The song resurfaced decades after its original release, thanks to DJ Premier's appropriation, and it brought people to the album that contained that song, "Set Us Free," which was originally released in 1971, on Blue Note records.
It is funded as part of the Federal Reserve system, which means its budget cannot be cut through the congressional appropriations process, and it has a single powerful director, rather than the bipartisan boards found at other agencies like the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Senator Barbara Boxer, Democrat of California, has blocked it from a vote by the full Senate, but its sponsors are trying to attach it as a rider to an appropriations bill, and it could pass unnoticed in the last weeks of Congress, when so much legislation is pushed through.
Similarly, Ammiel Alcalay, a Jewish professor of Middle Eastern culture at Queens College, believes that "it's total appropriation, and that it's linked to very concrete things like land and sustenance".
The "insert clever phrase here" bit suggests that social practice and social proof really do affect these appropriation behaviors — and it is also cool that some themes emerge in them.
For example, Kippax [ 47] has argued that HIV prevention information is rarely accepted without appropriation and how it is appropriated is dependent upon the social and cultural contexts of the milieu in which it is being provided.
In her book she explains how the word "peasant" is ripe for re-appropriation, and how it could be used to denote someone who produces high-quality ingredients that are "used to make sustaining food, cooked with love, skill and a degree of care".
Like Woody Allen's "Bullets Over Broadway," in which John Cusack's playwright is tied up in moral knots because he knows he's getting his best material from Chazz Palminteri's gangster character, "You Don't Love Me Yet" takes a lighthearted approach to the potentially heavy subjects of appropriation and authorship — it's not one of those "meditation on" deals.
Congress granted an appropriation, and allowed it to be in the form of commemorative half dollars, which legislators and organizers believed could be sold at a premium.
Weaving a rich and complex imagery into dance at its most fiercely compelling evocation of the Now, a four-chapter multi-level Ouroboroic narrative -- incorporating art installation, film, video, monologue and live performance -- employed one of the deceased movement's cynical strategies, appropriation, and raised it to homage, replete with universal meaning.
