Christopher R. Weingarten: Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Buch
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 06/2010
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, ,
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780826429131
- Bestellnummer: 2217865
- Umfang: 160 Seiten
- Gewicht: 140 g
- Maße: 166 x 121 mm
- Stärke: 17 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 10.6.2010
- Serie: 33 1/3
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
Christopher R. Weingarten provides a thrilling account of how the Bomb Squad produced such a singular-sounding record: engineering, sampling, scratching, constructing, deconstructing, reconstructing - even occasionally stompingon vinyl that sounded too clean. Using production techniques that have never been duplicated, the Bomb Squad plundered
and reconfigured their own compositions to make frenetic splatter collages; they played samples by hand together in a
room like a rock band to create a "not quite right" tension; they hand-picked their samples from only the ugliest squawks and sirens.
Weingarten treats the samples used on Nation Of Millions as molecules of a greater whole, slivers of music that retain their own secret histories and folk traditions. Can the essence of a hip-hop record be found in the motives, emotions and energies of the artists it samples? Is it likely that something an artist intended 20 years ago would re-emerge anew? This is a compelling and thoroughly researched investigation that tells the story of one of hip-hop's landmark albums.