The Art of Sampling: The Sampling Tradition of Hip HOP/Rap Music and

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 its 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.