Tough Breaks : The Story of Baltimore Club Music
Al Shipley
Bok · Engelsk · 2025 · Selvbiografier
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| Opplysninger | In Tough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club Music, music journalist Al Shipley draws from 18 years’ worth of interviews with dozens of DJs, producers, vocalists, party hosts, promoters, and the founders of the clubs, labels and record stores that shaped the genre. With the untold stories behind labels like Unruly Records and clubs like The Paradox, Shipley digs deep into big personalities, obscure samples, profanely catchy chants, and friendship and feuds that drove a competitive scene to keep the 130BPM beats going for decades. Baltimore icons who died tragically young like Miss Tony and DJ K-Swift are remembered through the eyes of friends and collaborators, and producers like DJ Booman, DJ Class, and Diamond K reveal the inspirations behind some of their classic tracks.. - Review Tough Breaks finally gives the Baltimore club scene the kind of deep-dive chronicle that’s been long overdue. Drawing from his years of interviews with key DJs, promoters, and venue owners, Shipley traces the long arc of B’more’s club music from its early days in North Central nightclubs up through its distinctive — but underacknoweldged — influence on some of today’s biggest pop acts. It’s the kind of cultural history that appeals to both club veterans who came of age in this scene as well as newcomers lured by the beats and breaks that have propelled the city's still vibrant musical underground." - Oliver Wang "Al Shipley's Tough Breaks is a much-overdue account of one of dance music's most underappreciated and dynamic scenes. With forensic attention, Tough Breaks takes you onto the dancefloors where Baltimore Club music exploded & later spread across the world. It's history with a deliriously bangin' beat." - Charles Aaron "Not just a history of an urban breakbeat genre you might be oblivious to unless you spent much of the early 21st Century in the middle Atlantic states (or very possibly even if you have), Tough Breaks is comprehensive journalism about local heroes, local businesses (from retail to radio to nightlife), local neighborhoods, even local dialects — namely, “fronting back vowels… especially noticeable in long O sounds." Al Shipley, who has reported for decades about music in the city that gave birth to Babe Ruth, The Wire and American Catholic catechism, just might make you want to dig through crates for obscure 12-inch singles you never knew existed. And if you’re wondering how 2 Live Crew, DMX, Tupac, Sisqo and Pharrell Williams fit into the story, they're here too — Shipley’s tangents are as eye-opening as his plot’s trajectory."- Chuck Eddy About the Author Al Shipley has covered the Baltimore music scene for over 20 years for publications including Baltimore City Paper, the Baltimore Banner, Baltimore Fishbowl and Urbanite, and the acclaimed MP3 blog Government Names, winning awards from the Baltimore Crown Awards and the Baltimore Sun. He’s written about a wide variety of music and culture for Spin, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, Vulture, Vice, and Complex.
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| ISBN | 9781917516068
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| Hylleplass | 781.648092 SHI
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