NateHarrisonCanIGetAnAmen Nate Harrison movies opensource_movies <I><B>Can I Get An Amen?</B></I> is an audio installation that unfolds a critical perspective of perhaps the most sampled drums beat in the history of recorded music, the Amen Break. It begins with the pop track <I>Amen Brother</I> by 60's soul band The Winstons, and traces the transformation of their drum solo from its original context as part of a 'B' side vinyl single into its use as a key aural ingredient in contemporary cultural expression. The work attempts to bring into scrutiny the techno-utopian notion that 'information wants to be free'- it questions its effectiveness as a democratizing agent. This as well as other issues are foregrounded through a history of the Amen Break and its peculiar relationship to current copyright law. 2004 2004 break, breakbeat, sample, jungle, copyright, hip-hip, sampler, drums http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ 2005-07-26 21:25:45 2005-07-26 08:37:04 Nate Harrison nate@eslprojects.org Nate Harrison 2005-07-26 22:17:54 Nate Harrison Nate Harrison Nate Harrison stereo color 17:46 nate@nkhstudio.com, www.nkhstudio.com MovingImage 2006-06-23 17:48:12 Nate Harrison