Bring that beat back : how sampling built hip-hop / Nate Patrin.
"Bring That Beat Back: How Sampling Built Hip-Hop is a proposed history of how sampling, as a wholly new form of creating and commenting on music, became a vital part of hip-hop's DNA, from the NY DJs in the late 1970s to today. The story will arc across four DJs who pushed this technology and appro...
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Minneapolis, MN :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2020]
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| Physical Description: | xii, 347 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction : The art of the loop
- Part I : The grandmaster. Wheels of steel : How DJs became artists ; Change the best : Hip-hop's first crossover ; Funky drummer ; Sampling reaches the people
- Part II : The prince. Synthetic substitution : A new medium finds its canon ; Talkin' all that jazz : The legitimization of an art form ; Constant elevation : Hip-hop's rising underground
- Part III : The doctor. Funky enough : How the West was made ; G Thang : The producer as superstar ; Aftermath : Auteurism is a post-gangsta world
- Part IV : The Beat Konducta. The Loop digga : Sampling preserves history (and itself) ; The illest villains : High concepts and new voices ; Survival test : Hip-hop as a community
- Epilogue : Breaks and echoes.