{"product_id":"9781441142849","title":"Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back","description":"Christopher R. Weingarten provides a thrilling account of how the Bomb Squad produced such a singular-sounding record: engineering, sampling, scratching, constructing, deconstructing, reconstructing - even occasionally stomping\u003cbr\u003eon vinyl that sounded too clean. Using production techniques that have never been duplicated, the Bomb Squad plundered\u003cbr\u003eand reconfigured their own compositions to make frenetic splatter collages; they played samples by hand together in a\u003cbr\u003eroom like a rock band to create a \"not quite right\" tension; they hand-picked their samples from only the ugliest squawks and sirens.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWeingarten treats the samples used on Nation Of Millions as molecules of a greater whole, slivers of music that retain their own secret histories and folk traditions. Can the essence of a hip-hop record be found in the motives, emotions and energies of the artists it samples? Is it likely that something an artist intended 20 years ago would re-emerge anew? This is a compelling and thoroughly researched investigation that tells the story of one of hip-hop's landmark albums.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128050893040,"sku":"9781441142849","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781441142849_p0.jpg?v=1763793548","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781441142849","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}