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    The document discusses several topics related to brass bands in New Orleans: 1) It analyzes how the song "Made It through That Water" fits within the standard New Orleans brass band repertoire through its use of collective improvisation, polyrhythmic grooves, and call-and-response. 2) It explores how the song also makes "musical, thematic, aesthetic and contextual alliances with hip-hop" through its use of a repeating tuba riff similar to funk bass lines sampled in hip-hop. 3) It questions why a New Orleans radio station is anti-rap, when brass bands and hip-hop are not separate domains for some culture bearers, and

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    The document discusses several topics related to brass bands in New Orleans: 1) It analyzes how the song "Made It through That Water" fits within the standard New Orleans brass band repertoire through its use of collective improvisation, polyrhythmic grooves, and call-and-response. 2) It explores how the song also makes "musical, thematic, aesthetic and contextual alliances with hip-hop" through its use of a repeating tuba riff similar to funk bass lines sampled in hip-hop. 3) It questions why a New Orleans radio station is anti-rap, when brass bands and hip-hop are not separate domains for some culture bearers, and

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    Brass Band Discussion Questions

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    The document discusses several topics related to brass bands in New Orleans: 1) It analyzes how the song "Made It through That Water" fits within the standard New Orleans brass band repertoire through its use of collective improvisation, polyrhythmic grooves, and call-and-response. 2) It explores how the song also makes "musical, thematic, aesthetic and contextual alliances with hip-hop" through its use of a repeating tuba riff similar to funk bass lines sampled in hip-hop. 3) It questions why a New Orleans radio station is anti-rap, when brass bands and hip-hop are not separate domains for some culture bearers, and

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    Brass Band Discussion Questions

    How does Made It Through That Water by the Free Agents Brass
    Band fit within the standard repertoire of the New Orleans Brass
    Band?

    Collectiveimprovisations,polyrhythmicgrooves,andcallandresponsechants
    MadeItthroughThatWaterisacompositionthat,inmanyways,fitssnugly
    intothestandardrepertoireoftheNewOrleansbrassband.Itsrhythmic
    continuity,collectiveimprovisation,texturaldensity,andgroupsingingareall
    musicalcharacteristicsthathavedefinedthebrassbandtraditionsincethe
    emergenceofjazz.

    How does it make "musical, thematic, aesthetic and contextual


    alliances with hip-hop"?

    MadeItthroughThatWaterbeginswithacompactphrase,orriff,onthetuba
    thatthenrepeatsthroughouttheentiresong,inthepatternoffunkbasslinesthat
    werethensampled,sequenced,orimitatedinhiphop.

    Why is WWOZ anti-rap, when for principal culture bearers like Derrick
    Tabb, brass bands and hip-hop do not occupy separate domains of his
    life?

    Rapisnotpartoftheformat....ThatsnotOZ....Therearesomeavid
    listeners,andwheneverweveplayedrap,theycallandsay,Thatsnotwhy
    weretuningintoOZ,andthatsnotwhywesupportWWOZ.4
    maycontaminateoreradicatethem.

    How does the Black Men of Labor Social Aid and Pleasure club
    express their traditionalist position?

    repertoireofmusical,thematic,andaestheticpracticestoaligntraditionwiththeir
    experience.
    music,dress,anddancearecarefullymonitoredtoadheretoanideological
    programthatstressesrespectability.
    haveretainedaspectsofbrassbandmusicandhaveusedthepublicnatureof
    paradingtoorganizedisplaysofblackrespectability.
    paradingtoprojectpositiveimagesandsoundsofblackness.

    How did the Dirty Dozen Brass band innovate the brass band
    tradition?

    DirtyDozenmodifiedrhythms,tempos,structuralforms,andothercharacteristics
    byintegratingcontemporarystylesofblackpopularmusicespeciallyfunk,
    rhythmandblues,andmodernjazzintothebrassband.TheDozenwrotenew
    compositionsthatfeaturedmoresingingandcoveredawiderthematicrangethan
    thespiritualsandpopularsongsofpreviousgenerations.Asfarasvisual
    aesthetics,theDozengaveuptraditionaluniformsanddressedineverydayclothes
    inallperformancesettings,

    How did Soul Rebels draw on the innovations of the Dirty Dozen and
    innovate further?

    constructingsongsthatareintentionallyproducedforrecordingsandamplified
    performances.
    accelerativeculture,anattempttoovercomeentropicforcesofdeceleration,an
    attempttoimpartapositiveaccelerativeforcetoculture.
    groundbreakinginpartbecausethebandwaslookingtohiphopforthematicas
    wellasmusicaldirection.

    How do the Baby Boyz, with whom Sakakeeny ends the chapter,
    represent a new chapter in the history of brass bands?

    olderrepertoiresuchasIllFlyAwayandWhentheSaintsGoMarchingIn
    togetherwiththemusicofDirtyDozen,Rebirth,andotherprogressives.

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