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The New York City blackout of 1977 was a game changer for the music industry.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

At the time, disc jockey culture was heating up in homes and clubs, but equipment was expensive.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

However, when the blackout struck, people looted electronic stores for mixers, speakers and turntables. The upheaval soon mushroomed into street parties and competitions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPeople were setting up two turntables, a mixer and huge speakers right there on the streets. And you would see DJs picking up vinyl records and dropping them and doing tricks,\u201d said Scott S. McCartney, who developed a passion for the artform when he was nine. \u201cI saw [DJing] from [its] birth and that’s when it became a passion for me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Forty-seven years later, McCartney\u2014now a professional disc jockey known as <\/span>DJ Smoove (the Rough)<\/span><\/a><\/span> \u2014is launching an <\/span>introduction to DJing course at Kendall Campus <\/span><\/a><\/span>this summer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTo be able to share my knowledge and experience and watch how these turntables are gonna change lives for this new generation of DJs\u2026makes me excited in my soul,\u201d McCartney said. \u201cI really want people to be excited to go to college again, to be excited about being a musician again, to be excited about incorporating current technology in their pursuit of happiness and being successful. That lets me know I left a good mark in society and in this world.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The idea for the course, which will run from June 17 through July 25 and is being billed as the first of its kind at Kendall Campus, bloomed two years ago while he was pursuing an associate\u2019s degree in music business at MDC.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>At the time, McCartney was interning as a DJ instructor at Coconut Palm K-8 Academy.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI noticed that it started to change their life; they became better people,\u201d McCartney said. \u201cThey learned how to overcome being scared and intimidated.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The 56-year-old wanted to bring that same excitement to MDC. So he partnered with Stephen Quinzi, a professor in the music business department at Kendall Campus, Melissa Lesniak, the chairperson of the performing arts and industries department and Timothy Brent, the former chairperson, to make that dream a reality.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

They used part of a $300,000 grant from the Carl D. Perkins Program\u2014a federal initiative aimed at developing technical education programs\u2014to purchase turntables, speakers, mixers and vinyl records, computers, DJ consoles, USB controllers and microphones.<\/span><\/p>\n

McCartney\u2014who created the <\/span>S Foundation<\/span><\/a><\/span>, a non-profit organization aimed at enriching the lives of students in underserved populations through music 21 years ago and has worked as a radio DJ personality at WEXY 1520 for more than three years\u2014was an ideal candidate to teach the course.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHis level of detail and focus into this\u2014his personality\u2014is such that I thought that he was the type of individual that would be accessible for our students,\u201d said Qunzi, who helped develop the course\u2019s curriculum and served as McCartney\u2019s professor for six courses at MDC.<\/span><\/p>\n

The course aims to teach the fundamentals of DJing such as mixing and beat matching, the genre’s history and how to market the craft on social media.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Classes will be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11:40 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Room 8109. To register for the class\u2014MUM 1930\u2014students can log into their MDConnect portal by visiting <\/span>https:\/\/bit.ly\/3yxMaPh<\/span><\/a><\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Maria Castellanos, an international student studying music education at Kendall Campus, found out about the course from Quinzi last spring and decided to enroll.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The 23-year-old hopes to learn about sampling\u2014a technique in which DJ\u2019s use part of an existing song and add it to a new piece of music\u2014and combine her Colombian roots with hip-hop.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI hope [the course] allows us to play live and at least have our first chance to behave as DJs, so we can [get] the real experience of it,\u201d Castellanos said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Click here<\/a><\/span> to subscribe to our bi-weekly newsletter, The Hammerhead. For news tips, contact us at mdc.thereporter@gmail.com.<\/span><\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n

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