J Dilla's Donuts (33 1/3)
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.84 (974 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1623561833 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 152 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-05 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Jordan Ferguson is a freelance culture writer based in Toronto. He can be found online at poetryforgravediggers.
More About the Context, Less About the Album This is not the book I expected. Though, honestly, I don't quite know what I expected.My favorite part about the 33 1/3 series is that each one is so drastically different that it's hard to get a "bead" on how the series will work.This one focuses quite a bi. Dilla's Donuts Book This Book Is Informative Of Dilla's Producing Process and Chronicles How He Got His Demo To Tip.It Is Somewhat Depressing As Well As The Author Contemplates Dilla's Mindstate In His Final Days.Good Reading Over All. Very Well Written.. Amazon Customer said Great book.. Great book. It gave me insight on my favorite producer, and gave me knowledge on what he was going through and how dedicated he was when working on his craft.
It feels pretty meta to be criticizing the work of a critic, and while Ferguson spends what I felt was an unnecessarily long time coming to terms with the role of writing as a critic himself, he writes in a way that ultimately succeeds in expressing the significance of Donuts when contemplating Dilla's life. Donuts, released four days before Dilla's death, was created during the last moments of the artist's life, and thus carries a much more substantial weight in comparison to other Dilla productio
From a Los Angeles hospital bed, equipped with little more than a laptop and a stack of records, James "J Dilla" Yancey crafted a set of tracks that would forever change the way beatmakers viewed their artform. 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. 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 Dilla's own musical catalogue, Jordan Ferguson shows that the contradictory, irascible and confrontational music found on Donuts is as much a r