Sampling the 1970s in hip-hop

Bibliographic Data

ID4843722
AuthorsJoanna Demers (corresponding author)
Year2003
Volume22
Issue1
Pages41-56
Publication date2003-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePopular Music (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0261-1430 • E-ISSN: 1474-0095
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0261143003003039
OpenAlexW2103378386
LanguageEN
Citations received21
References cited10

Musical borrowings, or samples, have long been a means of creating lineage between hip-hop and older genres of African-American music such as funk, soul, and rhythm and blues. DJs who sample from this so-called 'Old School' attempt to link hip-hop to older, venerable traditions of black popular music. This article investigates the importance of 1970s pop and culture to hip-hop music. This era is depicted as a time in which African-American identity coalesced, and a new political consciousness was born. The primary source for images of the 1970s was and continues to be blaxploitation film, a genre of low-budget, black-oriented crime and suspense cinema. This article will detail how blaxploitation distilled certain societal concerns of the 1970s, and how in turn hip-hop feeds off blaxploitation both dramatically and musically, reusing its story lines and sampling its soundtracks

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Blues · Consciousness · Funk · Literature · Lyrics · Musical · Political science · Politics · Popular music · Punk · Rhythm · Visual arts · History · Law · Music History and Culture · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society · Theater, Performance, and Music History

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