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Tag: Academia

Sampling

Ethical issues and dilemmas of ‘loop digging’

September 8, 2020September 8, 2020 by Luke Alex Davis
Someone with a MPC on their desk

What are the ethical implications of sampling? A PhD student has written a paper on it from the perspective of ‘loop digging’.

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Music

Black music theorist Philip Ewell calls out racism in music theory

August 15, 2020November 18, 2020 by Luke Alex Davis
philip ewell

Philip Ewell spoke out against racism in a 2019 paper and found himself on the other end of it when White music theorists responded in a closed publication.

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Sampling

How Music Sampling is Different from Stealing

July 26, 2020August 15, 2020 by Luke Alex Davis
You wouldn't steal a sample

Sampling is a creative tool for music composition. But is it really theft? Dr. E. Michael Harrington clarified things in a video for Berklee Online.

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Jazz

The Best Analysis of the Worst Jazz Solo of All Time

May 22, 2020August 15, 2020 by Luke Alex Davis

Is ‘the worst jazz solo of all time’ really the worst jazz solo of all time? Adam Neely’s brilliant critique might change your mind.

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Sampling

Music sampling used to study cultural conformity bias

May 9, 2020August 23, 2020 by Luke Alex Davis
People following each other off a cliff as a representation of conformity bias.

A psychologist at City University of New York used samples on commercial releases to study cultural conformity bias in groups of people.

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Hip Hop

READ: Academic Papers On Sampling By Amanda Sewell

August 23, 2015August 15, 2020 by Luke Alex Davis
(th Wonder at Harvard - one of many hip hop forays into academic circles

Thanks to musicologist Amanda Sewell, we have some academic papers on the subject of sampling. Sampling is synonymous with interactive technology. The pressing of pads on an MPC or Maschine, the splicing of audio on a DAW or even the manual pausing on cassette. But we don’t really see many books or papers on the …

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