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Doctoral Colloquium:听Jeremy Tatar, PhD candidate in Music Theory, 9I制作厂免费

Title:听Hip-Hop Sampling as Analytic Act

Abstract: Sampling is, by now, a ubiquitous feature of our contemporary musical landscape. Of all the songs to chart on the听Billboard Hot 100听throughout 2022, for example, nearly one in five sampled other music in some way. Drawing on concepts established in the field of performance analysis, this paper explores the potential for sample-based beats in hip hop to function as a form of musical analysis. I argue that, just as with other analytic acts, sample-based beats are a) products of skilled, close listening informed by expert knowledge; and b) commentaries with the potential to shape how a body of music is heard and interpreted. In many respects, producers face methodological, aesthetic, expressive questions not unlike those encountered by performers, who, as Edward T. Cone (1968, 34) wrote, must always make 鈥渁 choice: which of the relationships implicit in this piece are to be emphasized, to be made explicit?鈥�

Focusing particularly on issues of meter and phrasing, my analyses consider issues such as: How do producers interpret a metrically ambiguous or multi-valent source? How do they recontextualize material from one meter into another? And, most importantly, how might attending to these choices inform鈥攁nd听transform鈥攐ur interpretations of these source materials? Through close readings of songs by Usher (鈥淟il鈥� Freak,鈥� 2010), Slum Village (鈥淩aise it Up,鈥� 2000), and Nas (鈥淚 Can,鈥� 2002), I demonstrate how sampling creates a living archive that documents the listening practices of an expert musical community.

Bio: Jeremy Tatar is a PhD candidate in Music Theory at 9I制作厂免费, where he is supervised by Jon Wild and Nicole Biamonte. Originally from Sydney, Australia, Jeremy鈥檚 current research focuses on meter, form, and phrase in sample-based hip hop. His work has been published in听Music Theory Online听and the听Journal of Music Theory.