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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schloss, Joseph Glenn, author.

Contributor:

Chang, Jeff.

Series:

Music/culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rap (Music)--History and criticism.

Rap (Music).

Hip-hop.

Turntablism.

Turntablists.

Rap (Music)--Production and direction--History.

History.

Genre:

History.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xv, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Other Title:

Art of sample-based hip-hop

Place of Publication:

Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, 2014.

Summary:

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 artistsʹ 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. -- Publisher description.

Contents:

Introduction

- "Itʹs about playing records": History

- "It just doesnʹt sound authentic": Live Instrumentation vs. 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.

Notes:

Originally published: 2004.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-236), discography (page 241), and index.

ISBN:

9780819574817

0819574813

0819566950

9780819566959

0819566969

9780819566966

OCLC:

894609709

Publisher Number:

99978117289