Making Beats: The Art of Sample-Based Hip-Hop (Music / Culture)

Schloss, Joseph G.

ISBN 10: 0819566969 / ISBN 13: 9780819566966

Published by Wesleyan University Press, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Making Beats: The Art of Sample-Based Hip-Hop (Music / Culture)
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0819566969
• ISBN 13: 9780819566966
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

JOSEPH G. SCHLOSS is Lecturer in Music at Tufts University. He received the Society for Ethnomusicology's Charles Seeger Prize in 2000, and his writing has appeared in URB, The Seattle Weekly, The Flavor and the anthology Classic Material. He lives in Brooklyn.