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    Bring That Beat Back: How Sampling Built Hip-Hop
    Bring That Beat Back: How Sampling Built Hip-Hop
    Bring That Beat Back: How Sampling Built Hip-Hop
    Audiobook12 hours

    Bring That Beat Back: How Sampling Built Hip-Hop

    Written by Nate Patrin

    Narrated by David Sadzin

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    About this audiobook

    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) strains of postmodern art. Bring That Beat Back traces the development of this transformative pop-cultural practice from its origins in the turntable-manning, record-spinning hip-hop DJs of 1970s New York through forty years of musical innovation and reinvention.

    Nate Patrin tells the story of how sampling built hip-hop through the lens of four pivotal artists: Grandmaster Flash as the popular face of the music's DJ-born beginnings; Prince Paul as an early champion of sampling's potential to elaborate on and rewrite music history; Dr. Dre as the superstar who personified the rise of a stylistically distinct regional sound while blurring the lines between sampling and composition; and Madlib as the underground experimentalist and record-collector antiquarian who constantly broke the rules of what the mainstream expected from hip-hop.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJul 21, 2020
    ISBN9781705227664
    Bring That Beat Back: How Sampling Built Hip-Hop

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    • 5/5
      Love that it's so much more than a book on the history of sampling, which it absolutely does a great job covering, but it's also an extensive coverage on the history of Hip-hop culture.