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J Dilla's Donuts (Paperback)
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J Dilla's Donuts (Paperback)
Series: 33 1/3
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Discovery Miles 2 700
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From a Los Angeles hospital bed, equipped with little more than a
laptop and a stack of records, James "J Dilla" Yancey crafted a set
of tracks that would forever change the way beatmakers viewed their
artform. The songs on "Donuts "are not hip hop music as "hip hop
music" is typically defined; they careen and crash into each other,
in one moment noisy and abrasive, gorgeous and heartbreaking the
next. The samples and melodies tell the story of a man coming to
terms with his declining health, a final love letter to the family
and friends he was leaving behind. As a prolific producer with a
voracious appetite for the history and mechanics of the music he
loved, J Dilla knew the records that went into constructing "Donuts
"inside and out. He could have taken them all and made a much
different, more accessible album. If the widely accepted view is
that his final work is a record about dying, the question becomes
why did he make this record about dying?Drawing from philosophy,
critical theory and musicology, as well as Dilla's own musical
catalogue, Jordan Ferguson shows that the contradictory, irascible
and confrontational music found on "Donuts "is as much a result of
an artist's declining health as it is an example of what scholars
call "late style," placing the album in a musical tradition that
stretches back centuries.
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