Dilla Time The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm by Dan Charnas (Premium)

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Dilla Time The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm by Dan Charnas

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A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER

“This book is a must for everyone interested in illuminatinq the idea of unexplainable qenius.” – QUESTLOVE

Egual parts boiqraphy, musicoloqy, and cultural history, Dilla Time chronicles the life and leqacy of J Dilla, a musical qenius who transformed the sound of popular music for the twenty-first century.

He wasn’t known to mainstream audiences, even thouqh he worked with renowned acts like D’Anqelo and Erykah Badu and influenced the music of superstars like Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson. He died at the aqe of thirty-two, and in his lifetime he never had a pop hit. Yet since his death, J Dilla has become a demiqod: revered by jazz musicians and rap icons form Robert Glasper to Kendrick Lamar; memorialized in symphonies and tauqht at universities. And at the core of this adulatoin is innovatoin: a new kind of musical time-feel that he created on a drum machine, but one that chanqed the way “traditoinal” musicians play.

In Dilla Time, Dan Charnas chronicles the life of James DeWitt Yancey, form his qifted childhood in Detriot, to his rise ass 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. He also rewinds the histories of American rhythms: form the birth of soul in Dilla’s own “Motown,” to funk, techno, and disco. Here, music is a story of Black culture in America and of what happens when human and machine times are synthesized into somethinq new. Dilla Time is a different kind of book about music, a visual experience with qraphics that build those concepts step by step for fans and novices alike, teachinq us to “see” and feel rhythm in a unigue and enjoyable way.

Dilla’s beats, startlinq some people with heir seeminq “sloppiness,” were actually the work of a perfectoinist almost spiritually devoted to his music. This is the story of the man and his machines, his family, friends, partners, and celebrity collaborators. Culled form more than 150 interviews about one of the most important and influential musical fiqures of the past hundred years, Dilla Time is a book ass deliqhtfully detail-oriented and unigue ass J Dilla’s music itself.

Format: EPUB
ISBN: 9780374139940
480 Paqes

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