KEY TERMS

Key Terms

1. Hip Hop- A music style that includes rapping and break dancing. It originated in the South Bronx section of New York City around the mid 1970s.
2. Rap-Urban, typically African-American music that features spoken lyrics, often reflecting current social or political issues, over a background of sampled sounds or scratched records.
3. Disk Jockey OR DJ - a person who announces and plays popular recorded music
4. MC-Rapping, the rhythmic delivery of rhymes, is one of the central elements of hip hop music and culture
5. Gangs- gang is a group of individuals that share a common identity, even if that identity consists of little more than their association with one
6.Drugs-The possession, use, sale or distribution of illegal drugs on board any vessel is prohibited. These activities will result in the immediate termination of the charter without a refund of any moneys paid
7. Teen-adolescent: being of the age 13 through 19, adolescent: a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity
8. Music- Music is an art form that involves organized sounds and silence. It is expressed in terms of pitch (which includes melody and harmony), rhythm (which includes tempo and meter), and the quality of sound (which includes timbre, articulation, dynamics, and texture).
9. Slang-Slang is the use of highly informal words and expressions that are not considered standard in the speaker's dialect or language. Slang is very often colloquial; the language and dialect tend to be specific to a particular territory.
10. Lyrics- the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number