Throughout Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm, Charnas uses images and musicology to explain this subtle sonic shift that forever altered modern music. And fortunately for us, Dan Charnas is here to talk us through the musical revolution that took place in the 1990s: The creation of a new understanding of musical time, give us by Detroit’s legendary MC J Dilla. This older-is-better thinking may be echoed in popular culture, but ultimately its untrue. Genres such as hip-hop have been created, others such as funk’s popularity have ebbed and flowed, but this has taken place within the musical framework created over half a century ago, goes the logic. T he common view of music history is revolutionary disruption throughout the 1950s and 60s, followed by a slow but continuous evolution ever since. J Dilla’s influence is in every song we hear today, and yet his one-man 1990s revolution long went unappreciated: Dan Charnas aims to change that in his new book, ‘Dilla Time’.
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