Groove music : the art and culture of the hip-hop DJ / Mark Katz.

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Katz, Mark, 1970- [author.]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780199716050
0199716056
9781280594427
128059442X

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Groove music.DDC classification:

782.421649 23

LOC classification:

ML3531 .K37 2012eb

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J605

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Contents:

The breaks and the Bronx: 1973-1975 -- Mix and scratch-The turntable becomes a musical instrument: 1975-1978 -- Out of the Bronx and into the shadows: 1978-1983 -- Expansions: 1983-1989 -- Turntablism: 1989-1996 -- The art of war-The DJ battle: 1991-1996 -- Legitimacy: 1996-2002 -- Falling barriers: 2002-2011 --Conclusion: Full circle -- Appendix 1: The DJ's instrument -- Appendix 2: Raw materials and finished products: Breaks, tracks, and albums -- Appendix 3: Major battle winners, 1981-2011.

Summary: It's all about the scratch in Groove Music, award-winning music historian Mark Katz's groundbreaking book about the figure that defined hip-hop: the DJ. Today hip-hop is a global phenomenon, and the sight and sound of DJs mixing and scratching is familiar in every corner of the world. But hip-hop was born in the streets of New York in the 1970s when a handful of teenagers started experimenting with spinning vinyl records on turntables in new ways. Although rapping has become the face of hip-hop, for nearly 40 years the DJ has proven the backbone of the culture. In Groove Music, Katz (an amateur.

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It's all about the scratch in Groove Music, award-winning music historian Mark Katz's groundbreaking book about the figure that defined hip-hop: the DJ. Today hip-hop is a global phenomenon, and the sight and sound of DJs mixing and scratching is familiar in every corner of the world. But hip-hop was born in the streets of New York in the 1970s when a handful of teenagers started experimenting with spinning vinyl records on turntables in new ways. Although rapping has become the face of hip-hop, for nearly 40 years the DJ has proven the backbone of the culture. In Groove Music, Katz (an amateur.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-312), discography (296-302) , and index.

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