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Skinhead Subculture

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Essentialism affects music in reference to race it sets an identity for ethnic groups of people to act in. For instance Michael Jackson and Prince were boycotted by many African American store owners because they didn’t act a certain and were considered too feminine. For instance many African American rappers usually have an intimating image

2a) Subculture is a cultural group that’s part of a larger culture, often having beliefs or interests in opposition with those of the larger culture [1]. subcultures can be political because of the things it’s followers stand for, for example punk has ties with skinhead subculture and influences it. Whereas with disco, can be seen political in the sense that it catered to Black and Latino homosexuals …show more content…

Jay-Z stated that “ I'm not a biter I'm a writer for myself and others/I say a B.I.G. verse, I'm only biggin up my brother/Biggin up my borough, I'm big enough to do it/I'm that thorough, plus I know my own flow is foolish.”[2] Explaining that when he is sampling other artist’s music he is doing it out of respect.

There are different ways an musician can sample a song sometimes, musicians sample the beat of a song and play it as background music that way it is not very recognizable by the listener, a good example of this is Sean Kingston’s song Beautiful Girls samples Ben E. King’s Stand by me. Sometimes musicians sample an entire song this is known as a cover Gym Class Heroes does this in their song cupid’s chokehold where they sample Supertramp’s Breakfast in America.

Copyright lasts a very long time, musicians need to either get permission to sample a song or look for a piece that is no longer protected under copyright laws. Works published before 1923 are now in the public domain [3], meaning anyone can sample a song that was published before that date. Works published after 1922 but before 1978 are protected 95 years from publication date, however if the work was published after 1978 it will be protected for the life of the author plus an additional 70

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