Bring That Beat Back: How Sampling Built Hip-Hop [Audiobook]
English | July 21, 2020 | ASIN: B08BX92WJY | M4B@128 kbps | 12h 42m | 692 MB
Author: Nate Patrin | Narrator: David Sadzin
English | July 21, 2020 | ASIN: B08BX92WJY | M4B@128 kbps | 12h 42m | 692 MB
Author: Nate Patrin | Narrator: David Sadzin
Sampling - incorporating found sound and manipulating it into another form entirely - has done more than any musical movement in the 20th 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 40 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.