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Def Jam Recordings : the first 25 years of the last great record label / [essays by Bill Adler and Dan Charnas ; prefaces by Rick Rubin, Russel Simmons, Lyor Cohen and Kevin Liles ; introduction by Kelefa Sanneh].

Title
Def Jam Recordings : the first 25 years of the last great record label / [essays by Bill Adler and Dan Charnas ; prefaces by Rick Rubin, Russel Simmons, Lyor Cohen and Kevin Liles ; introduction by Kelefa Sanneh].
Publication
New York : Rizzoli ; Enfield : Publishers Group UK [distributor], 2011, c2010.

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Additional Authors
  • Adler, Bill, 1951-
  • Charnas, Dan
  • Rubin, Rick
  • Simmons, Russell.
  • Cohen, Lyor.
  • Liles, Kevin.
  • Sanneh, Kelefa
  • Whisler, Leah.
  • Def Jam Recordings.
Description
311 p. : ill. (some col.); 31 cm.
Summary
The illustrated oral history of the greatest hip-hop hit-making machine in history.
Alternative Title
  • Def Jam
  • First 25 years of the last great record label
Subject
  • Def Jam Recordings > History
  • Sound recording industry > United States
  • Sound recording executives and producers > Biography
  • Rap (Music) > History and criticism
Genre/Form
  • Biographies
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History
Note
  • Includes index.
  • "Def Jam Enterprises."
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Prefaces / Rick Rubin, Russell Simmons, Lyor Cohen, Kevin Liles -- Intro : way past ten : Def Jam's great idea / Kelefa Sanneh -- Def Jam 25 : a pre-history. Rick Rubin, totally destroying what was proven ; Russell Simmons : Rush Productions and the roots of rap ; Improving the conditions of the rap industry, 1984-1994 / Bill Adler ; The executive team 1995-2010 / Dan Charnas.
ISBN
  • 9780847833719 (hbk.)
  • 0847833712 (hbk.)
LCCN
^^2011929984
OCLC
  • 751746839
  • SCSB-10129362
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library