Although music sampling—the reuse of previous music in a new song or piece—is a rich, centuries-old tradition, we seldom hear about its successes. On one hand, the mass media seems to have drawn a ...
Joanna Demers, assistant professor of music history and literature, University of Southern California Is the creative appropriation of previously recorded music theft? Or is that act, better known as ...
Ambient music can feel left-field and unfamiliar. It often abandons the tropes people use to define music in the first place—beats, hooks, vocals, or even a time signature (though to make it more ...
*Smokey Robinson shared his views on music sampling in a new interview with the R&B Money podcast, revealing that he embraces it and welcomes artists using his work. The music icon expressed his ...
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's Constitutional Court handed a defeat to electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk on Tuesday by ruling that a hip-hop artist can sample a two-second beat from a band's tracks ...
“The first time people started sampling was... who? It was rappers in the '80s and '90s. They were sampling records because they didn't have access to big studios" When you purchase through links on ...
A jury concluded that Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke must pay over $7 million to Marvin Gaye's heirs for copying his music. Audie Cornish asks what this mean for music in the age of sampling. Two ...
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