Joanna Demers, assistant professor of music history and literature, University of Southern California Is the creative appropriation of previously recorded music theft? Or is that act, better known as ...

You might not know the song “Amen Brother” by the Winstons, but chances are you've heard it. Or a part of it. The song's drum break is one of the most sampled pieces of music in history, says music ...

The practice of music sampling, which is the integration of pre-recorded sounds into new musical gestures, experienced a golden, unregulated age in the late 1980s that is almost unimaginable today.

"Trap and drill music sampling the old school classics sucks. I have tried to listen to akina Ice Spice and some new Gen Z music with some 90s samples, but I just can't. Lots of bass and auto-tune and ...

For passengers adding on a few days in New Orleans pre- or post- river cruise, there are a plethora of things to do, see and eat to get immersed in the history of the city and the South. New Orleans ...

Black History Month is a good time to look back and be inspired by the lives of those who faced more than their share of challenges in making a life for themselves and their descendants. Here is a ...