Making Beats The Art Of Sample Based Hip Hop

Author: Joseph G. Schloss

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  • : $45.00 AUD
  • : 9780819574817
  • : Wesleyan University Press
  • : Wesleyan University Press
  • : November 2014
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  • : Joseph G. Schloss
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Barcode 9780819574817
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Based on ten years of research among hip-hop producers, Making Beats was the first work of scholarship to explore the goals, methods, and values of a surprisingly insular community. Focusing on a variety of subjects-from hip-hop artists' pedagogical methods to the Afrodiasporic roots of the sampling process to the social significance of "digging" for rare records-Joseph G. Schloss examines the way hip-hop artists have managed to create a form of expression that reflects their creative aspirations, moral beliefs, political values, and cultural realities. This second edition of the book includes a new foreword by Jeff Chang and a new afterword by the author.