Combined Quizzes

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

B  Rapping, DJing, Graffiti, Breakdancing

C  Rhyming, Stealing, Running, Dancing

D  Rock, Blues, Country, Jazz

A  The Queensbridge Houses and The Bronx

B  The Queensbridge Houses and Magnolia Houses

C  New York and Compton

D  New York and New Orleans

A  Because dancing was made illegal in most Suburban towns

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

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

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

A  The Crossfader and the Turntable

B  The Sampler and Ultimate Breaks and Beats

C  Live Bands and Turntables

D  MTV and Samplers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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  The would have to pay hundreds of dollars for rare records

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

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

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

A  The drum beats could sound stiff

B  The drum sounds could not be changed

C  There were expensive

D  All of the above

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

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

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

D  Because he chopped away at conformity

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

C  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.

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

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

C  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.

D  The songs were really long, but not too long

A  They both use a full string section

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

C  They both are extremely complex and highly arranged

D  They both use nothing by synthesizers