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Re:How Musicians Make Money, Or Don’t, In 2018 by WalterBright on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @02:19PM (#17718122)
I've collected a lot of music from the 60's. An interesting thing about that era is most of the content was covers of existing popular tunes. Albums and albums full of re-arranged re-implementations. That practice pretty much stopped in the 70s.
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Re:How Musicians Make Money, Or Don’t, In 2018 by synthmeat on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @06:07PM (#17719941)
And in the 50s, it was jazz motifs variations. And in 40s, eh, just take a quick stroll through Ink Spots repertoire [1] - it's basically the same song all the time. And few decades before that, it was just sheet music reproduction.

70s and (particulary) 80s were all about sound texture cloning. Were it particular guitar amp/pedal arrangement, or korg/roland sound du jour.

I don't think it changed much in essence, only in form of cloning flattery. Today, kids buy trap samples.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmT8S3qZnNk&list=PL210003EC6...

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