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Paul's Boutique and Fear of a Black Planet: Digital Sampling and Musical Style in Hip Hop
- Author(s):
- Amanda Sewell (see profile)
- Date:
- 2014
- Subject(s):
- Musicology, Hip-hop
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- musical borrowing, Hip Hop
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6DS0S
- Abstract:
- The Beastie Boys’ Paul’s Boutique (1989) and Public Enemy’s Fear of a Black Planet (1990) often draw comparisons because of their profuse and eclectic use of digital sampling. These two hip hop albums, however, use sampling in markedly different ways, a fact that is obscured because no well-developed language exists to differentiate how and why their sampling styles differ. To account for these differences, this article proposes a typology for sample-based hip hop, a systematic terminological and conceptual approach to this repertory. Using these two classic albums by the Beastie Boys and Public Enemy as case studies, this typology offers a way to describe and distinguish in concrete terms the richly varied musical styles that make up sample-based hip hop.
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- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article Show details
- Pub. DOI:
- 10.1017/S175219631300059X
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Pub. Date:
- 2014-3-12
- Journal:
- Journal of the Society for American Music
- Volume:
- 8
- Issue:
- 01
- Page Range:
- 28 - 48
- ISSN:
- 1752-1963,1752-1971
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 6 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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Paul's Boutique and Fear of a Black Planet: Digital Sampling and Musical Style in Hip Hop