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...During the mid-1970's," Chang writes, "most of the youthful energy that became known as hip-hop could be contained in a tiny seven-mile circle." That circle was the Bronx, an economically ravaged borough of New York City that was home to such nascent cultural heroes as DJ Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash, who were busily rewiring turntables and re-engineering the powder-keg racial politics of their home turf and in the process creating the future of American popular culture. Obsessively researched, beautifully written, Chang's book is the funky, bootleg, B-side remix...
...course readers don't want to become editors. What they want, what I want, is for what I'm reading to have already undergone the sort of editing that allows reading to be an intimate, thoroughly immersive, deeply pleasurable activity. Who is going to DJ "Freakonomics," the opening chapter of "The Mill on the Floss," and one of Mr. Updike's golf poems into some grisly new work? The only people who will do something like that are the same people who stand most to benefit from bookscanning: writers! Book scanning...
...it’s just hilarious.” Such strange yet effective mixtures are employed all over the play. The score—which, according to Mitnick, “defies musical norms”—includes toe-tappers, sweeping melodies, and raps, with accompaniment from DJ Cop Killer. “I wanted to see if I could write a score without the notes A or E,” Mitnick says. “Unfortunately,” Katz adds, “DJ Cop Killer only used those notes...
...towards synthesized beats was immediate,. Some artists managed to use parts of other musician’s work without running afoul with the law. They generally fall into three categories: anarchic, crazy, and rich. The recent wave of mash-up artists (which broke into the mainstream with DJ Danger Mouse’s Jay-Z/Beatles hybrid “The Grey Album”) have brought a new vitality to sampling, but most of their work is produced and circulated below the radar of commercial music. An example of the second class, the wacky Australians in the Avalanches laboriously...
Adams let down their dining hall restrictions for once and let anyone in to GET IT. Despite unconventional advertising (read: posters that made little sense), Kuumba’s dance was fairly standard dining hall dance fare with DJ Shiftee presiding...