J Dilla's Donuts (33 1/3)

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J Dilla's Donuts (33 1/3)

From a Los Angeles hospital bed, equipped with little more than a laptop and a stack of records, James â€œJ Dillaâ€ Yancey crafted a set of tracks that would forever change the way beatmakers viewed their artform. The songs on Donuts are not hip hop music as â€œhip hop musicâ€ is typically defined; they careen and crash into each other, in one moment noisy and abrasive, gorgeous and heartbreaking the next. The samples and melodies tell the story of a man coming to terms with his declining health, a final love letter to the family and friends he was leaving behind. As a prolific producer with a voracious appetite for the history and mechanics of the music he loved, J Dilla knew the records that went into constructing Donuts inside and out. He could have taken them all and made a much different, more accessible album. If the widely accepted view is that his final work is a record about dying, the question becomes why did he make this record about dying?

Drawing from philosophy, critical theory and musicology, as well as Dillaâ€™s own musical catalogue, Jordan Ferguson shows that the contradictory, irascible and confrontational music found on Donuts is as much a result of an artistâ€™s declining health as it is an example of what scholars call â€œlate style,â€ placing the album in a musical tradition that stretches back centuries.

Country	USA
Author	Jordan Ferguson
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	1
EISBN	9781623567194
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Bloomsbury Academic
Manufacturer	Bloomsbury Academic
NumberOfPages	147
PublicationDate	2014-04-24
Publisher	Bloomsbury Academic
ReleaseDate	2014-04-24
Studio	Bloomsbury Academic

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