For Monday, 2 May

Prep

 

  • Joseph Schloss, ‘Sampling Ethics’, in Forman and Neal (2012). keywords: biting; chopping; ‘digging in the crates’; ethnography; flipping; looping. 
  • Video: Mark Ronson, ‘How Sampling Transformed Music’ (9 May 2014). At once a documentation of the Slick RIck’s influence, a deft appreciation of the art of sampling, and a virtuoso demonstration of how it’s done! keywords: pastiche; interpellating vs. sampling.

In Class

 

  1. Attendance
  2. Review: Which sources are good ones?
  3. Q&A: Chopping, Screwing, Sampling
  4. Reading Notes for Next Time

For Next Time

  • Michail Exarchos, ‘Boom Bap Ex Machina: Hip-Hop Aesthetics and the Akai MPC’, in Russ Hepworth-Sawyer, Jay Hodgson, and Mark Marrington, eds., Producing Music (Routledge, 2019)
  • Video: ‘How J Dilla Humanized His MPC3000’, Vox Earworm (6 December 2017).