Based on ten years of research among Hip-Hop producers, Making Beats was the first work of scholarship to explore the goals, methods, and values of a surprisingly insular community.
This second edition of the book includes a new foreword by Jeff Chang and a new afterword by the author..
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.
Focusing on a variety of subjects--from Hip-Hop artists\' pedagogical methods to the Afrodiasporic roots of the sampling process to the social significance of digging for rare records--Joseph G.
Based on ten years of research among Hip-Hop producers, Making Beats was the first work of scholarship to explore the goals, methods, and values of a surprisingly insular community
