Making beats : the art of sample-based hip-hop / Joseph G. Schloss.

Author/creator Schloss, Joseph Glenn
Format Book
Publication InfoMiddletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press, ©2004.
Descriptionxiii, 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesMusic/culture
Music/culture. ^A390481
Contents "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.
Abstract 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, this book 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--the author 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.
Local noteLittle-349147--305131055448$
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 209-216), discography (pages 221), and index.
LCCN 2004043013
ISBN0819566950 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780819566959 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0819566969 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780819566966 (pbk. : alk. paper)