Camp Lo's Uptown Saturday Night

Patrick Rivers, William Fulton

ISBN 10: 1501322729 / ISBN 13: 9781501322723

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, US, 2017

About this Item

Geechi Suede and Sonny Cheeba are Camp Lo. These two emcees from the Bronx, NY entered the American hip hop scene with an insider slang that bewildered listeners as they radiated the look of a bygone era of black culture. In 1996, they collaborated with producer Ski and a host of other contributors to create Uptown Saturday Night, featuring the seminal single "Luchini (a.k.a. This is It)." While other 1990s rappers referred to 1970s Blaxploitation culture, Camp Lo were self-described "time travelers" who weaved the slang and style of a soulful past into state-of-the-art lyrical flows. Uptown Saturday Night is a tapestry of 1970s black popular culture and 1990s New York City hip hop. This volume will detail how the album's fantastic world of "Coolie High" reflected classic films like Cooley High and the Sidney Poitier film from which the album's title is derived, and promoted vintage slang and fashion. The book features new interviews with Camp Lo, producer Ski, Trugoy the Dove from De La Soul, Ish from Digable Planets, and others, and offers musical and cultural analyses that detail the development of the album and its essential contributions to a post-soul aesthetic.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Camp Lo's Uptown Saturday Night
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, US
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1501322729
• ISBN 13: 9781501322723
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 155 grams

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Synopsis

Geechi Suede and Sonny Cheeba are Camp Lo. These two emcees from the Bronx, NY entered the American hip hop scene with an insider slang that bewildered listeners as they radiated the look of a bygone era of black culture. In 1996, they collaborated with producer Ski and a host of other contributors to create Uptown Saturday Night, featuring the seminal single “Luchini (a.k.a. This is It).” While other 1990s rappers referred to 1970s Blaxploitation culture, Camp Lo were self-described “time travelers” who weaved the slang and style of a soulful past into state-of-the-art lyrical flows.

Uptown Saturday Night is a tapestry of 1970s black popular culture and 1990s New York City hip hop. This volume will detail how the album's fantastic world of “Coolie High” reflected classic films like Cooley High and the Sidney Poitier film from which the album's title is derived, and promoted vintage slang and fashion. The book features new interviews with Camp Lo, producer Ski, Trugoy the Dove from De La Soul, Ish from Digable Planets, and others, and offers musical and cultural analyses that detail the development of the album and its essential contributions to a post-soul aesthetic.

About the Authors

Patrick Rivers is an ethnomusicologist and an Assistant Professor of Music at the University of New Haven, USA. His research focuses on the impact of the recorded object, and the act of recording on the aesthetic choices, group organization, and self-identification of creators and consumers of music.

William Fulton is an Associate Professor of Music at LaGuardia Community College, USA. He has contributed articles to The Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies, American Music Review, and the Grove Dictionary of American Music. Will is a record producer, former A&R Director for Profile Records, and a Ph.D Candidate in Musicology at the City University of New York.