{"product_id":"j-dillas-donuts-von-jordan-ferguson","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\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9781623561833\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9781623561833","offer_id":57764637114693,"sku":"9781623561833","price":13.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/87c6c2d6-7dda-483a-8591-c42111fc40b0.jpg?v=1777262635","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/j-dillas-donuts-von-jordan-ferguson","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}