Question
Answer the following about music production techniques employed over the past 50 years, for 10 points each:
[10h] This man is widely-credited to have invented hip-hop in the Bronx in 1973 during a “Back to School Jam.” This artist used two turntables to extend songs’ percussive “breaks” and to allow emcees to rap over the beat.
ANSWER: DJ Kool Herc [or Clive Campbell]
[10e] Along with his break-extending “Merry-go-round” technique, Kool Herc used this method where a record is moved by hand under the record player’s needle, causing it to skip and reverse parts of the song.
ANSWER: scratching [or scrubbing]
[10m] Many producers turned to this drum machine released by Roland in 1980. Employed by Run DMC on their hit “It’s Tricky” and Public Enemy on It Takes a Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back, these electronic instruments and “Heartbreak” title a 2008 Kanye West album.
ANSWER: Roland TR-808s [reject “Roland TR-909s”]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia | 11/11/2023 | Y | 9 | 21.11 | 100% | 89% | 22% |
Data
| NYU B | Bard A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn A | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Haverford | Vassar | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| NYU A | Rutgers A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn B | Rutgers B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Princeton A | Rowan A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Yale A | Cornell C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia B | Yale B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Yale C | Princeton B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |