Reimagining Sample-based Hip Hop: Making Records within Records
- Author: Exarchos, Michail
Reimagining Sample-based Hip Hop: Making Records within Records
- Author: Exarchos, Michail
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Reimagining Sample-based Hip Hop: Making Records within Records presents the poetics of hip-hop record production and the significance of sample material in record making, providing analysis of key releases in hip-hop discography and interviews with experts from the world of Hip Hop and beyond.
Beginning with the history of hip-hop music making, this book guides the reader through the alternative techniques deployed by beat-makers to avoid the use of copyrighted samples and concludes with a consideration of the future of Hip Hop, alongside a companion album that has been created using findings from this research. Challenging previous theoretical understandings about Hip Hop, the author focuses on deconstructing sonic phenomena using his hands-on engineering expertise and in-depth musicological knowledge about record production.
With a significant emphasis on both practice and theory, Reimagining Sample-based Hip Hop will be of interest to advanced undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers working in audio engineering, music production, hip-hop studies, and musicology.
Contents
- 0. Sample-based Hip Hop as metamodern phonographic practice (An autoethnography of oscillating between- and beyond -analogue nostalgia and digital futurism)
- Part 1 : (Inter-stylistic) Composition, and Tools
- 1. Sonic necessity, mother of compositional invention (Making Blues for sample-based Hip Hop)
- 2. Boom-bap aesthetics and the machine
- Part 2 : (Reverse) Engineering
- 3. Sonic pasts in Hip Hop's future
- Part 3 : (The magic of sample-based) Production
- 4. Phonographic ghosts and meta-illusions in contemporary beat-making
- Part 4 : Mixing (records within records)
- 5. Manufacturing phonographic 'otherness' for sample-based Hip Hop
- Part 5 : (Exponential) Re/Mastering
- 6. 'Past' masters, present beats
