Making Beats: The Art of Sample-Based Hip-Hop

First book on hip—hop sampling as a musical process, now with a new foreword and afterword

Winner of IASPM's 2005 International Book Award

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. 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 ...