Question
After going through the above, you should have been able to hear how disco remixers like Tom Moulton took small parts of songs and re-organized them for functional purposes – keeping people dancing – and how they re-arranged these parts to ensure that there was new sense of progression, or form in the music. If you did not hear that, go back and listen again.
These remixes are not new songs – we are not seeing new things being made from old – but are remixes with refined purpose as opposed to the act of creating entirely new songs from small parts of others.
How could you relate what we hear happening here to what we heard happening in Jamaica ?
These remixes are not new songs – we are not seeing new things being made from old – but are remixes with refined purpose as opposed to the act of creating entirely new songs from small parts of others.
How could you relate what we hear happening here to what we heard happening in Jamaica ?
A Both the disco remixers and sound system organizers were concerned with ensure that the party kept going and that people would remain on the disco dance floor or at the soundsystem.
B Both the disco remixers and Jamaican dub remixers were primarily concerned with elevating music to high art status
C Both the disco remixers and Jamaican selectors were primarily concerned with keeping their source records secret so they obscured them by altering them
D Both the disco remixers and Jamaican operators who created versions were primarily interested in inventing technologies that they could sell and profit from
This question is taken from Music 17 – Hip Hop » Spring 2020 » Lecture 1 Quiz
