Dilla time : the life and afterlife of J Dilla, the hip-hop producer who reinvented rhythm /
J Dilla wasn't known to mainstream audiences. In his lifetime, he never had a pop hit. Since his death he has been revered by jazz musicians and rap icons for a new kind of musical time-feel that he created on a drum machine, which changed the way "traditional" musicians play. Charnas...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
[2022].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | J Dilla wasn't known to mainstream audiences. In his lifetime, he never had a pop hit. Since his death he has been revered by jazz musicians and rap icons for a new kind of musical time-feel that he created on a drum machine, which changed the way "traditional" musicians play. Charnas chronicles the life of James DeWitt Yancey, from a childhood in Detroit, to his rise as a Grammy-nominated hip-hop producer, to the rare blood disease that caused his premature death and follows the people who kept him and his ideas alive. Along the way Charnas rewinds the histories of American rhythms, a story of Black culture in America and of what happens when human and machine times are synthesized into something new. |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 458 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references, discography and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780374139940 0374139946 |