num_pages: 272
description: 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.
language: English
title: Making Beats: The Art of Sample-Based Hip-Hop
titlecomplete: Making Beats: The Art of Sample-Based Hip-Hop (Music / Culture)
genres: Nonfiction, Music, Hip Hop, Art
ratings_count: 127
publisher: Wesleyan University Press