Katz on DJ Battles

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Channel: Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press) · 2012 · Education

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Between the spinning and dissing, great innovations in music come out of DJ battles explains Mark Katz, author of Groove Music: The Art and Culture of the Hip-Hop DJ.

Mark Katz is Associate Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Capturing Sound: How Technology has Changed Music and editor of the Journal of the Society for American Music. He is a violinist, a radio DJ, and an aspiring turntablist.

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