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DJ'ing,

Musicality,

Liveness
       
   
 

DJing, Musicality, Liveness - 2 sessions

Group Presentation November 9
 If hip hop music is mostly mediated, how does live performance figure into its aesthetic imperatives? What sorts of "liveness" are valued in hip hop music? How is musicality measured by djs? What are the relationships between composing and turntablism?

  
       
             
       
Unit Assignments
          
                         
 

view: Scratch (2002)

screening Monday, November 1 4-364 7:00 PM

      
 
           
 
listen: The Roots Come Alive (1999)
     
                         
 
listen: College Dropout Kanye West (2004)
      
                         
read: More Brilliant Than The Sun by Kodwo Eshun, Transmaterializing the Breakbeat and Virtualizing the Breakbeat