Bring That Beat Back: How Sampling Built Hip-Hop

by Nate Patrin

Book Overview

How sampling remade hip-hop over forty years, from pioneering superstar Grandmaster Flash through crate-digging preservationist and innovator Madlib

Sampling--incorporating found sound and manipulating it into another form entirely--has done more than any musical movement in the twentieth century to maintain a continuum of popular music as a living document and, in the process, has become one of the most successful (and commercial)...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517906288
• ISBN13: 9781517906283
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"