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    This document defines several key terms related to reggae and hip hop music: 1) It defines a sample as an excerpt from a musical recording that is reused or extracted for use in another artist's work. 2) It explains that a soundsystem is a group of people with speakers and amplifiers to play music publicly, and were popular venues for early Jamaican DJ competitions. 3) Toasting is described as a practice where DJs would talk or rap over instrumental tracks, which evolved into DJs writing new lyrics to songs.

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    This document defines several key terms related to reggae and hip hop music: 1) It defines a sample as an excerpt from a musical recording that is reused or extracted for use in another artist's work. 2) It explains that a soundsystem is a group of people with speakers and amplifiers to play music publicly, and were popular venues for early Jamaican DJ competitions. 3) Toasting is described as a practice where DJs would talk or rap over instrumental tracks, which evolved into DJs writing new lyrics to songs.

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    This document defines several key terms related to reggae and hip hop music: 1) It defines a sample as an excerpt from a musical recording that is reused or extracted for use in another artist's work. 2) It explains that a soundsystem is a group of people with speakers and amplifiers to play music publicly, and were popular venues for early Jamaican DJ competitions. 3) Toasting is described as a practice where DJs would talk or rap over instrumental tracks, which evolved into DJs writing new lyrics to songs.

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    This document defines several key terms related to reggae and hip hop music: 1) It defines a sample as an excerpt from a musical recording that is reused or extracted for use in another artist's work. 2) It explains that a soundsystem is a group of people with speakers and amplifiers to play music publicly, and were popular venues for early Jamaican DJ competitions. 3) Toasting is described as a practice where DJs would talk or rap over instrumental tracks, which evolved into DJs writing new lyrics to songs.

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    Handout 1 - Glossary of Terms

    ● Sample:
    ○ Noun:
    1. a sound such as a musical
    tone, drumbeat, single drum
    hit, voice or any sound digitally
    stored in a synthesizer or
    audio workstation (such as the
    EMU-1200, pictured here) and
    used for playback in a
    recordings.
    2. an excerpt from a musical
    recording that is used in
    another artist's recording
    ● Verb:
    1. To use a part of something, for instance a guitar riff or vocal phrase, as
    part of one’s own composition
    2. To extract a piece of an existing sound recording using a sampler

    ● Soundsystem: A person or team of people with a system of speakers and power


    amplifiers sufficient to broadcast albums in public. The 1960s marked the beginning of
    the Jamaican tradition of naming soundsystems and pitting them against one another at
    public dance events, much like a “Battle of the Bands.”

    ● Toasting: The practice of musical, rap-like talking over an existing musical track
    pioneered by Jamaican DJs at “sound system” dances in the late 1960s. In its earliest
    phases toasting was mostly used as a creative way to introduce records but by the early
    1970s toasters had become performers themselves, writing new lyrics to existing
    instrumental recordings.
    ○ Note: In Jamaica, the person who plays the records is the “selector” and the
    person who “toasts” into the microphone is the DJ; in U.S. terminology the DJ
    plays the records and the MC uses the microphone.

    ● Dub: A remix of a recording in which the original vocal track has been partially or
    completely omitted. Dub originated in the late 1960s in Jamaica as recording format that
    provided soundsystems with a means to feature the “toasting” of their DJs.

    ● Break: An instrumental passage in funk and soul recordings in which the lead
    instruments and vocals stop, “breaking down” to just drums and bass or just drums. DJ
    Kool Herc popularized the extended “breakbeat” by developing a technique that toggled
    between two copies of the same record on different turntables.

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