Rhymin' and stealin' : musical borrowing in hip-hop / Justin A. Williams.
2013
ML3531 .W546 2013eb
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Rhymin' and stealin' : musical borrowing in hip-hop / Justin A. Williams.
Author
Williams, Justin A.
ISBN
9781299782426 (electronic book)
1299782426 (electronic book)
9780472029396 (electronic book)
0472029398 (electronic book)
0472118927
9780472118922
1299782426 (electronic book)
9780472029396 (electronic book)
0472029398 (electronic book)
0472118927
9780472118922
Publication Details
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2013.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvi, 256 pages) : illustrations.
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ML3531 .W546 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
782.421649
Summary
"Rhymin' and Stealin' begins with a crucial premise: the fundamental element of hip-hop culture and aesthetics is the overt use of preexisting material to new ends. Whether it is taking an old dance move for a breakdancing battle, using spray paint to create street art, quoting from a famous speech, or sampling a rapper or 1970s funk song, hip-hop aesthetics involve borrowing from the past. By appropriating and reappropriating these elements, they become transformed into something new, something different, something hip-hop. Rhymin' and Stealin' is the first book-length study of musical borrowing in hip-hop music, which not only includes digital sampling but also demonstrates a wider web of references and quotations within the hip-hop world. Examples from Nas, Jay-Z, A Tribe Called Quest, Eminem, and many others show that the transformation of preexisting material is the fundamental element of hip-hop aesthetics. Although all music genres use and adapt preexisting material in different ways, hip-hop music celebrates and flaunts its "open source" culture through highly varied means. It is this interest in the web of references, borrowed material, and digitally sampled sounds that forms the basis of this book--sampling and other types of borrowing becomes a framework with which to analyze hip-hop music and wider cultural trends."--Publisher's description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Historicizing the breakbeat : hip-hop's origins and authenticity
The construction of jazz rap as high art in hip-hop music
Dr. Dre's "Jeep beats" and musical borrowing for the automotive space
The martyr industry : Tupac Shakur, the Notorious B.I.G., and postmortem sampling
Borrowing and lineage in Eminem/2Pac's Loyal to the game and 50 Cent's Get rich or die trying
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Discography
Filmography
Index.
Historicizing the breakbeat : hip-hop's origins and authenticity
The construction of jazz rap as high art in hip-hop music
Dr. Dre's "Jeep beats" and musical borrowing for the automotive space
The martyr industry : Tupac Shakur, the Notorious B.I.G., and postmortem sampling
Borrowing and lineage in Eminem/2Pac's Loyal to the game and 50 Cent's Get rich or die trying
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Discography
Filmography
Index.