The World Is Yours

This is another view of the contemporary music world that I've not experienced before. It involves "sampling." Pardon me for being a middle class white guy whose tastes aren't exactly urban black (though my tastes are very broad). What's wonderful about this series is that it doesn't insult our intelligence. It looks into what the music is. Sampling, as I found out here has to do with taking previously recorded music and manipulating it with technology to create something new. The series takes us to the roots of particularly inner city African American music and shows how all this transpired. They mention that this has been going on forever. When a group has a beat, particularly if it is appealing to dancers, and their vocal rhythms are unique, they are set up to be "sampled." Some artists talked about going to concerts and saying that the underlying track (performed by a DJ) was actually their song. I was thinking, there must by some dicey things going on with plagiarism.