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<blockquote data-quote="The-Magic-Sword" data-source="post: 8353075" data-attributes="member: 6801252">Reproducibility is a big part of it too I think, traditionally if I could perform a piece of music written by someone else near perfectly, that was the main way in which people could hear it, assuming the original artist wasn't at hand. But today, if I can do a pretty good cover of like, a Taylor Swift song, you could literally just go and listen to the original Taylor Swift album recording instead, so my cover doesn't have meaningful utility in allowing you to hear the song.I am vaguely reminded of the Tale of Genji, where characters are always calling back to older works of their time in order to convey how well read they are, and utilize the same works as a kind of shared cultural language to express themselves. This extends to the character's deploying intentional variations on poems and such, to twist the meaning in an artful way. We see this more broadly, where popular works iterating on folktales were opportunities for artists of the current generation to express themselves 'against' the backdrop of the existing traditional works, artfully twisting them to comment on their contemporary lives, or to explore new ideas, or even adapt them to new mediums.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The-Magic-Sword, post: 8353075, member: 6801252"] Reproducibility is a big part of it too I think, traditionally if I could perform a piece of music written by someone else near perfectly, that was the main way in which people could hear it, assuming the original artist wasn't at hand. But today, if I can do a pretty good cover of like, a Taylor Swift song, you could literally just go and listen to the original Taylor Swift album recording instead, so my cover doesn't have meaningful utility in allowing you to hear the song. I am vaguely reminded of the Tale of Genji, where characters are always calling back to older works of their time in order to convey how well read they are, and utilize the same works as a kind of shared cultural language to express themselves. This extends to the character's deploying intentional variations on poems and such, to twist the meaning in an artful way. We see this more broadly, where popular works iterating on folktales were opportunities for artists of the current generation to express themselves 'against' the backdrop of the existing traditional works, artfully twisting them to comment on their contemporary lives, or to explore new ideas, or even adapt them to new mediums. [/QUOTE]

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