Public Event

Mark Katz
Music, University of North Carolina
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This talk takes as its focus the transformation of the turntable from a playback device to a musical instrument during the early years of hip-hop.  It will examine landmark innovations in turntable technique – including Grandmaster Flash's development of the clock theory method of mixing records and GrandWizzard Theodore's introduction of needle-dropping and scratching – as well as changes in turntable and mixer technology.  In doing so it will offer a framework for understanding the musical and social basis for the turntable's instrumentality and demonstrate how hip-hop went from being a performance practice to a musical genre in its own right.

Additional support: Musicology Division, School of Music

WILL-AM580 FOCUS interview with Mark Katz

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