MLA Commons | Amanda Sewell | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/amandasewell/activity/ Activity feed for Amanda Sewell. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:44:32 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 746b73c8a93233962da8922c8a6ec69e Amanda Sewell's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1660873/ Wed, 21 Aug 2019 23:41:03 -0400 0 cbd5754a1c0f8a06db4da47004ffa55f Amanda Sewell deposited The Sampling Network of Public Enemy's "Bring the Noise" https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1602571/ Mon, 05 Mar 2018 15:57:52 -0500 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]

]]> 0 7a080e0bf002dad172ee3eac7825cabd Amanda Sewell deposited Paul's Boutique and Fear of a Black Planet: Digital Sampling and Musical Style in Hip Hop https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1602565/ Mon, 05 Mar 2018 15:36:40 -0500 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]

]]> 0 eeb2543b65fa2ae5d6516c56557d7b77 Amanda Sewell deposited How Copyright Affected the Musical Style and Critical Reception of Sample-Based Hip-Hop https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1602564/ Mon, 05 Mar 2018 15:31:00 -0500 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]

]]> 0 40f564fa4cdcbb8b58f53541972848d2 Amanda Sewell's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1602563/ Mon, 05 Mar 2018 15:22:55 -0500 0 dd27f18f5518512c86887240895569dc Amanda Sewell deposited A Typology of Sampling in Hip-Hop https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1602562/ Mon, 05 Mar 2018 15:15:09 -0500 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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