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Groove Music: The Art and Culture of the Hip-Hop DJ
Mark Katz
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Description for Groove Music: The Art and Culture of the Hip-Hop DJ
Paperback. Discusses the evolution of the DJ, tracing the art of the turntable from its 1970s beginnings to the present. Num Pages: 352 pages, 42 photographs and illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGR; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 494.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
466g
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195331127
SKU
V9780195331127
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About Mark Katz
Mark Katz is Associate Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Capturing Sound: How Technology has Changed Music and editor of the Journal of the Society for American Music. He is a violinist, a radio DJ, and an aspiring turntablist.
Reviews for Groove Music: The Art and Culture of the Hip-Hop DJ
readable and engaging.
Thomas Kelly, Sunday Business Post
This excellent book draws on 10 years of interviews with some of the key figures in hip hop's emergence and development ... a gripping study.
James Wilsdon, Times Higher Education Supplement
[Katz's] book manages to be both lively and academic - some achievement.
Susan Elkin, The Stage ... Read more
Thomas Kelly, Sunday Business Post
This excellent book draws on 10 years of interviews with some of the key figures in hip hop's emergence and development ... a gripping study.
James Wilsdon, Times Higher Education Supplement
[Katz's] book manages to be both lively and academic - some achievement.
Susan Elkin, The Stage ... Read more