Melvin Gibbs > Quotes

“One of the most notable”
― Melvin Gibbs, How Black Music Took Over the World

“In my neighborhood”
― Melvin Gibbs, How Black Music Took Over the World

“The performer”
― Melvin Gibbs, How Black Music Took Over the World

“musical instrument in its own right. The standard setup that DJs use where they spin vinyl records today consists of equipment that was either found or invented by him. The evolutionary process that led to Flash’s innovations involved multiple generators of phenotypic novelty. Flash’s immediate progenitor”
― Melvin Gibbs, How Black Music Took Over the World

“From the standpoint of the civil authorities”
― Melvin Gibbs, How Black Music Took Over the World

“as tools to extract and recombine musical structures. Both hip-hop and a large chunk of present-day EDM”
― Melvin Gibbs, How Black Music Took Over the World

“his contemporaries and the next generation of stars”
― Melvin Gibbs, How Black Music Took Over the World

“used to collect and preserve sonic information. For a long time”
― Melvin Gibbs, How Black Music Took Over the World

“In his autobiography”
― Melvin Gibbs, How Black Music Took Over the World

“Those mixtapes were rudimentary. Still”
― Melvin Gibbs, How Black Music Took Over the World

“the concept of science. That “systematically organized body of knowledge” that was the soil hip-hop grew out of was capable of fueling four different modes of creative expression. A full scholarly analysis of that corpus would require the input of experts in”
― Melvin Gibbs, How Black Music Took Over the World

“constraints. In the late 1970s and early to mid-1980s”
― Melvin Gibbs, How Black Music Took Over the World

“Nation”
― Melvin Gibbs, How Black Music Took Over the World