Mason Youngblood, a psychologist at City University of New York, has found a way to study cultural conformity bias in groups of people by studying music sampling used on commercially sold songs. In ...

While many music creators are eager to draw on elements of music from the past, actually legally sampling tracks is typically a slow and expensive project. In this op-ed, Pär Almqvist discusses an ...

"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 ...

In the summer of 2017, when Daniel Hansford was 17 and on vacation with his family, “Josie” by Steely Dan came on the car stereo. Though he was hearing the song for the first time, Hansford believed ...

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 ...

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 ...

Generative AI is a heated topic in every circle, but possibly not as much as in the music world. More and more, AI-generated artists and songs worm their way onto streaming platforms and Billboard ...

The practice of music sampling, which is the integration of pre-recorded sounds into new musical gestures, experienced a golden, unregulated age in the late 1980s that is almost unimaginable today.

Abstract: Scholars of musical sampling often presuppose a binary understanding of compositional techniques: “live” vs. “virtual.” In this presentation, I propose an alternative framework for ...

Lizzo called out music sampling laws and their racial implications during a Million Dollaz Worth of Game interview, arguing the rules unfairly target Black creativity and the roots of Hip-Hop. The ...

It may seem impossible to combine classical music, one of the oldest genres of music, with Korean pop (K-pop), an internationally trending genre. But it’s probable. The first song to sample classical ...