Loss of Music
"The hills are alive with the sound of music." The hills are alive with the sound of covered, sampled, plagiarized, and redone music. Is there any originality in music anymore? In general, popular music and culture has become an imitation of an imitation. Almost everything found in music today is sampled music from yesterday, much uglier the second time around. "Sampling," is a major issue. Sampling is the extraction of portions of another artist's prior recordings or live performances and the reproduction of these pieces in other recordings of one's own. …
