Making Beats : The Art of Sample-Based Hip-Hop, PDF eBook

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

Part of the Music Culture series

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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 subjectsfrom hip-hop artists pedagogical methods to the Afrodiasporic roots of the sampling process to the social significance of digging for rare recordsJoseph 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.

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