"Reading Hip-Hop: Off the Records, In the Books" with Joseph G. Schloss
"Reading Hip-Hop: Off the Records, In the Books" is an interdisciplinary hip-hop lecture series that provides a forum for discussion with authors who chart what we know and understand about hip-hop.
Lecture topics cover hip-hop fiction, the business of hip-hop, sampling, fashion, music politics and culture.
Joseph Schloss is the author of Making Beats: The Art of Sample-Based Hip-Hop, which won the 2005 Book Award from the International Association for the Study of Popular Music. His writing has appeared in URB, Vibe, The Seattle Weekly, The Flavor, and the anthologies Classic Material and Total Chaos. Despite having created one of the most important musical cultures of the last fifty years, hip-hop composers who use digital sampling are rarely taken seriously as artists. But hip-hop deejays and producers have collectively developed an artistic system that features a complex aesthetic, a detailed array of social protocols, a rigorous set of ethical expectations and a rich historical consciousness.
Based on ten years of research among hip-hop producers, Making Beats is the first work of scholarship to explore the goals, methods and values of this surprisingly insular community. Focusing on a variety of subjects--from hip-hop artists' pedagogical methods to the Afro-diasporic roots of the sampling process to the social significance of "digging" for rare records--Joseph G. Schloss examines the way hip-hop artists have managed to create a form of expression that reflects their creative aspirations, moral beliefs, political values and cultural realities.
Date:
November 4, 2011
Time:
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
College:
The City College of New York
Address:
25 Broadway, 7th Floor
Manhattan
Building:
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Room:
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Phone:
212-925-6625
Website:
http://www.https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/cwe
Admission:
Free