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

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

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 11/01/2014
ISBN: 9780819574817
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 9.77h x 5.08w x 0.77d