Sampling politics : music and the geocultural
- Title
- Sampling politics : music and the geocultural / M.I. Franklin.
- Published by
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xii, 345 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm
- Summary
- "This book is an exploration of the geocultural politics of music sampling. Each chapter explores one case study - a track, or larger work - from the inside out by starting with the samples that are at the heart of the work. The objective is to unpack how sampled and sampling material work together in light of shifts in the political, economic, and sociocultural contexts of their making, distribution, and reception since. Considering sampling as a material of music, not simply a digital technique or restricted to one sort of music making addresses an under-explored dimension in studies of the relationship between music (any sort) and politics of the day (usually progressive, social movements). This is a tendency to concentrate on the lyrics as where all the political meaning lies. But this overlooks how sampling, or borrowing the music made by others, even one's own, can also be a political act even when this is not the intention Based on extensive archival research, close listening and musical analysis, interviews with artists or their estates, each study provides ways to listen, hear (again), and so learn more about how each piece works, as sampled and sampling work, on its own musico-cultural terms. Some errors in the public record, misperceptions about some of the works and artists who feature are corrected in light of debates over the creative, legal, and cultural legacy of music sampling as either 'borrowing', 'appropriation', or even 'theft'. ; deep"--
- Subject
- Contents
- Introduction -- The World Around Us : Against Musical Common Sense -- The Empire Samples Back : Raga, Dub, and Fortress Europe -- Loss of Innocence : Found Sounds before and after 9/11 -- Re-Imagining Westphalia : Electroacoustic Reminders -- 'His Master's Voice' and (R)evolutionary Signifyin' -- Conclusion.
- Call number
- JME 22-29
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [309]-334) and index.
- Author
- Franklin, Marianne, 1959- author.
- Title
- Sampling politics : music and the geocultural / M.I. Franklin.
- Publisher
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Type of content
- text
- Type of medium
- unmediated
- Type of carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [309]-334) and index.
- Other form:
- Online version: Franklin, Marianne, 1959- Sampling politics New York : Oxford University Press, 2021. 9780190855505 (DLC) 2020046591
- LCCN
- 2020046590
- ISBN
- 9780190855475 hardcover
- 0190855479 hardcover
- 9780190855482 paperback
- 0190855487 paperback
- Research call number
- JME 22-29