Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture
Nicole Lanctot

Sound Unbound:
Sampling Digital Music and Culture
The MIT Press
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For a true music nerd, there is nothing more satisfying than listening to a piece of music, parsing out its samples, and hunting for the albums on which those sounds originally appeared. But while many fans view sampling as breathing new life into long-forgotten songs, others, of course, see it as infringement. Issues of appropriation—audio and otherwise—pervade Sound Unbound, a new anthology on digital music and culture
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