9780826429131-0826429130-Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (33 1/3)

Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (33 1/3)

ISBN-13: 9780826429131
ISBN-10: 0826429130
Edition: 1
Author: Christopher R. Weingarten
Publication date: 2010
Publisher: Continuum
Format: Paperback 160 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780826429131
ISBN-10: 0826429130
Edition: 1
Author: Christopher R. Weingarten
Publication date: 2010
Publisher: Continuum
Format: Paperback 160 pages

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Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (33 1/3) (ISBN-13: 9780826429131 and ISBN-10: 0826429130), written by authors Christopher R. Weingarten, was published by Continuum in 2010. With an overall rating of 4.0 stars, it's a notable title among other History & Criticism (Music) books. You can easily purchase or rent Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (33 1/3) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used History & Criticism books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.93.

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Christopher R. Weingarten provides a thrilling account of how the Bomb Squad produced such a singular-sounding record: engineering, sampling, scratching, constructing, deconstructing, reconstructing - even occasionally stomping
on vinyl that sounded too clean. Using production techniques that have never been duplicated, the Bomb Squad plundered
and reconfigured their own compositions to make frenetic splatter collages; they played samples by hand together in a
room like a rock band to create a "not quite right" tension; they hand-picked their samples from only the ugliest squawks and sirens.




Weingarten treats the samples used on Nation Of Millions as molecules of a greater whole, slivers of music that retain their own secret histories and folk traditions. Can the essence of a hip-hop record be found in the motives, emotions and energies of the artists it samples? Is it likely that something an artist intended 20 years ago would re-emerge anew? This is a compelling and thoroughly researched investigation that tells the story of one of hip-hop's landmark albums.

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