on a question of sampling reusing appropriating whatnot there are many versions and examples of this but what about in writing in literature in art (who said good art is borrowed great art is stolen?) and what about the question (s) of using and collaging and mixing and revising and taking pieces and fragments and re-incorporating those putting them together in a similar or different way to make something that started from something but then turns different...
or, is it another version of hollywood pop-genre movies, where one is a hit so 10 or 50 more are made in slightly different form? But in hip-hop often some of the actual talent of the artists also comes through even in the face of producers, the 'demands' of the masses or whoever is claimed to specify the genre boundaries/standards, whatnot. So even though it is the same, it is at the same time always different and somehow evolving, reflecting on a variety of levels while also moving (forward, maybe, moving outward somehow from its initial moment of reflecting something...). Anyhow, it could be sort of appropriative, sort of associative and hypertextual; we start with 'this' and then add, subtract, revise, rearrange, etc and end up with 'that'...in so many ways, this is how self, society, whatever 'progresses'...
is this hypertextual or progress by association or simply that there is no such thing as real authenticity or authentic creativity? is this all bad or all good? if all art is a revision of some earlier art or work isn't the creativity then in the remix in the product of the collage the revision the etcetera...
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