A thriving gang sub-culture filled the vacuum left by the collapse of many regular
social services.
, Parties - Answers 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 - Answers 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 - Answers pioneered the practice
of playing two copies of the same record and mixing between them to extend the break
Grandmaster Flash - Answers took Herc's basic technique and refined it by adding a
headphone cue mix to his set up. This allowed him to make the cuts cleaner and more in tempo
Grandwizard Theodore - Answers The other main Djing innovation from this time was scratching,
supposedly invented by accident
Early MCs - Answers Early MC performers were closer to what we'd call hypemen today
Graffiti - Answers While graffiti writers were perhaps not explicitly part of the party scene, the art form
developed in parallel and many of the same people were involved
Early rap and the music business - Answers Because it was an informal practice linked to live social
occasions, most of the early DJs and MCs had no commercial musical
aspirations
Sugarhill Gang "Rapper's Delight" - Answers The first rap single and a huge hit, worldwide
Funky 4 + 1 "Rappin and Rocking the House" - Answers The first "real" rap single, released by Enjoy!
Records
The group were mainstays of the Bronx party scene
Spoonie Gee "Spoonin' Rap" - Answers Spoonie Gee began rapping as a member of the Treacherous
Three.
He was also the nephew of Enjoy's owner Bobby Robinson and when
offered a chance to record made this solo effort over the Patty Duke break. He was later featured on
crew cuts of Treacherous Three
Treacherous Three "New Rap Language" - Answers The Treacherous Three were probably the most
accomplished early MC crew: Kool Moe Dee, L.A. Sunshine and Spoonie Gee
What were the dozens used for? - Answers Served as lyrics in songs to trade insults
Jelly Roll Morton "Dirty Dozens" - Answers Jelly Roll Morton is generally considered to be the first major
figure in jazz; an
influential bandleader, composer and arranger
Bo Diddley "Say Man" - Answers 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? - Answers Toasts are stock tales, generally recounted in rhyme. Most are bawdy,
violent, highly stylized and funny
Comedy - Answers 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" - Answers Dolemite was a performative alter ego of comedian Rudy Ray
Moore, especially when performing material based on toasts
Pigmeat Markham "Here Comes the Judge" - Answers 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? - Answers Talking over the top of the music they were playing
(50s-70s)
Parliament "P Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up)" - Answers 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 - Answers 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" - Answers 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? - Answers Disco
Reggae
Reggae - Answers 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 - Answers 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" - Answers 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" - Answers Dr Alimantando was one of the pre-eminent
Jamaican DJ
performers
Disco - Answers Disco, like hip hop was more of a social practice and context than musical style per se.
Chic "Good Times" - Answers 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 - Answers A series of social and economic pressures converged to make
the city hit rock bottom in the 1970s
The South Bronx - Answers Of the 5 boroughs the Bronx was hit worst.
By the mid 1970s many buildings were vacant, abandoned and
burned out
Bronx Gangs - Answers A thriving gang sub-culture filled the vacuum left by the collapse of many regular
social services.
, Parties - Answers 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 - Answers 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 - Answers pioneered the practice
of playing two copies of the same record and mixing between them to extend the break
Grandmaster Flash - Answers took Herc's basic technique and refined it by adding a
headphone cue mix to his set up. This allowed him to make the cuts cleaner and more in tempo
Grandwizard Theodore - Answers The other main Djing innovation from this time was scratching,
supposedly invented by accident
Early MCs - Answers Early MC performers were closer to what we'd call hypemen today
Graffiti - Answers While graffiti writers were perhaps not explicitly part of the party scene, the art form
developed in parallel and many of the same people were involved
Early rap and the music business - Answers Because it was an informal practice linked to live social
occasions, most of the early DJs and MCs had no commercial musical
aspirations
Sugarhill Gang "Rapper's Delight" - Answers The first rap single and a huge hit, worldwide
Funky 4 + 1 "Rappin and Rocking the House" - Answers The first "real" rap single, released by Enjoy!
Records
The group were mainstays of the Bronx party scene
Spoonie Gee "Spoonin' Rap" - Answers Spoonie Gee began rapping as a member of the Treacherous
Three.
He was also the nephew of Enjoy's owner Bobby Robinson and when
offered a chance to record made this solo effort over the Patty Duke break. He was later featured on
crew cuts of Treacherous Three
Treacherous Three "New Rap Language" - Answers The Treacherous Three were probably the most
accomplished early MC crew: Kool Moe Dee, L.A. Sunshine and Spoonie Gee
