The postmodern sensibility that anything can be considered cool in an ironic 'I know it's bad, but it's so bad it's good' way
Work that is created based (entirely or in part) on older material. This incorporates sampling and will take you from the realms of hip hop culture transporting you finally in today's modern fragmented musical landscape. You will have to listen to some of the artists to fully appreciate them and their work.
Audiences that are both niche and mainstream e.g. radio 1, 1xtra, BBC6, XFM
The ways in which people engage and listen to music e.g. Ipod, DAB, mobile phones etc.
The legal issues surrounding sampling. (Led Zeppelin 'borrowed' heavily from old bluesmen and it took years for the songwriters to be credited and paid royalties. The same group took a hard-line stance initially to be sampled by hip hop groups.)
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The state of the music industry incorporating any recent developments that change how we access/interact with music e.g. Spotify, X factor, iTunes, illegal downloading free cds with newspapers etc.
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