{"product_id":"j-dillas-donuts-9781623561833","title":"J Dilla's Donuts","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom a Los Angeles hospital bed, equipped with little more than a laptop and a stack of records, James J Dilla Yancey crafted a set of tracks that would forever change the way beatmakers viewed their artform. The songs on \u003ci\u003eDonuts \u003c\/i\u003eare not hip hop music as hip hop music is typically defined; they careen and crash into each other, in one moment noisy and abrasive, gorgeous and heartbreaking the next. The samples and melodies tell the story of a man coming to terms with his declining health, a final love letter to the family and friends he was leaving behind. As a prolific producer with a voracious appetite for the history and mechanics of the music he loved, J Dilla knew the records that went into constructing \u003ci\u003eDonuts \u003c\/i\u003einside and out. He could have taken them all and made a much different, more accessible album. If the widely accepted view is that his final work is a record about dying, the question becomes why did he make this record about dying? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing from philosophy, critical theory and musicology, as well as Dilla's own musical catalogue, Jordan Ferguson shows that the contradictory, irascible and confrontational music found on \u003ci\u003eDonuts \u003c\/i\u003eis as much a result of an artist's declining health as it is an example of what scholars call late style, placing the album in a musical tradition that stretches back centuries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/24\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781623561833\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.40h x 4.70w x 0.40d","brand":"Jordan Ferguson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36662742089884,"sku":"9781623561833","price":12.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_5ffbcdb3-20e3-4ccd-9332-77fa2de7ac39.jpg?v=1603902592","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/j-dillas-donuts-9781623561833","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}