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Peter Shapiro (journalist)

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Another two important reference sources that provide biographical information are the All Music Guide to Hip Hop, edited by Vladamir Bog danov, and Peter Shapiro's The Rough Guide to Hip-Hop. Although the books are similarly arranged, the biographical sketches in The Rough Guide to Hip-Hop are a bit
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Shapiro's enclyclopedic guide encompasses jungle, hardcore techno, big beat, and trip-hop. Like Bidder's book, Shapiro's offers selective historical insight (A Guy Called Gerald and Alex Reece, for instance), as well as (almost) up-to-the-minute snippets on today's artists like Air, DJ Rap, and
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In a pair of rich essays on the robotics of rhythm, Peter Shapiro and Biba Kopf chart a searching line from New Orleans marching bands to James Brown to Kraftwerk, mixing the militaristic traces of brass bands with the post-War hauntings of Germany's
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However, if you're more interested in something that covers today's key players, then Peter Shapiro's handy, pocket-sized The Rough Guide to Hip-Hop (Rough Guide/Penguin, roughguides.com) fits the bill.
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This pocket-sized encyclopedia includes 150-plus entries, predominantly biographical. Black-and-white portraits are generous and well selected, and the choice of entries is comprehensive and commendable
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The Oxford Handbook of Computer Music - Page 352 0195331613 R. T. Dean - 2009 - Shapiro, P., ed. 2000. Modulations. A History of Electronic Music: Throbbing Words on Sound. New York: Caipirinha
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of France, to how the repetitive beats "opened the doors to techno, house and hip-hop". It received positive critical reception, which included a review in
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Disco is dead? Not in Turn the Beat Around, Peter Shapiro's exhilarating and informative rehabilitation of the dancing dinosaur, says Molloy Woodcraft
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Peter Shapiro and Dave Haslam take Gary Lachman back to the 70s with Turn the Beat Around and This Is Not Abba
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stated he "put down the book knowing a great deal more about disco than I ever wanted to".
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After a decade in music journalism Shapiro moved into law. As of 2024 he specializes in
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that highlighted how the book rehabilitates the "dinosaur" that is
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Shapiro, Peter; Authors, Individual (2002). Young, Rob (ed.).
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reference works focused on music genres. These include
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Vol. 111, no. 44. 565:Lachman, Gary (11 June 2005). 538:Thompson, Ben (31 July 2005). 32:Peter Shapiro (disambiguation) 1: 183:. He has written a number of 283:Shapiro, Peter, ed. (2000). 1101:The Wire (magazine) writers 52:1969 (age 54–55) 1117: 1091:American music journalists 714:Paoletta, Michael (1999). 680:"Peter Shapiro - The Wire" 373:The Rough Guide to Hip-Hop 197:The Rough Guide to Hip-Hop 29: 802:Music Library Association 332:. 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Turn the Beat Around: The Secret History of Disco
Peter Shapiro (disambiguation)
University of Michigan
University of Sussex
Lawyer
music journalist
music journalist
Disco
Hip-hop
Spin
URB
Music Week
Uncut
Vibe
The Wire
The Times
Rough Guide
media law
intellectual property
BakerHostetler
Disco
Swingjugend
Zazous
The Observer
Disco
The Guardian
Rough Guides
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9781858284330
Modulations: A History of Electronic Music

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