Thomas Wuil Joo. A Contrarian View of Copyright: Hip-Hop, Sampling, and Semiotic Democracy. 44 CONN. L. REV. — (2012) As both a fan and a producer of sample-based music, I’m naturally sympathetic to Lawrence Lessig and the free-culture movement, a group of legal scholars advocating reforms to copyright law that would make it easier to [...]
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Also tagged beastie boys, biz markie, copyright, de la soul, DJ Kool Herc, george clinton, girl talk, linkedin, nyu, public enemy, Sampling
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Several US presidents and other prominent politicians have also been musicians. Here are some highlights. Harry Truman played classical piano.
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Also tagged alan greenspan, america, bill clinton, classical, condoleeza rice, harry truman, jazz, john ashcroft, mike huckabee, Music, presidents, richard nixon, rock
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You don’t go to high school biology class to learn particular facts; you go to understand the general framework of evolutionary theory. Rather than contradicting any single fact, Intelligent Design undermines the entire intellectual basis of biology.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Oh my, yes. From Rick Santorum’s Wikipedia entry: A controversy arose following Santorum’s statements about homosexuality in an interview with the Associated Press that was published on April 20, 2003. In response to a question about how to prevent sexual abuse of children by priests, Santorum said the priests were engaged in “a basic homosexual relationship”, [...]
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
My quest to track down the origin of the most persistent recurring hip-hop memes brings me to this chant: The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire We don’t need no water, let the motherf***er burn The chant made its first appearance in the hip-hop canon in “The Roof Is On Fire” by Rock [...]
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Also tagged 50 cent, bizzy bone, bloodhound gang, digging the crates, eighties, funk, hip-hop, mandrill, mc serch, memes, missy elliot, p-funk, rock master scott, Sampling, talking heads
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Tuesday, February 1, 2011
A little while back I went to a screening and discussion at NYU of Blacking Up: Hip-Hop’s Remix of Race and Identity, a documentary about the wigger phenomenon by Robert Clift. I’m a very white person who has been heavily involved with “black” music over the years, like for example rapping an Ice Cube song [...]
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Also tagged al jolson, america, authenticity, elvis presley, eminem, harry allen, hip-hop, hipster, james baldwin, paul mooney, race, snl, vanilla ice, wiggers
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Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Meet the most fascinating and problematic pop star of the moment, Antoine Dodson. If you’re a follower of internet memes, you know the story by now. If not: Antoine, his sister Kelly and her daughter were asleep in their apartment in the Lincoln Park housing project in Huntsville, Alabama. An intruder broke in and sexually [...]
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Also tagged america, antoine dodson, autotune, class, gregory brothers, memes, pop, race, remixes, tv, youtube
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See a followup post on the Gregorys’ breakout hit, the “Bed Intruder Song.” The Gregory Brothers (including a sister-in-law) are musicians here in Brooklyn who have a series of videos called Auto-tune The News. Here are a selection of their better episodes as of this writing.
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Also tagged anxiety, audio editing, autotune, comedy, computers, Evolution, hip-hop, joe biden, katie couric, martin luther king jr, mashups, Music, Music Theory, news, pop, rnb, steven mithen, tv, youtube
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I’ve been making sample maps, diagrams showing what songs include samples of what other songs. I’m a big sample geek. I like knowing where my music comes from the same way I like knowing where my food comes from. This map shows many, probably not nearly all, of the songs that sample Michael Jackson’s solo [...]
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Also tagged anthro, blogs, copyright, digg, digging the crates, flickr, hip-hop, Internet, jackson 5, memes, michael jackson, Music, pop, race, remixes, sample maps, Sampling, Social Media, soul makossa, twitter
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