ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to produce a suitable analytical methodology for the study of the composition processes of hip-hop turntable teams. It looks at some existing analytical methodologies for hip-hop and popular music in general, discussing their suitability for an analysis of team turntablism. The chapter focuses on frameworks for the analysis of hip-hop turntable music and the development of a new analytical model. It explores emerging notation and transcription techniques and, the implication and use of such systems, set out a notational system for the analysis of specific turntable team compositions. Whilst offering the analytical parameters such as acoustics and individual performance style, the frameworks still concentrate on aspects that relate mainly to song form, such as lyrics, melody, harmonic progression and song structure, that are not necessarily appropriate to an instrumental or non-vocal style of music such as hip-hop turntablism.
