Dan Charnas Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla
MyVinyl presents Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm - an equal-parts biography, musicology, and cultural history that chronicles the life and enduring legacy of J Dilla, the musical genius who transformed the sound of popular music for the twenty-first century.
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Catalog details about Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla
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FormatPaperback, 12.9 x 2.9 x 19.7 cm, 480 pages
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Orig. Release2023
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ConditionНово, фабрична опаковка
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PublisherSwift Press
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LanguageEnglish
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EAN139781800751767
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ReferenceMV-2702-1
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"This book is a must for everyone interested in illuminating the idea of unexplainable genius" - QUESTLOVE
He wasn’t known to mainstream audiences, and when he died at just thirty-two, he had never scored a pop hit. Yet after his death, J Dilla ascended from cult favorite to near-mythic status. Today, J Dilla is revered as one of the most important musical figures of the past hundred years, a producer whose influence reaches far beyond hip-hop. At the heart of this devotion lies innovation: as the creative force behind some of the most influential rap and R&B artists of his era, J Dilla forged an entirely new sense of musical time. His approach to rhythm was as revolutionary as the breakthroughs of Louis Armstrong or James Brown. With J Dilla and his drum machine, the very way musicians play, feel, and understand rhythm was reinvented.
In Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, Dan Charnas tells the story of James DeWitt Yancey—J Dilla—from his prodigious childhood in Detroit to his rise as one of the most sought-after hip-hop producers in the world, and finally to the rare blood disease that led to his untimely death. Charnas also follows the artists, friends, and devotees who kept J Dilla’s music, methods, and ideas alive long after he was gone. Along the way, the book rewinds the history of American rhythm itself, tracing a line from Motown soul through funk, disco, techno, and beyond. In the world of J Dilla, music becomes the story of what happens when human feel and machine precision merge into something entirely new.
This is the story of J Dilla as a complex man and visionary artist; of his machines, his family, his collaborators, and his community; and of the legacy J Dilla left behind. Built on nearly two hundred original interviews and enriched with visual guides that teach readers to feel and even “see” the swing of J Dilla’s beats, Dilla Time stands as a book as singular, influential, and timeless as the music of J Dilla himself.
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