Camp Lo's Uptown Saturday Night (33 1/3)
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| Rating | : | 4.33 (923 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1501322729 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the AuthorPatrick Rivers is an ethnomusicologist and an Assistant Professor of Music at the University of New Haven, USA.Will Fulton is an Associate Professor of Music at LaGuardia Community College, CUNY, USA.
The book features new interviews with Camp Lo, producer Ski, Trugoy the Dove from De La Soul, Ish from Digable Planets, and others, and offers musical and cultural analyses that detail the development of the album and its essential contributions to a post-soul aesthetic.. In 1996, they collaborated with producer Ski and a host of other contributors to create Uptown Saturday Night, featuring the seminal single “Luchini (a.k.a. This volume will detail how the album’s fantastic world of “Coolie High” reflected classic films like Cooley High and the Sidney Poitier film from which the album’s title is derived, and promoted vintage slang and fashion. These two emcees from the Bronx, NY entered the American hip hop scene with an insider slang that bewildered listeners as they radiated the look of a bygone era of black culture. Uptown Saturday Night is a tapestry of 1970s black popular culture and 1990s New York City hip hop. Geechi Suede and Sonny Cheeba are Camp Lo. This is It).” While other 1990s rappers referred to 1970s Blaxploitation culture, Camp Lo were self-described “time travelers” who weaved the slang and style of a soulful past into state-of-the-art lyrical flows
Patrick Rivers is an ethnomusicologist and an Assistant Professor of Music at the University of New Haven, USA.Will Fulton is an Associate Professor of Music at LaGuardia Community College, CUNY, USA.