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Amanda Sewell deposited The Sampling Network of Public Enemy’s “Bring the Noise” on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months ago
Since its release in 1987, Public Enemy’s “Bring the Noise” has been sampled over one hundred times by more than sixty different hip-hop artists. The resulting tangle of artists, producers, sampled material, and sampling techniques from the past twenty-five years creates a complex network of sampling practices and traditions surrounding “Brin…[Read more]
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Amanda Sewell deposited Paul’s Boutique and Fear of a Black Planet: Digital Sampling and Musical Style in Hip Hop on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months ago
The Beastie Boys’ Paul’s Boutique (1989) and Public Enemy’s Fear of a Black Planet (1990) often draw comparisons because of their profuse and eclectic use of digital sampling. These two hip hop albums, however, use sampling in markedly different ways, a fact that is obscured because no well-developed language exists to differentiate how and why t…[Read more]
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Amanda Sewell deposited How Copyright Affected the Musical Style and Critical Reception of Sample-Based Hip-Hop on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months ago
In 1991, the first lawsuit regarding sample-based hip hop, Grand Upright Music Ltd. v. Warner Brothers Records, was decided in court, and this decision forever changed how artists and their record labels approached sample-based hip hop. Although several lawsuits had been filed before 1991, all of those were settled out of court. There was no…[Read more]
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Amanda Sewell's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months ago
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Amanda Sewell deposited A Typology of Sampling in Hip-Hop on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months ago
Hip-hop producers rely on several specific formulas to create sample-based hip-hop. Developed with a combination of analysis and ethnography, this typology of sampling is a systematic terminological and conceptual approach to this repertoire. There are three main types of samples: structural samples, surface samples, and lyric samples. Each of…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick posted an update on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month ago
Happy new year, Humanities Commons! May it be a productive one for the community we are growing here.
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick posted an update on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month ago
I am delighted to get to announce today that Generous Thinking is under contract to Johns Hopkins UP. I’m in the midst of wrapping up the draft and planning the community/open review process, which will take place here at Humanities Commons. More information about all that soon!
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick started the topic Survey of DH work in the discussion
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThe Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and Center for Open Science (COS) are conducting a survey in order to understand how libraries can make digital humanities (DH) projects more visible, citable, and discoverable on the web.
More information about the survey is available at…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick started the topic Assoc/Full Professor, Literary Studies, Digital Humanities, Critical Diversity in the discussion
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThe Department of English at Michigan State University invites applications for a scholar, at the level of Associate or Full Professor, whose work connects literary studies and the digital humanities to critical diversity. This position is part of the College of Arts and Letters’ Critical Diversity in a Digital Age initiative, which will f…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick started the topic Assoc/Full Professor, Literary Studies, Digital Humanities, Critical Diversity in the discussion
Postcolonial Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThe Department of English at Michigan State University invites applications for a scholar, at the level of Associate or Full Professor, whose work connects literary studies and the digital humanities to critical diversity. This position is part of the College of Arts and Letters’ Critical Diversity in a Digital Age initiative, which will f…[Read more]
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Andreas Ferus deposited Open Access & Repositorien (Open Access & Repositories) on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months ago
Mit dem Ziel Zweitveröffentlichungen auf dem Wege des sog. „Green Open Access“ zu fördern und den Anteil an wissenschaftlichen Publikationen in Repositorien zu erhöhen, wurde in Österreich im Rahmen der Urheberrechtsnovelle 2015 ein „Zweitverwertungsrecht von Urhebern wissenschaftlicher Beiträge“ beschlossen. Dabei handelt es sich grundsätzlic…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick posted an update on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months ago
Having an energizing first morning at #DLFforum. Right now in #m1a, hearing about issues of labor, collaboration, credit in digital libraries and digital humanities projects.
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick posted an update on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months ago
Thinking about how institutions and organizations might work toward collective solutions to shared problems: The Commons and the Common Good. http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/the-commons-and-the-common-good/
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Thanks for this, @kfitz! It’s definitely the number one takeaway from this week’s Humanities Commons planning meeting.
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick posted an update on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months ago
A fantastic, energizing, exhausting day brainstorming with a bunch of org leaders about future possibilities for Humanities Commons. Stay tuned!
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 4 months ago
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Andreas Ferus deposited Open Access-Monitoring in Österreich – it’s work in progress on Humanities Commons 8 years, 4 months ago
Der Vortrag bietet einen ersten Einblick in die bisherigen Ergebnisse jener Arbeitsgruppe, die sich im Rahmen des Hochschulraumstrukturmittelprojekts Austrian Transition to Open Access (AT2OA) mit der Erstellung eines Konzepts für ein Open Access-Monitoring in Österreich beschäftigt.
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Andrew Eisenberg deposited Badenya: Manden Jaliya in New York City [Recording Review] on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months ago
Review: Badenya: Manden Jaliya in New York City. From the series: Global Beat of the Boroughs by Tom van Buren; Abou Sylla; Center for Traditional Music and Dance, New York
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Andrew Eisenberg deposited Rumba Rules: The Politics of Dance Music in Mobutu’s Zaire by Bob W. White on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months ago
Review of: Rumba Rules: The Politics of Dance Music in Mobutu’s Zaire by Bob W. White.
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Andrew Eisenberg deposited Sound of Africa! Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio by Louise Meintjes on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months ago
Review of: Sound of Africa! Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio, by Louise Meintjes.
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