Music sampling is a clever way for artist to produce songs that demonstrates their admiration of other artists by integrating part of their music into their own. Music sampling is not new, sampling started in the 1940s when composers and artists would use someone else’s music to create their own piece of music without asking the original artist for permission or giving the proper credit. Due to music sampling, in today’s society we have a variety of music genres. Sampling reconnects many listeners to past events and will allow future artists to be to develop new forms to express themselves by using preexisting ideas to create a new sound. For many years artist have been sampling music. Although many may question the definition …show more content…
Music sampling began in the 1940’s and has been used ‘til this day. The introduction of music sampling and hip-hop was a turning point in history leading into a powerful cultural and musical movement. Most of the music that is used for sampling came from Jazz music. . It wasn’t until the 1970s and early ‘80s that music sampling really “blow up” with hip-hop. Vinyl records and tape loops were used to sample music . The sampling was done by DJs who had turntables. For more than fifty years music sampling has evolved, beginning with classical composers and is now moving through the hip-hop industry. Hip hop and rap has relied on the practice of sampling ever since, but you 'll find examples of sampling in other genres occasionally. But legal issues have largely stifled its widespread …show more content…
It can be regulated by developing a legalized contract and discussing copyright permission from the owners, etc. Although artist don’t intentionally mean to use samples and try to pass them off as their own, copyright owners still saw it as a problem and sued whomever it was that sampled the music. If music sampling was regulated properly there would be less commotion in the music industry. Regulating music sampling would be a big help because it would be fixed to where both the artists (the original artist& the sampled artist) would get paid for the piece of music that sells in stores. Therefore both artist would get paid an equal amount of money and the original artist would receive proper recognition and compensation for the original