Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove
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| Rating | : | 4.86 (773 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1455501352 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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He is one of our most ubiquitous cultural tastemakers, and in this, his first book, he reveals his own formative experiences--from growing up in 1970s West Philly as the son of a 1950s doo-wop singer, to finding his own way through the music world and ultimately co-founding and rising up with the Roots, a.k.a., the last hip hop band on Earth. Mo' Meta Blues also has some (many) random (or not) musings about the state of hip hop, the state of music criticism, the state of statements, as well as a plethora of run-ins with celebrities, idols, and fellow artists, from Stevie Wonder to KISS to D'Angelo to Jay-Z to Dav
Mo' Meta Blues is a magical kaleidoscope about a high concept, low maintenance genius named Ahmir. Cornel West"I truly love this book. It's a dialogue about the nature of memory and the idea of a postmodern black man saddled with some postmodern blues. I am forever a fan of Questlove's fanaticism."--Fred Armisen"A busy thicket of musical geekery likable funny MO' META BLUES has an open-mike, improv-night spirit The end pages on my copy are crammed with song titles; they resemble the back of a popular girl's senior yearbook." --Dwight Garner, New York Times"Smart, funny, insightful The joy of this book is getting to live inside Questlove's jam-packed, restless brain for a while Four stars." --Rolling Stone"MO' META BLUES isn't just a memoir. Fanatics and newcomers to the
Questlove has over 2.4 million followers on Twitter and has been known to DJ damn near every night of his life.Ben Greenman is an editor at the New Yorker and the author of several acclaimed books of fiction, including Superbad, Please Step Back, and What He's Poised to Do. He lives in Brooklyn and has never been known to DJ, ever.. In 2009, The Roots became the house band on Late Night with Jimmy F
Kala Ellis said Great Read. I love this book. It's like a short history of hip hop, The Roots, Questlove, and more. He brings up so many good points. Music is a language. It's always communicating something. This book gives an honest and clear look at where hip hop came from, where it might be going, the dilemmas and joys of music-making and movement-making, and all the important questions at hand. I am in love with the perspective and appreciate for music shown by Questlove. I am a music teacher, and as such, his use of albums like textbooks is perfection to. The Prissy Magnolia said Rebirth at St. Albans. "Music has the power to stop time but music also keeps time."Mo' Meta Blues was a delightful musical journey. Sure Thompson shared the details of his life but it was more like the soundtrack of his life.I appreciated the fact that this book was not structured like a chronological biography. There were memos from the publisher, footnotes from The Roots comanager, and extended playlists spread throughout the text."When you live your life through records, the records are a record of your life."There was not a time when music was not a. What's Not to Love? Andito Toquito I've been a fan of The Roots since the mid-nineties. Wwhat initially attracted me to them was the interplay between the live band behind the rapping, thus merging two forms of music that I had love since I was a little kid but up till then had seen as mutually exclusive, at least in what would truly be categorized as hip hop (vs. rock rap like 311 or Rage Against The Machine). Anyway, I already digress.When I found out that Questlove had written a book, I can honestly say I had mixed feelings, first because on a number of music-rel