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 ...

Sampling has become hugely popular in the music industry, and its ability to inspire inventive tracks has earned it the respect of artists and critics alike. However, the outdated nature of the laws ...

The study of music theory and popular music analysis continues to evolve as scholars integrate traditional analytical frameworks with innovative methodologies. Recent work in the field has broadened ...

"Trap and drill music sampling the old school classics sucks. I have tried to listen to akina Ice Spice and some new Gen Z music with some 90s samples, but I just can't. Lots of bass and auto-tune and ...

Although newer artists and producers continue to breathe new life into the endless possibilities of sampling, there’s been growing criticism of contemporary popular music reaching back to sample the ...

Automatic music transcription and analysis involves the conversion of audio recordings into symbolic representations such as musical scores or MIDI files. This field integrates signal processing, ...

When hip hop came along and started using pieces of songs as the basis for new songs, copyright holders were spooked. Musical reference and quotation are as old as music itself, but the mechanical ...

Music Same Old Song: Hip-Hop Sampling Arguments In 2023 Are Just Like The Old Arguments Is sampling real art, are producers getting lazy, or are these the same arguments as before? A look at the ...

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 ...