In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument, or a sound recording in a different song or piece. This process, while relatively new in terms of technology, stems from the long practice of musical appropriation. First, this paper will look at musical appropriation and then explore sampling specifically.
Musical Appropriation The act of creating art is rarely, if ever, a truly original action. The literary scholar Harold Bloom coined the phrase anxiety of influence, which describes the belief that there is no such thing as an original poem: “new poems originate mainly from old poems; that the primary struggle of the young poet is against the old masters.” The same is true
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No where is this clearer than in the British Invasion, pioneered by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, The Who, and the Animals. These bands co-opted African-American rock and blues heavily. Howling Wolf, Muddy Waters, Little Richard and Chuck Berry were all obvious influences to bands in and around the British Invasion. The Second Wave of the British Invasion, which included the bands Led Zeppelin and Cream, is heavily beholden to American bluesmen, as exemplified by Led Zeppelin’s cover of Robert Johnson’s “Traveling Riverside Blues.” While this is a cover and not a sample, it supports the notion that music is a creative medium that has always and will always rely on appropriation. In light of this, copyright law misrepresents the creation of music—considering it a purely original act rather than a progression in a cultural …show more content…
The Futurists sought to regulate the noises of everyday life: “the rumble of thunder, the roar of a waterfall, the...white breathing of a nocturnal city, the coming and going of pistons,” into an “Art of Noise.” The Futurists’ goal was furthered by the French movement musique concrete, which was fathered by composer Pierre Schaeffer. Schaeffer would create “abstract sound mosaics divorced from conventional musical theory,” using “found fragments of sound -- both musical and environmental in origin -- he assembled his first tape-machine pieces, collages of noise manipulated through changes in pitch, duration, and amplitude . . .
The new sound that internationalized rock and roll crossed an ocean from Britain to the United States and changed the course of musical history. The highlighted moment of history in which the British Invasion was initiated was during the arrival of The Beatles and their appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show for three consecutive Sundays. Neither the arrival nor impact of British rock on the musical development of post-1950s...
The British Invasion of 1964 brought America's music - reinvented and revitalized - home, a new generation of rock fans was born. Rock now entered what is now known as its Classic Era.
Nothing is original these days, we live in a postmodern society that is continuously reusing, revising or reproducing existing ideas, thoughts concepts and images. Originality implies a lack of outside influence but we are humans and as such we cannot avoid interacting with each other and we cannot avoid the visual and auditory stimuli that we encounter in our daily lives. With that in mind the notion of originality becomes a paradox in itself. All claims of innovation and individuality during the design process are misguided because artists are always consciously or unconsciously deconstructing and reconstructing existing elements into new configurations.
This act of creativity involves effort, toil, inspiration, failure, and is accompanied by the scorn and criticism of others who do not understand, as Arthur Koestler puts, the bisociative connection the artist makes in his inspirati...
Steven Connor delves into the mixing and creating of sound by computerisation, as well as the habits of sound; it’s immersion, pathos and objectivity.
1. What you are studying (which three works and the topic of your paper) Topic: I’m going to be writing my paper on Cultural Appropriation. I’m going to focus on cultural appropriation in music and hip hop. Then I’m going to use cultural appropriation in hair as a way of questioning whether cultural appropriation is actually cultural appreciation.
Perhaps one of the greatest advancements in music that we use on a daily basis, the MP3 file, could also be one of our worst findings! The main idea of the documentary, The Distortion Of Sound, is that artists music is being distorted through modern technology; therefore sucking the originality and feeling out of their music when they put everything they have into their music.
Chart-topping artists have long been able to capture America with music videos that feature catchy lyrics, buoyant beats, and a vivacity of visual elements. The appeal of these videos lies in the glorification of celebrity lives, playing on the desire for pleasure amongst viewers. In the quest to address this desire, a pattern of White artists adopting clothing, hairstyles, and language that are attributed to Black culture has manifested. The appropriation that is present in these videos make them a source of capitalism in which a dominant race or class of people are able to simplify cultural rudiments of another for the sake of commercial appeal. These elements are
“Music is thought to link all of the emotional, spiritual and physical elements of the universe”. (Cerebromente) If this is so, how does hip hop and rap music affect the younger generation? We know that the younger generations, teens to young adults, are considered very impressionable. Therefore the music they listen to have a huge influence on their life. Today’s hip hop and rap music have three main concepts: marijuana, violence, and sex. These concepts are creating negative influences on the minds of younger generations and are misguiding them. Majority of the hottest follow these concepts. Obviously this is what sells; therefor, corruption of a mind doesn’t matter. Unfortunately, rappers have become the role models of the younger generation.
Howard Gardner has studied many creative masters within the context of his theory of the three core elements of creativity. These include the relation between the child and the adult creator, the relation between the creator and others, and the relation between the creator and his or her work. Karen Horney’s childhood and adult life have been reflected in much of her work. She was born in 1885, the end of the Victorian era. Horney’s father was a “God-fearing fundamentalist who strongly believed that women were inferior to men and were the source of all evil in the world” (Hergenhahn & Olson...
Music and the relationships of music have changed drastically in our society. The course of studies and the evaluations of the applications of the technology of music, the making and the listening of music have changed in the way we listen to music, the styles of music in our society and in the media. The importance of the technology in music today, has, over the past century been charted through the study of musical examples and through viewing how human values are reflected in this century's timely music. There are very many different types of music that are listened to. There are readings, writings, lectures and discussions on all the different types of music.
During the ancient times in Greece, Plato was the first human to document and criticize the existence of art and artists. He mentioned that human art was always in a form of a representation of something else. In one of Plato’s famous works, he demonstrates the idea of art is like an “imitation of nature” (Blocker 3). In other words, the purpose of art was to represent nature and nothing else. Art was not created for the sake of its own self nor was it created to appreciate its own beauty by any means. Instead, art, usually in forms of writings, paintings, or sculptures, was created to only to represent nature, Gods, emperors, families, or other important individuals. Furthermore, Plato had a very critical view towards the existence art in our society because art makes us more emotional, and our emotions lead to many errors about life. He believed it is our rational thinking, not our emotions or senses, which helps us und...
artist: “The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question” (Joyce 185). ‘What the beautiful is’ does not refer to what objects are considered be beautiful, but to the elements that are involved in calling s...
Does originality/individuality exist? How original is that book you just read or that song you listen to all day? Is it really that original that no one else in the world has done something similar than that? It’s likely that that artist or author probably got inspiration from someone else’s art and made changes and made it their own, it’s never one’s own individual idea. That is known as intertextuality. Intertextualities is taking ideas from someone else and incorporating it into your own as well as creating references any kind of media text through another. In Porter’s reading, he described it as, “The principle that all writing and speech arise from a single network.” This sort of thing is seen quite a lot in the music industry community with artists, specifically in music videos. Although intertextuality is basically copying other people’s work without giving credit, it’s a great way to help other people understand the topic through a different perspective.
As literary critics, Plato and Aristotle disagree profoundly about the value of art in human society. Plato attempts to strip artists of the power and prominence they enjoy in his society, while Aristotle tries to develop a method of inquiry to determine the merits of an individual work of art. It is interesting to note that these two disparate notions of art are based upon the same fundamental assumption: that art is a form of mimesis, imitation. Both philosophers are concerned with the artist's ability to have significant impact on others. It is the imitative function of art which promotes disdain in Plato and curiosity in Aristotle. Examining the reality that art professes to imitate, the process of imitation, and the inherent strengths and weaknesses of imitation as a form of artistic expression may lead to understanding how these conflicting views of art could develop from a seemingly similar premise.