Combined Quizzes

A  Rapping, DJing, Graffiti, Breakdancing

B  Rhyming, Stealing, Running, Dancing

C  Rock, Blues, Country, Jazz

D  The Head, The Hands, The Heart and the Feet

A  The Queensbridge Houses and The Bronx

B  The Queensbridge Houses and Magnolia Houses

C  New York and New Orleans

D  New York and Compton

A  Because the kids in the Suburbs had to take the bus to the Bronx and as a result shows got shorter

B  Because dancing was made illegal in most Suburban towns

C  Because the Suburbs had more dance clubs and as a result Hip Hop became more party -oriented

D  Because the Suburban middle-class kids had different ideas of striving and different social concerns than the impoverished ones from the Bronx

A  The Crossfader and the Turntable

B  MTV and Samplers

C  The Sampler and Ultimate Breaks and Beats

D  Live Bands and Turntables

A  It’s a trick question – they are both the same person

B  Rick Rubin liked to speed music up to make it high in pitch but the Bomb Squad liked to slow it down.

C  The Bomb Squad used hyper-dense textures but Rick Rubin used bare, rock-like ones.

D  The Bomb Squad liked danceable beats and Rick Rubin liked slow ballads

A  Public Enemy wanted to make dance music, as did Russell Simmons , but the record company executives wanted something they could sell to adults

B  Russell Simmons thought that it would be easer to market a group of people rather than a single rapper.

C  Russell Simmons thought that Hip Hop in the early 80s had become “white” and he felt that a “black” consciousness and image was the best way to sell Hip Hop to America.

D  Their image does not connect at all – Simmons thought that Hip Hop needed to appear more “white” to sell and Public Enemy was too “black”

A  They would have to hire a band to make a recording of a current hit.

B  They would have to commission songs from bands-for-hire

C  The would have to pay hundreds of dollars for rare records

D  They would have to listen to hundred of hours of obscure records

A  The drum beats could sound stiff

B  There were expensive

C  The drum sounds could not be changed

D  All of the above

A  Because he chopped away at conformity

B  Because he was chopping away at the load he took to pay for the sampler

C  Because he chopped little pieces out of one recording and put them together to make another

D  Because he liked an even beat, like someone chopping wood

A  He could only afford sampling time for a few hours in the studio so he got a job as a janitor in the building so he could get in at night.

B  The sampling time was so long that it was difficult to fill up all of the space and he started recording more than one song in a row.

C  He only had battery life for 15 minutes of sampling time so he cut a lamp cord to extend the life.

D  The sampling time was too short for any functional breakbeat so he recorded them at a way faster speed and then slowed them down for playback.

A  If we think back to the early live recordings of Hip Hop we hear the same kind of bare instrumentation and the guitar riffs attracted rock fans to the music.

B  The rappers were all original Bronx gang members who had studied pop music trends

C  The songs were really long, but not too long

D  The rappers recycled old party raps but added really lush string arrangements.

A  They both use nothing by synthesizers

B  They both are extremely complex and highly arranged

C  The entire musical accompaniment for both effectively consists of a rock drum beat and a guitar riff

D  They both use a full string section