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- Making Beats: The Art of Sample-Based Hip-Hop
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: Wesleyan University Press
- Series: Music Culture
summary
Despite having created one of the most important musical cultures of the last fifty years, hip-hop composers who use digital sampling are rarely taken seriously as artists. But hip-hop deejays and producers have collectively developed an artistic system that features a complex aesthetic, a detailed array of social protocols, a rigorous set of ethical expectations and a rich historical consciousness.
Based on ten years of research among hip-hop producers, Making Beats is the first work of scholarship to explore the goals, methods and values of this surprisingly insular community. Focusing on a variety of subjects--from hip-hop artists' pedagogical methods to the Afro-diasporic 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.
Based on ten years of research among hip-hop producers, Making Beats is the first work of scholarship to explore the goals, methods and values of this surprisingly insular community. Focusing on a variety of subjects--from hip-hop artists' pedagogical methods to the Afro-diasporic 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.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. 2-9
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-15
- 1 Introduction
- pp. 1-24
- 5 Sampling Ethics
- pp. 101-134
- 7 The Outer Circle: From Samplers to Ears
- pp. 169-194
- 8 Conclusions
- pp. 195-198
- Bibliography
- pp. 209-216
- Interviews by Author
- pp. 217-220
- Discography
- pp. 221-236
- About the Author
- pp. 226-241
Additional Information
ISBN
9780819574220
MARC Record
OCLC
848918836
Pages
272
Launched on MUSE
2013-10-21
Language
English
Open Access
No