Archive for September 22nd, 2012

Woodstock and Wikipedia – A Quest for the Truth

Posted in Uncategorized on September 22, 2012 by

As some of you may remember (or will quickly find out when you go to check), I linked to an interesting video on the lifecycle of a Wikipedia article, particularly the one on the heavy metal Umlaut. For this week I will be using the standards outlined on this page to evaluate the Wikipedia page on Woodstock. Why this one? Well, a dear friend of mine brought up the point that people who say they actually remember Woodstock were probably not at Woodstock because there were drugs, man. Lots of drugs. Certainly this makes for an even more interesting evaluation.

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The Amen Break

Posted in Uncategorized on September 22, 2012 by

We’ve all heard it, whether we know it or not. The Amen Break, taken from the song “Amen Brother” by The Winstons, is a six second drum break that has been sampled and reincorporated in a multitude of songs and even commercials. The video embedded below, although somewhat lengthy, does a good job of showing both the variety of uses of the Amen Break and the issues associated with sampling of such iconic pieces of music history. Should the use of the Amen Break be more strictly regulated?

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