Rhymin' and stealin' : musical borrowing in hip-hop music

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Label

Rhymin' and stealin' : musical borrowing in hip-hop music

Title remainder

musical borrowing in hip-hop music

Statement of responsibility

Justin A. Williams

Title variation

• Rhymin' and stealin'
• Rhymin' & stealin'

Creator

• Williams, Justin A

Subject

• Entlehnung
• Hip-Hop
• Musik
• Rap (Music)
• Rap (Music) -- History and criticism
• Zitat
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

"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." -- Publisher's description

Member of

• Tracking pop

Cataloging source

DLC

Illustrations

• illustrations
• music

Index

no index present

LC call number

ML3531

LC item number

.W546 2013

Literary form

non fiction

Series statement

Tracking pop