plagiarism
Someone steals someone else’s creative work and presents it as their own, with minimal or no modification. Plagiarism is sometimes unconscious, but often it is intentional fraud.
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imitation (style appropriation)
A person models their creative style, performance or songwriting style, etc on another person’s style. Members of one culture adopt or adapt the style of another culture. For example, Elvis and black rock and roll; Lady Gaga and Madonna.
appropriation (in the arts)
Appropriation in this context means taking some else’s creative work and reworking it for your own purposes. Cultural appropriation The adoption, borrowing, or theft of elements of one culture by members of another culture. Style appropriation Taking over another culture’s style or way of expressing itself for your own purposes. Creative appropriation in general Taking Read More …
variations on a theme
In the classical period of Western music the only generally legitimate ways a composer would appropriate another composer’s music would be to “transcribe” it for different instrumentation, or to write variations on that composer’s theme. Sometimes variations would be called a “rhapsody on the theme” or a “fantasia on the theme,” etc. The use of Read More …
Jes’ Grew®
The phrase “jes’ grew” became a common shorthand way of referring to something whose origins are not easily reduced to human intentions and actions, but more the result of an organic, natural, complex process. Someone who feels the city of Toronto as it exists today evolved more due to diverse events, interests, natural phenomena, accidents, Read More …
00 Romantic Originality and The Anxiety of Influence [optional reading]
The late 1700s and early 1800s saw the emergence in Western Culture of what came to be called Romanticism. This movement was marked among other things by a desire to reject the past and encourage a revolutionary spirit in all things. The French and American revolutions can be seen as taking part in this, and Read More …
mashup (audio)
An audio mashup takes parts of two or more recorded songs by different artists – maybe people who would never willingly be part of one another’s music – and creates a new song based entirely on these source songs. Mashups were originally done mostly by amateurs using computer software to combine the elements of the Read More …
remix (strict sense)
The strict sense of remix involves someone (usually legally) creating a new mix using the recorded elements of someone else’s song. Originally remixes were extended dance versions of song for clubs, and this is still probably the most common kind of remix. Remixes are usually authorized by the artist or copyright holder of the original, Read More …
sampling
Sampling is the use of part of somebody else’s recording as part of your own musical performance or recording (accompaniment, chorus, rhythm track, occasional hook, etc). The term is now sometimes used in an extended sense outside of music production, for instance one can speak of “sampling” part of a movie for a video mashup. Read More …