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Author Walker, Lance Scott

Title DJ Screw : a life in slow revolution / Lance Scott Walker
Edition First edition
Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (x, 284 pages) : illustrations
Series American Music
American music series (Austin, Tex.)
Contents Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Screw York City -- 2. Robert Earl -- Houston, Texas -- "Bunnytown" -- Harris Street -- Radio -- The Glove -- The Hands -- Z Force Crew -- The Next Episode -- 3. Smithville to Houston -- Southside -- Night People -- MacGregor Park -- Houston Rap Attack -- The Meadows -- Ghetto Boys! Geto Boys! -- 4. 10201 -- 3-4 Action -- White Insides -- Almeda -- IMG/Nation -- Blast -- Gulfgate -- Screw Tapes -- Telephone Love -- Rebel Rap Family -- Kings -- 5. Broadway -- Triple Threat -- Smoke One / Smoke Two -- Southside Connection -- Michael Price -- 6. The Wood Room
Swangin' and Bangin' -- Herschelwood -- Welcome to the Ghetto -- The Drank Man -- Screw the World -- So Real -- All Screwed Up -- 3 'N the Mornin' -- June 27th -- Ridin' Dirty -- 7. Screwed Up Click -- The Gate -- Floss Mode -- Don't Mess with Texas -- Outlaws -- Ghetto Dreams -- 8. South Park -- The Southside Reunion -- Screwed Up Records & Tapes -- In God We Trust -- So Many Ways -- Screw Dub -- Dead End Representative -- 9. New Territory -- It's Gonna Get Better -- All Work, No Play -- Uncle Earl -- 99 Live -- Strawberries -- The Day Hell Broke Loose -- The Ring -- Platinum -- City of Syrup
Four Corners of the World -- Pitch Control -- Commerce Park -- 2000 Tears -- 10. The Legend -- Codeine -- Southside Still Holding -- Ida Mae -- Boys in a Daze -- The Five-Star General -- Screw's House -- University of Houston -- Screwed Up Headquarters -- The Slab -- Bow Down -- Poppa Screw -- DJ Screw Day -- Floyd -- Screw Luv -- Acknowledgments -- Oral History Guide -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary DJ Screw, a.k.a. Robert Earl Davis Jr., changed rap and hip-hop forever. In the 1990s, in a spare room of his Houston home, he developed a revolutionary mixing technique known as chopped and screwed. Spinning two copies of a record, Screw would "chop" in new rhythms, bring in local rappers to freestyle over the tracks, and slow the recording down on tape. Soon Houstonians were lining up to buy his cassettes--he could sell thousands in a single day. Fans drove around town blasting his music, a sound that came to define the city's burgeoning and innovative rap culture. June 27 has become an unofficial city holiday, inspired by a legendary mix Screw made on that date. Lance Scott Walker has interviewed nearly everyone who knew Screw, from childhood friends to collaborators to aficionados who evangelized Screw's tapes--millions of which made their way around the globe--as well as the New York rap moguls who honored him. Walker brings these voices together with captivating details of Screw's craft and his world. More than the story of one man, DJ Screw is a history of the Houston scene as it came of age, full of vibrant moments and characters. But none can top Screw himself, a pioneer whose mystique has only grown in the two decades since his death
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (ProQuest, viewed on March 21, 2022)
Subject DJ Screw, 1971-2000.
DJ Screw, 1971-2000 -- Homes and haunts
SUBJECT DJ Screw, 1971-2000 fast
Subject African American disc jockeys -- Texas -- Houston -- Biography
Rap musicians -- Texas -- Houston -- Biography
Chopped and screwed (Music) -- History and criticism
MUSIC / General
African American disc jockeys
Chopped and screwed (Music)
Homes
Rap musicians
Texas -- Houston
Genre/Form Biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781477325148
147732514X