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Record Nr.

UNISA996248279303316

Autore

Schloss Joseph Glenn

Titolo

Making beats : the art of sample-based hip-hop / / Joseph G. Schloss ; with a new afterword foreword by Jeff Chang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Middletown, Connecticut : , : Wesleyan University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8195-7482-1

9780819574824

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 246 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Music/Culture

Disciplina

782.421649/149

Soggetti

Rap (Music) - History and criticism

Hip-hop

Turntablism

Sound recording executives and producers - United States

Turntablists

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references, discrographies and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- "It's about Playing Records" : History -- "It Just Doesn't Sound Authentic" : Live Instrumentation versus Hip-Hop Purism -- Materials and Inspiration : Digging in the Crates -- Sampling Ethics -- Elements of Style : Aesthetics of Hip-Hop Composition -- The Outer Circle : From Samplers to Ears -- Conclusions -- New afterword.

Sommario/riassunto

First book on hip-hop sampling as a musical process, now with a new foreword and afterword