The postmodern sensibility that anything can be considered cool in an ironic ‘I know it’s bad, but it’s so bad it’s good way’
Work that is created based (entirely or in part) on older material. This incorporates sampling and will take you from the realms of hip hop culture transporting you finally in today’s modern fragmented musical landscape. You will have to listen to some of the artists to fully appreciate them and their work.
Otis (2011) samples
Try a Little Tenderness by Otis Redding (1966)
Don't Tell a Lie About Me and I Won't Tell the Truth on You by James Brown (1974)
Top Billin' by Audio Two (1987)
The Greatest Love of All by Eddie Murphy (1988)
All I Need by Jay-Z (2001)
Try a Little Tenderness by Otis Redding (1966) Don't Tell a Lie About Me and I Won't Tell the Truth on You by James Brown (1974) Top Billin' by Audio Two (1987) The Greatest Love of All by Eddie Murphy (1988) All I Need by Jay-Z (2001)Let It Out (2010) sampled  Get Out of My Life, Woman by Allen Toussaint (1968) Mr. Big Stuff by Jean Knight (1971) I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby by Barry White (1973) Nothing From Nothing by Billy Preston (1974) Blitzkrieg Bop by Ramones (1976) Mr. Blue Sky by Electric Light Orchestra (1977) Tenderness by General Public (1984) Posse on Broadway by Sir Mix-a-Lot (1988) Waiting Room by Fugazi (1989) Loser by Beck (1993) Flava in Ya Ear (Remix) by Craig Mack and The Notorious B.I.G. feat. Rampage, LL Cool J andBusta Rhymes (1994) Ruby Soho by Rancid (1995) Liquid Swords by GZA feat. RZA (1995) |
Audiences that are both niche and mainstream. E.g.: Radio 1, 1xtra, BBC6, XFM
6Music Playlist:
Kathleen Edwards | Change The Sheets | ||
Field Music | A New Town | ||
Come Save Me | |||
M.I.A. | Bad Girls | ||
The Maccabees | Feel To Follow | ||
Niki And The Dove | DJ, Ease My Mind | ||
The Shins | Simple Song | ||
Sleigh Bells | Comeback Kid | ||
We Are Augustines | Chapel Song | ||
Paul Weller | That Dangerous Age | ||
Jack White | Love Interruption | ||
The ways in which people engage and listen to music e.g.: iPod, DAB, mobile phones etc
The legal issues surrounding sampling. (Led Zeppelin ‘borrowed’ heavily from old bluesmen and it took years for the songwriters to be credited and paid royalties. The same group took a hard-line stance initially to be sampled by hip hop groups.)
The state of the music industry incorporating any recent developments that change how we access/ interact with music e.g.: Spotify, X Factor, iTunes, illegal downloading, free cds with
newspapers etc
newspapers etc
Pick 'n' Mix culture: the past, or distant and exotic cultures, are a) detached from their environment and b) used selectively to anchor the chaotic images of modern European and American life (Elvis Presley's 'It's Now or Never/O Sole Mio'; Gregorian chants in the Top Ten). A modern example would include artists such as Lady Gaga, M.I.A., Madeon and Active Child
Intertextuality: The preference for parody, nostalgia, kitsch and pastiche over realism
(sampling).
The dominance of surface over depth
No strong sense of history or the future. Alienation is abolished by saying, 'Utopia is now' as in raves or music festivals.
A new status for art culture. Art does not represent or reflect reality: it is reality.
Like the characters in a soap opera, pop stars can seem more 'real' than our own friends.
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