http://cultureandcommunication.org/f09/tdm/h-man/imakemadbeats-pt-deux/ Graduate class in (new) Media (networked) Culture and (distributed) Communication @NYU Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:02:50 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://cultureandcommunication.org/f09/tdm/h-man/imakemadbeats-pt-deux/comment-page-1/#comment-482 harlo Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:04:52 +0000 http://cultureandcommunication.org/f09/tdm/?p=3017#comment-482 What I'm about to say is incredibly sentimental, but this travelogue reminds me of what musicoligists and hip-hop activists have been saying all along: black music has always been at the forefront of technology by its appropriation of existing technologies and putting them to innovative new uses. the blog-as-mixtape idea is yet another example. Years ao it was digital sampling techniques, rewind a few decades and hip hop invented turntablism, go back a few more decades to the serendipidous marriage of the electric guitar to bluegrass melody, even jazz broke throught the constraints of formalize melodic structures... What I’m about to say is incredibly sentimental, but this travelogue reminds me of what musicoligists and hip-hop activists have been saying all along: black music has always been at the forefront of technology by its appropriation of existing technologies and putting them to innovative new uses. the blog-as-mixtape idea is yet another example. Years ao it was digital sampling techniques, rewind a few decades and hip hop invented turntablism, go back a few more decades to the serendipidous marriage of the electric guitar to bluegrass melody, even jazz broke throught the constraints of formalize melodic structures…

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