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ISBN-10: 0819574813
ISBN-13: 9780819574817
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publish Date: 11/01/2014
Dimensions: 9.00" L, 6.00" W, 0.90" H

Making Beats: The Art of Sample-Based Hip-Hop

Other: Jeff Chang

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Price: $24.95

Overview

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

Winner of IASPM’s 2005 International Book Award

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.

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"The best thing about Making Beats is its assiduous in-depth coverage of the topic. The breadth of Schloss's work is remarkable."–Philip Ewell, Popular Music

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Details

ISBN-10: 0819574813
ISBN-13: 9780819574817
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publish Date: 11/01/2014
Dimensions: 9.00" L, 6.00" W, 0.90" H
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