The Men Behind Def Jam The Radical Rise Of Russell Simmons And Rick Rubin

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The Men Behind Def Jam: The Radical Rise Of Russell Simmons And Rick Rubin

Author : Alex Ogg
Publisher : Omnibus Press
ISBN 13 : 0857121081
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book The Men Behind Def Jam: The Radical Rise Of Russell Simmons And Rick Rubin written by Alex Ogg and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2009-12-17 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Def Jam label gave America hip hop. But who gave America Def Jam? Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin did. The Men Behind Def Jam examines the most unlikely history of the legendary label that started life in a student dorm and went on to introduce the world to LL Cool J, the Beastie Boys, Public Enemy, DMX and Jay-Z. Hustler-incarnate Russell Simmons and ex-punk Rick Rubin, the odd couple, fought and triumphed against all predictions to change the course of popular music forever. Here is an honest appraisal of these rival personalities, the quarrels, the successes and the failures of the spectacular Def Jam adventure. With Rubin and Simmons now pursuing other interests, the label continues with others at the helm, but the story of Def Jam’s birth and coming of age makes for one of pop music’s most feisty and fascinating legends.

Modern Records, Maverick Methods

Author : Samantha Bennett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501344110
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Modern Records, Maverick Methods written by Samantha Bennett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-12-27 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Fairlight CMI through MIDI to the digital audio workstations at the turn of the millennium, Modern Records, Maverick Methods examines a critical period in commercial popular music record production: the transformative digital age from the late 1970s until 2000. Drawing on a discography of more than 300 recordings across pop, rock, hip hop, dance and alternative musics from artists such as the Beastie Boys, Madonna, U2 and Fatboy Slim, and extensive and exclusive ethnographic work with many world-renowned recordists, Modern Records presents a fresh and insightful new perspective on one of the most significant eras in commercial music record production. The book traces the development of significant music technologies through the 1980s and 1990s, revealing how changing attitudes and innovative techniques of recording personnel reimagined recording processes and, finally, exemplifies the impact of these technologies and techniques via six comprehensive tech-processual analyses. This meticulously researched and timely book reveals the complexity of recordists' responses to a technological landscape in flux.

Jay-Z: The King of America

Author : Mark Beaumont
Publisher : Omnibus Press
ISBN 13 : 0857127926
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book Jay-Z: The King of America written by Mark Beaumont and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jay-Z: King of America is the first in-depth biography to dissect the life and music of the most successful rapper of all time. From crack dealing on the mean streets of New York to million dollar deals at the highest echelons of music industry, Jay-Z’s story is a whole new kind of American Dream. Updated to include recent turbulence with Kanye West, rumours of an affair with Rhianna, his latest album Magna Carta Holy Grail and troubles with his streaming service Tidal, this is the most complete biography of Jay-Z available. Author Mark Beaumont has interviewed Jay-Z, Kanye West, Busta Rhymes, LL Cool J, Damon Dash, Dr Dre, Rick Rubin and more. Revealing insights from these encounters inform this no-holds-barred biography of a great American success story. Along his winding path Jay-Z shattered barriers in rap music and has done more than anyone to make the genre the global crossover success it is today. This book includes detailed accounts of all 12 of his albums, including the seminal classic Reasonable Doubt, the landmark Blueprint trilogy and his latest gem, Magna Carta Holy Grail. Mark Beaumont traces Jay Z’s ascent to hip-hop’s throne and his pivotal role in forging modern rap music. Taking in all of the drug busts, knife attacks, entrepreneurial brilliance, premature retirements and secret weddings, this is Jay-Z’s hard knock life fully exposed… “Definitely THE book to own this Christmas, and takes his rightful place at the top of our book chart.” - RWD magazine (Leading UK urban music mag)

Kanye West: God & Monster

Author : Mark Beaumont
Publisher : Omnibus Press
ISBN 13 : 178323394X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Kanye West: God & Monster written by Mark Beaumont and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2015-04-13 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Kanye West is undoubtedly one of pop culture's most divisive and fascinating characters. Alongside his multimillion selling albums, Kanye has also launched record labels and clothing lines and in the process, become one of the most respected, creative and influential artists in music today.The most in-depth look at West's life and career to date,"--Novelist.

Jews, Race and Popular Music

Author : Jon Stratton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351561707
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Jews, Race and Popular Music written by Jon Stratton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jon Stratton provides a pioneering work on Jews as a racialized group in the popular music of America, Britain and Australia during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Rather than taking a narrative, historical approach the book consists of a number of case studies, looking at the American, British and Australian music industries. Stratton's primary motivation is to uncover how the racialized positioning of Jews, which was sometimes similar but often different in each of the societies under consideration, affected the kinds of music with which Jews have become involved. Stratton explores race as a cultural construction and continues discussions undertaken in Jewish Studies concerning the racialization of the Jews and the stereotyping of Jews in order to present an in-depth and critical understanding of Jews, race and popular music.

