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It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Paperback
Series: 33 1/3
Hip HopPop/RockMusic Reference
Publisher Price: $14.95
ISBN13: 9780826429131
Publisher: Continuum
Published: Apr 8 2010
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.50 Width: 4.70 Depth: 6.50
Language: English
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 stomping
on vinyl that sounded too clean. Using production techniques that have never been duplicated, the Bomb Squad plundered
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.
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