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Kerim<\/a> argues for an Open Source Anthro<\/a>, asking “Can the Subaltern Google?”<\/p>\n \/\/\/<\/p>\n While we’re at it, allow me to point you to an article I’ve got in a forthcoming “hip-hop issue” of Callaloo<\/a>: “Giving Up Hip-hop’s Firstborn: A Quest for the Real after the Death of Sampling” (pdf<\/a>). It’s a recent rivisitation of an ol’ master’s thesis spin-off (a revised chapter really — the other one’s on DJ Premier). Reading ?uestlove’s and the Roots’ musical and extramusical gestures as producing a poetics of the “real,” I examine the effects of copyright law on hip-hop production in the late 90s and the investment of sampled sounds with authenticity. High hip-hop theory (or high theory hip-hop [or hip-hop theory high]), if you’re into that sort of thing. I try to keep it grounded in sound and sentiment, though, knamean?<\/p>\n In addition to doing a close reading of ?uestlove’s “History of Sampling,” as published in Rap Pages<\/em>, wherein the drummer slyly threads a consistent record of “trad” instrumental practice into and against the development of sample-based techniques, I attempt to explicate the musical poetics at work in the group’s invocations and reformations of hip-hop’s signpost features, focusing largely on Black Thought’s flow and ?uest’s drumming and timbral concerns. <\/p>\n Take, for example, the following (loose) transcription of Black Thought’s flow on the first verse of “Concerto of the Desperado” (listen along and see what you think — rhymes are in bold, with internal rhymes italicized): If you want to check out my analysis, peep the paper<\/a> (esp pp. 12-6). And go ask for Callaloo<\/a> at your local library. And pick up a copy of Illadelph Halflife<\/a> too for that matter.<\/p>\n \/\/\/<\/p>\n And what of new kickass<\/a>? A spam allegory, perhaps? Take it, Personal.<\/p>\n \/\/ &also \/\/<\/p>\n Gastrosonic<\/em> Tourism<\/a>: See, Taste, and Hear Italy — and Binaurally<\/a>, at that!! (Such surreal soundtracking: the first Roman Recording<\/a> — skip down to Day One — picks up zooming taxis and a street band playing Piazzola.)<\/p>\n For more in the food’n’sound bloggin’ biz: see Soul Cocina<\/a> (as prev mentioned here), GrubNoise<\/a>, and FancyToast<\/a> (though that’s just a food blog, written by a musician).<\/p>\n Mmm hmmm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \/\/\/ Go go text-sharing blogs: Greg Scruggs offers up Paul Sneed’s’s doctoral thesis on funky Rio. \/\/\/ Kerim argues for an Open Source Anthro, asking “Can the Subaltern Google?” \/\/\/ While we’re at it, allow me to point you to an article I’ve got in a forthcoming “hip-hop issue” of Callaloo: “Giving Up Hip-hop’s Firstborn: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,7],"tags":[400,28,39,85,404,423,24],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic","category-uncategorized","category-hip-hop","tag-academic","tag-anthro","tag-food","tag-funkcarioca","tag-hip-hop","tag-linkthink","tag-spampoem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8807,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/8807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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