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Rhymin' and Stealin' - Musical Borrowing in Hip-Hop (Paperback)
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Rhymin' and Stealin' - Musical Borrowing in Hip-Hop (Paperback)
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Rhymin' and Stealin' begins with a crucial premise: the fundamental
element of hip-hop culture and aesthetics is the overt use of
preexisting material to new ends. Whether it is taking an old dance
move for a breakdancing battle, using spray paint to create street
art, quoting from a famous speech, or sampling a rapper or 1970s
funk song, hip-hop aesthetics involve borrowing from the past. By
appropriating and reappropriating these elements, they become
transformed into something new, something different, something
hip-hop. Rhymin' and Stealin' is the first book-length study of
musical borrowing in hip-hop music, which not only includes digital
sampling but also demonstrates a wider web of references and
quotations within the hip-hop world. Examples from Nas, Jay-Z, A
Tribe Called Quest, Eminem, and many others show that the
transformation of preexisting material is the fundamental element
of hip-hop aesthetics. Although all music genres use and adapt
preexisting material in different ways, hip-hop music celebrates
and flaunts its "open source" culture through highly varied means.
It is this interest in the web of references, borrowed material,
and digitally sampled sounds that forms the basis of this book -
sampling and other types of borrowing becomes a framework with
which to analyze hip-hop music and wider cultural trends.
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