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- Title
Paul's Boutique and Fear of a Black Planet: Digital Sampling and Musical Style in Hip Hop.
- Authors
SEWELL, AMANDA
- Abstract
The Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique (1989) and Public Enemy's Fear of a Black Planet (1990) often draw comparisons because of their profuse and eclectic use of digital sampling. These two hip hop albums, however, use sampling in markedly different ways, a fact that is obscured because no well-developed language exists to differentiate how and why their sampling styles differ. To account for these differences, this article proposes a typology for sample-based hip hop, a systematic terminological and conceptual approach to this repertory. Using these two classic albums by the Beastie Boys and Public Enemy as case studies, this typology offers a way to describe and distinguish in concrete terms the richly varied musical styles that make up sample-based hip hop.
- Subjects
RAP music; SAMPLING (Sound); MUSICAL style; BEASTIE Boys; PAUL'S Boutique (Music); PUBLIC Enemy (Performer); FEAR of a Black Planet (Music)
- Publication
Journal of the Society for American Music, 2014, Vol 8, Issue 1, p28
- ISSN
1752-1963
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S175219631300059X