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The Art of Sampling: The Sampling Tradition of Hip Hop/Rap Music and Copyright Law

by Amir Said

Sampling as music practice and copyright question

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Sampling as music practice and copyright question

Amir Said examines sampling across three connected areas: its history, the creative mechanics involved in making sampled music, and its implications for copyright law. The book’s structure moves from historical context to practical instruction and then to legal questions, linking a production method central to hip-hop and rap with broader debates about artistic use and intellectual property. That combination makes it both a study of a musical tradition and a guide to the process and legal issues surrounding sampling.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Hip-hop and rap listeners interested in how sampling developed as a musical practice
  • Music makers seeking instructional material on sampling
  • Readers exploring the intersection of music production and copyright law

Themes

Hip-hop and rap historySampling and creative practiceCopyright lawIntellectual property

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Book overview

The art of sampling -- one of the most innovative music processes to emerge in the late-twentieth century -- stands today as both a celebrated art form and a cultural activity within the hip hop/rap music tradition and beyond. 'The Art of Sampling' (Amir Said, author of 'The BeatTips Manual'), examines this complex and controversial music process, and presents a study that illuminates the history, creative mechanics, and philosophy of sampling, while also exploring the implications that it holds for copyright law.

Divided into three primary parts, including an in-depth History part, a robust Instruction (how-to) part, and a highly comprehensive Copyright Law part, 'The Art of Sampling' is detailed, sharply informative, and engaging. Astute and intensely thought-provoking, it's the definitive book on sampling in the hip hop/rap music tradition and copyright law, and one of the most striking and poignant music studies to come along in years.

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