Other People's Property

Author : Jason Tanz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608196534
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Other People's Property written by Jason Tanz and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last quarter-century hip-hop has grown from an esoteric form of African-American expression to become the dominant form of American popular culture. Today, Snoop Dogg shills for Chrysler and white kids wear Fubu, the black-owned label whose name stands for "For Us, By Us." This is not the first time that black music has been appreciated, adopted, and adapted by white audiences-think jazz, blues, and rock-but Jason Tanz, a white boy who grew up in the suburban Northwest, says that hip-hop's journey through white America provides a unique window to examine the racial dissonance that has become a fact of our national life. In such culture-sharing Tanz sees white Americans struggling with their identity, and wrestling (often unsuccessfully) with the legacy of race. To support his anecdotally driven history of hip-hop's cross-over to white America, Tanz conducts dozens of interviews with fans, artists, producers, and promoters, including some of hip-hop's most legendary figures-such as Public Enemy's Chuck D; white rapper MC Serch; and former Yo! MTV Raps host Fab 5 Freddy. He travels across the country, visiting "nerdcore" rappers in Seattle, who rhyme about Star Wars conventions; a group of would-be gangstas in a suburb so insulated it's called "the bubble"; a break-dancing class at the upper-crusty New Canaan Tap Academy; and many more. Drawing on the author's personal experience as a white fan as well as his in-depth knowledge of hip-hop's history, Other People's Property provides a hard-edged, thought-provoking, and humorous snapshot of the particularly American intersection of race, commerce, culture, and identity.

Russell Simmons

Author : James R. Norton
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9781404205154
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Russell Simmons written by James R. Norton and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2006-01-15 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the life and career of Hip Hop star Russell Simmons.

Mediapolis

Author : Alex de Jong
Publisher : 010 Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9064506280
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (645 download)

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Download or read book Mediapolis written by Alex de Jong and published by 010 Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular culture is taking an ever firmer grip on our living environment and on our lives. Survey of the urban pop culture and of concepts of pop philosophy. Bespreking van K. Wenz 'Changing popular culture in relation to urban space' verschenen in: Krisis. (2008)1(.89-91).

The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

Author : Colin Larkin
Publisher : Omnibus Press
ISBN 13 : 0857125958
Total Pages : 1600 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Popular Music written by Colin Larkin and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2011-05-27 with total page 1600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text presents a comprehensive and up-to-date reference work on popular music, from the early 20th century to the present day.

Change the Game

Author : Walt F.J. Goodridge
Publisher : a company called W
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Change the Game written by Walt F.J. Goodridge and published by a company called W. This book was released on 2021-06-09 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attention Hip Hop Entrepreneurs! Start your own record label! Release your own music! Create your own empire! This groundbreaking guide--my first book--really did change the game when it was first published as Rap: This Game of Exposure, and with each yearly update, continues to inspire, inform and instruct each new generation of Hip Hop Entrepreneur! This is the book Hip Hop pioneer, Chuck D, raved about in his book, Fight the Power! (294 pages; 8.5 x 11; ISBN: 978-1517523992) Read more at www.hiphopentrepreneur.com

Breaks in the Air

Author : John Klaess
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478023503
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Breaks in the Air written by John Klaess and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-22 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Breaks in the Air John Klaess tells the story of rap’s emergence on New York City’s airwaves by examining how artists and broadcasters adapted hip hop’s performance culture to radio. Initially, artists and DJs brought their live practice to radio by buying time on low-bandwidth community stations and building new communities around their shows. Later, stations owned by New York’s African American elite, such as WBLS, reluctantly began airing rap even as they pursued a sound rooted in respectability, urban sophistication, and polish. At the same time, large commercial stations like WRKS programmed rap once it became clear that the music attracted a demographic that was valuable to advertisers. Moving between intimate portraits of single radio shows and broader examinations of the legal, financial, cultural, and political forces that indelibly shaped the sound of rap radio, Klaess shows how early rap radio provides a lens through which to better understand the development of rap music as well as the intertwined histories of sounds, institutions, communities, and legal formations that converged in the post-Civil Rights era.

Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

Author : Christopher R. Weingarten
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441142843
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back written by Christopher R. Weingarten and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-04-08 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher R. Weingarten provides a thrilling account of how the Bomb Squad produced such a singular-sounding record: engineering, sampling, scratching, constructing, deconstructing, reconstructing - even occasionally stomping on vinyl that sounded too clean. Using production techniques that have never been duplicated, the Bomb Squad plundered and reconfigured their own compositions to make frenetic splatter collages; they played samples by hand together in a room like a rock band to create a "not quite right" tension; they hand-picked their samples from only the ugliest squawks and sirens. Weingarten treats the samples used on Nation Of Millions as molecules of a greater whole, slivers of music that retain their own secret histories and folk traditions. Can the essence of a hip-hop record be found in the motives, emotions and energies of the artists it samples? Is it likely that something an artist intended 20 years ago would re-emerge anew? This is a compelling and thoroughly researched investigation that tells the story of one of hip-hop's landmark albums.

Public Enemy: Inside the Terrordome

Author : Tim Grierson
Publisher : Omnibus Press
ISBN 13 : 1783233907
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Public Enemy: Inside the Terrordome written by Tim Grierson and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public Enemy are an American hip hop group, formed in New York in 1982, known for their politically charged lyrics and criticism of the American media. This account focuses on the highs and lows of their career, provides an overview of their album releases, and examines what the future holds for them and hip hop as a whole.

Start an Independent Record Label: Music Business Made Simple

Author : J. S. Rudsenske
Publisher : Schirmer Trade Books
ISBN 13 : 0857125265
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book Start an Independent Record Label: Music Business Made Simple written by J. S. Rudsenske and published by Schirmer Trade Books. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensable step-by-step guide to releasing your own records and beginning a working independent label. Since the boom of homemade records and independently-minded musicians in the 1980s, the alternative music industry has grown from strength to strength, driven by a policy that privileges the music itself over the aggressive marketing and branding strategies of the majors. You can retain all control and rights to the music you release, allowing you to showcase and sell the music that you believe should be heard. There has never been a better time to begin a label for yourself, and this comprehensive title shows you exactly how it's done, including: Devising a business plan Finding and choosing talent Creating and manufacturing records themselves All aspects of promotion and marketing Distribution and radio Get your company organised and get those records out there right now with the help and advice of this informative guide.

The Columbia Guide to African American History Since 1939

Author : Robert L. Harris
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231138105
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book The Columbia Guide to African American History Since 1939 written by Robert L. Harris and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multifaceted approach to understanding the central developments in African American history since 1939. It combines a historical overview of key personalities and movements with essays on specific facets of the African American experience, a chronology of events, and a guide to further study. From publisher description.

Good Night and Good Riddance

Author : David Cavanagh
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571302483
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book Good Night and Good Riddance written by David Cavanagh and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goodnight and Good Riddance: How Thirty-Five Years of John Peel Helped to Shape Modern Britain is a social history, a diary of a nation's changing culture, and an in-depth appraisal of one of our greatest broadcasters, a man who can legitimately be called the most influential figure in post-war British popular music. Without the support of John Peel, it's unlikely that innumerable artists - from David Bowie to Dizzee Rascal, Jethro Tull to Joy Division - would have received national radio exposure. But Peel's influence goes much deeper than this. Whether he was championing punk, reggae, jungle or grime, he had a unique relationship with his audience that was part taste-maker, part trusted friend. The book focuses on some 300 shows between 1967 and 2004, giving a thorough overview of Peel's broadcasting career and placing it in its cultural and social contexts. Peel comes alive for the reader, as do the key developments that kept him at the cutting edge - the changes in his tastes; the changes in his thinking. Just like a Peel show, Goodnight and Good Riddance is warm, informative and insightful, and wears its enthusiasm proudly.

Encyclopedia of Hip Hop Literature

Author : Tarshia L. Stanley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 031334390X
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Hip Hop Literature written by Tarshia L. Stanley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hip Hop literature, also known as urban fiction or street lit, is a type of writing evocative of the harsh realities of life in the inner city. Beginning with seminal works by such writers as Donald Goines and Iceberg Slim and culminating in contemporary fiction, autobiography, and poetry, Hip Hop literature is exerting the same kind of influence as Hip Hop music, fashion, and culture. Through more than 180 alphabetically arranged entries, this encyclopedia surveys the world of Hip Hop literature and places it in its social and cultural contexts. Entries cite works for further reading, and a bibliography concludes the volume. Coverage includes authors, genres, and works, as well as on the musical artists, fashion designers, directors, and other figures who make up the context of Hip Hop literature. Entries cite works for further reading, and the encyclopedia concludes with a selected, general bibliography. Students in literature classes will value this guide to an increasingly popular body of literature, while students in social studies classes will welcome its illumination of American cultural diversity.