Comments on: Infrequently Asked Questions: Hip Hop http://www.jillmurray.com/2007/03/28/infrequently-asked-questions-hip-hop/ YA Author, Game Writer, Woman of Mystery Fri, 26 Aug 2011 03:13:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: risa http://www.jillmurray.com/2007/03/28/infrequently-asked-questions-hip-hop/#comment-511 risa Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:01:30 +0000 http://Moreandmorefrequently,Ifindmyselfinapositionwhere,despitemybetterjudgement,Ifeelobligatedtodefendorexplainsomeaspectofhiphop.Withbreakinginparticular,Iampowerfullymotivatedfromwithintoclearupconfusionandseecredit#comment-511 Nice! I'm so happy to find this conversation, Jill: you're awesome! and so is 'the neverending story' by the way.. at least it was when I was 9. Rappers appropriate sounds and write new words over old melodies, and they also use tons of brand names and make really specific personal and political references- in all kinds of ways the whole genre takes a freakin groundbreaking stance on the question of who owns what. ps - to make that excellent thesis about using the familiar to relate and build community, you have to include hip hop karaoke! Nice! I’m so happy to find this conversation, Jill: you’re awesome! and so is ‘the neverending story’ by the way.. at least it was when I was 9.

Rappers appropriate sounds and write new words over old melodies, and they also use tons of brand names and make really specific personal and political references- in all kinds of ways the whole genre takes a freakin groundbreaking stance on the question of who owns what.

ps – to make that excellent thesis about using the familiar to relate and build community, you have to include hip hop karaoke!

]]> By: Anita http://www.jillmurray.com/2007/03/28/infrequently-asked-questions-hip-hop/#comment-510 Anita Thu, 05 Apr 2007 21:33:50 +0000 http://Moreandmorefrequently,Ifindmyselfinapositionwhere,despitemybetterjudgement,Ifeelobligatedtodefendorexplainsomeaspectofhiphop.Withbreakinginparticular,Iampowerfullymotivatedfromwithintoclearupconfusionandseecredit#comment-510 Jill, thank you for your excellent clarification of the fundamentals of hip-hop history. It always gets me when people make ignorant comments; implying that this genre is the only one guilty of 'plagiarising'. Jill, thank you for your excellent clarification of the fundamentals of hip-hop history. It always gets me when people make ignorant comments; implying that this genre is the only one guilty of ‘plagiarising’.

]]> By: Jill http://www.jillmurray.com/2007/03/28/infrequently-asked-questions-hip-hop/#comment-509 Jill Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:06:24 +0000 http://Moreandmorefrequently,Ifindmyselfinapositionwhere,despitemybetterjudgement,Ifeelobligatedtodefendorexplainsomeaspectofhiphop.Withbreakinginparticular,Iampowerfullymotivatedfromwithintoclearupconfusionandseecredit#comment-509 Yeah. There's that too. Or all the "rock" bands with leanings towards the Beatles, or Trent Reznor's whole deal, or the practice in classical music to compose a "variation on a theme by..." or all the songs from the 50s and 60s that use themes from obvious classical pieces as their hook. And then literature, theatre, dance... reinterpretations galore. There's a broader thesis in here somewhere about using the familiar to communicate and relate to one another. I haven't seen Neverending Story, but that sounds hilarious. All I have to compare to that is that I'm 99.999% certain there's a sample of Tchaicovsky's Waltz of The Sugar Plum Fairy in a track from The Herbaliser. But it sounds really cool. I don't think it's dorky, except in the most positive possible sense. Yeah. There’s that too. Or all the “rock” bands with leanings towards the Beatles, or Trent Reznor’s whole deal, or the practice in classical music to compose a “variation on a theme by…” or all the songs from the 50s and 60s that use themes from obvious classical pieces as their hook.

And then literature, theatre, dance… reinterpretations galore.

There’s a broader thesis in here somewhere about using the familiar to communicate and relate to one another.

I haven’t seen Neverending Story, but that sounds hilarious.

All I have to compare to that is that I’m 99.999% certain there’s a sample of Tchaicovsky’s Waltz of The Sugar Plum Fairy in a track from The Herbaliser. But it sounds really cool. I don’t think it’s dorky, except in the most positive possible sense.

]]> By: lauralyn http://www.jillmurray.com/2007/03/28/infrequently-asked-questions-hip-hop/#comment-508 lauralyn Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:26:52 +0000 http://Moreandmorefrequently,Ifindmyselfinapositionwhere,despitemybetterjudgement,Ifeelobligatedtodefendorexplainsomeaspectofhiphop.Withbreakinginparticular,Iampowerfullymotivatedfromwithintoclearupconfusionandseecredit#comment-508 It isn't like all of pop music in general is constantly cannibalizing itself. There are unbelievable rip-offs, my favourite being the chorus of the song 'One' by the backstreet boys which is totally the theme of the movie "the neverending story". How uncool is that? It isn’t like all of pop music in general is constantly cannibalizing itself. There are unbelievable rip-offs, my favourite being the chorus of the song ‘One’ by the backstreet boys which is totally the theme of the movie “the neverending story”.

How uncool is that?

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