Prep
- Charles Holmes, ‘“He Shook the World”: George Floyd’s Legendary Houston Legacy’, Rolling Stone (2 June 2020).
- Audio: ‘Big Floyd and the Rise of Houston Chopped N Screwed Music’, Switched on Pop (9 June 2020)
In Class
- Attendance
- Q&A: TBA
- Story Maps Workshop
- Reading Notes for Next Time
- 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.
