Sampling politics : music and the geocultural / M.I. Franklin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Franklin, Marianne, 1959- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Social aspects.

Music.

Music--Political aspects.

Quotation in music.

Physical Description:

xii, 345 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"This book is an exploration of the geocultural politics of music sampling. Each chapter explores one case study - a track, or larger work - from the inside out by starting with the samples that are at the heart of the work. The objective is to unpack how sampled and sampling material work together in light of shifts in the political, economic, and sociocultural contexts of their making, distribution, and reception since. Considering sampling as a material of music, not simply a digital technique or restricted to one sort of music making addresses an under-explored dimension in studies of the relationship between music (any sort) and politics of the day (usually progressive, social movements). This is a tendency to concentrate on the lyrics as where all the political meaning lies. But this overlooks how sampling, or borrowing the music made by others, even one's own, can also be a political act even when this is not the intention Based on extensive archival research, close listening and musical analysis, interviews with artists or their estates, each study provides ways to listen, hear (again), and so learn more about how each piece works, as sampled and sampling work, on its own musico-cultural terms. Some errors in the public record, misperceptions about some of the works and artists who feature are corrected in light of debates over the creative, legal, and cultural legacy of music sampling as either 'borrowing', 'appropriation', or even 'theft'. ; deep"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction

Enter in Reverse

State of the Art

Rationale

Modulation

Studying Audible Domains: the Intangible

Conceptualizing Sampling

Musicking Politics

Musico-Methodological Cartographies

Outline

2. The World around Us: Against Musical Common Sense

Tacet

Intro

Change Up

Change Down

The World around Us

Performing/Listening to 4'33"

"The Rest is Silence"

Sampled Silences

Disruption or Oppression?

Sound and Vision (I): Censoring Sounds after 9/11

Sound and Vision (II): Culture Wars Recap

Back to Beginnings

Outro

Tacet (Reprise)

3. The Empire Samples Back: Raga, Dub, and Fortress Europe

Long Intro: Borders

"Die Welt ist so kaputt"

Political Frequencies

Aims and Objectives

Raga: Theory and Practice

Close Listening (A)

"Fortress Europe"

Amrapali

Close Listening (B)

"Rebel Warrior"

Theorizing South Asian Music

The Artists Reflect

"Not Just about the Lyrics"

Aniruddha Das

"Women Continually Don't Get the Credit They Deserve"

Sonia Mehta

Long Outro: Music Borrowing Futures and Pasts

4. Loss of Innocence: Found Sounds before and after 9/11

Reverb

Organization

Rewind

Replay: Back to Source

How Maqam - Based Music Works

One Day, One Performance

pt. 1 "Hayhat ya abu-z-zuluf "

pt. 2 "I Feel Good"

Content and Context

Private and Public

Cultural Appropriations Revisited

The World of Islam Festival

Classical/Popular Music in the "World of Islam"

Abu-z-zuluf'm. the Bush of Ghosts: Listen Again

pt. 1 "Regiment"

pt. 2 "The Carrier"

Lyrical Matters: On and Off the Record

All in the Mix

Reflection: Arabic Music in the Bush of Ghosts

5. Re-Imagining Westphalia: Electroacoustic Reminders

Prelude

Question-Space Methodology

Question-Spaces

Anthems with/without "Words that Maketh Murder"

"Please Be Upstanding"

Who Cares?

Electroacoustic Contexts

Concrete Music

Electroacoustic Affiliations

Sampling as Composition

Hytnnen: Re-Sounding Westphalia

Four Degrees of Separation

Thematic Architecture

Frequent Returns, Embedded and Contingent Sounds

Human Voices

Studio Conversations

"God Save the [King] Queen"

Red Threads

"Russia" and Russian Chords

Close Listening (Selected)

A. The "Internationale" (1st Centre of Region I)

B. Germany

Remembering (1 st Centre of Region II)

C. "USA Collage" (2nd Centre of Region III)

D. End Announcements (Region IV: Tracks 34-46)

Chronologies

Time and Space

Modus Operandi

Manual "Electroacousmaucs"

Beginnings, Endings, Beginnings

Sampling as Allegory

Reflections

Crossovers

Listening through Walls

Greetings from the Beatles

Stockhausen and Miles Davis

Frank Zappa

Stockhausen Encounters

Time-Shift Controversies

6. "His Master's Voice" and (R)evolutionary Signifyin'

Flashback and Fast Forward

Sampling and/as Signifyin(g)

"It's Gonna Be Real"

The Revolution Will Be Signified: Aims and Objectives

Whose Revolution Will (Not) Be Telvised, Digitized, or Fantasized?

The Poem in/as Music

Political Subtexts

The Sexual Politics of "Your Revolution"

"Not"

Sarah Jones, Suheir Hammad, and Terre Thaemlitz Answer Back

Generation Gaps

Oversights

Reconciliations

Sexual Politics

Form and Content

"Style" versus "Substance"

Legal and Definitional Tensions

Resampled Politicking

The Man Samples Back/Is Remixed

7. Conclusion

Intro: Intersections

(Re)Sample This

Recapitulations

Sampling Silence

Decolonizing Frequencies

Reclaiming the Sample

The Musico - Political is Personal

The Signifyin' Sampler

Musicking Politics Da Capo al Fine

Outro: Political Listening

Coda

Paying Tribute

Crossing the Ocean

Music for Dancing?

Beyond Sound

Tacet.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Franklin, Marianne, 1959- Sampling politics

ISBN:

9780190855475

0190855479

9780190855482

0190855487

OCLC:

1228222341

Publisher Number:

99988389675