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Soul, Funk, and Disco

2. By

3. Romero Lindley, Clayton Patterson

4. Saundra Watts

5. 2nd Period

3/1/11

B.

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 C. Soul, Funk, and Disco

D. Introduction:

I. Soul, Funk and Disco

A. Information

1. Soul was a style of music.

1. This type of music evolved in the mid-1950.

B. The father of Soul

1. A few black gospel groups began to perform popular.

2. Ray Charles began to found new sounds for gospel and rhythm and

blue.

C. The Atlantic Sound

1. Atlantic records was known as a soul label.

2. In 1960’s they began to change their music style, by shifting

their emphasis to rock.

D. SoulsVille, U.S.A

1. Strengthened when working with small but creative new label

called stax.

2. Stax became one of the major recording centers in the south.

E. Souls ultimate balladeer

1. Stax’s most popular star was Otis Redding.

2. Stax’s made him a hit called “These Arm’s Of Mine”.

F. The Might of Motown

1. This label “Motown” had a huge impact on soul music.

2. Motown’s most successful soul artist was Marvin Gaye.

G. Changing Direction

1. Terrell Died from brain Tumor.

2. Marvin Gaye married Anna Gordy.

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 H. The Jackson Phenomenon

1. The Jackson brothers signed to Motown as Jackson five.

2. They were influenced by soul stars James Brown and the

Temptations.

I. Clinton’s people

1. George Clinton was a major funk pioneer.

2. In the 70’s, he had groups called Parliament and Funkadelic.

J. The disco years

1. Disco took backbeat and pumped up the volume.

2. All over the world teenagers went to large nightclubs and

danced to this new style of music.

K. Disco Queens

1. The first Queen of disco was Gloria Gaynor.

2. Her first hit was very popular (“Never Can Say Goodbye).

L. Into the 1980’s

1. Disco faded out of fashion.

2. The early 1980’s experienced a soul revival.

I. HIP - HOP

A. Information

1. Emerged from the poor.

2. Created by Djs and it’s produced a new type of musician.

B. The first Rapper

1. DJ’s like grandmaster flash and Kool Herc were playing their

music

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 2. Their friends would speak through a microphone getting the

crowd to dance

C. The Sugar hill sound

1. First rap record to hit the mainstream chart in 1979.

3. The sugar hill Gang wasn’t a real hip-hop crew at all, but put

together by a middle-aged record company.

D. Run D.M.C

1. Hip-hop’s next step forward was known as Run D.M.C

2. 1983, made a record that had a harder edge sound than most rap

records of all time.

E. Gangsta rap

1. Many rap groups continued to rap about violent life style of

inter-city hustler.

2. In the 80’s poverty stricken black areas were very dangerous

places to live.

F. Light relief

1. Early 90s a number of lightweight rap stars started to make an

inoffensive version of hip hop.

2. Most successful was Jazzy Jeff, the fresh prince, MC hammer, and

Vanilla Ice.

G. Crossing over

1. 20th century hip hop merged in Modern R&B.

2. Huge success of rappers like Busta Rhymes, Nas, and Eminem proved

that the appeal of hip hop was still as great as ever.

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E. Conclusion: Overall hip-hop has been created a long time ago. New

rappers and singers come along and each decade hip-hop is changed into

something better than it already was. It changed the lives of a lot of people in

the world in both positive and negative ways. New type of music will still be

merging over the years and its legacy will continually live on forever.

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 Clayton Patterson & Romero Lindley

Saundra Watts

2nd period

3/3/11

TITLE

First paragraph

In the early 19th century a young new rapper was evolved. He was known as lil’

Clay. Lil’ Clay’s real name was Michael Shaw. He grew up as a young African American

listening to rappers like Notorious B.I.G, and Tupac Shakur. He wasn’t really into the

Soul, Funk, and Disco years with ray Charles and gospel groups, but he really liked the

Jackson five. He would listen to their music to calm him down when he’s angry. Also he

would go to their concerts and bought one of their records called “The Might of Motown.

At one of their concerts he met Marvin Gaye, Motown’s most successful soul artist. Over

the years the music he listened to started to rub off on him and he began to gain some

rapping skills. He would always rap to his friends in school. Later on in his life he was

known as the greatest rapper alive.

Just like all the other new rappers he emerged from the poor, and got richer as his

rap career became more successful. Lil’ clay would listen to a lot of rappers but the one

that he was inspired by was the one who started it all, Grand Master Flash. When he

became famous he started to work with his best friend since middle school, Ro’Dizzle.

He was the most famous DJ in all of New York. They both started to perform at concerts

together and became the dynamic duo Of Rap. They created all different kind of music

like Gansta Rap or Modern R&B. Lil’ Clay like Modern R&B better because gansta rap

really influenced to listiners by going to a more violent side.

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WORKS CITED

Grimbly, Shona. From rock and pop to Hip-Hop. 1. v.6.

Danbury, CT: Grolier Education, 2001. 46-64. Print.

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