What is the name of the debating trick that starts with making wide sweeping statements about the community of your opponent, like in:
Our 61st Febember blog post on Chocolate Cookies has generated significant attention. It is gratifying to see culinary experts like Cookie Monster respond. Not so gratifying is that Cookie Monster's response reveals that even experts in pastry can fail to understand the dietary implications of the recipes they work with daily. This has been a longstanding problem in the culinary community.
This video contains an expose by Nate Harrisson about the "Amen Break". I did not know about the "Amen Break" as a concept and this video is an eyeopener. A good piece of music history and theory that, when you are only remotely interested in the history of modern music, you should listen to.
Nate Wilson uses the history of the Amen Break to make an elloquent
argument about "innovation" in arts and culture being stiffled by to
strict copyright rules.
Well worth 18 minutes of your time. One remark: this YouTube content is radio, not video.
For those who do not know what the Amen Break is here follows the first paragraph of the Wikipedia lemma:
(usually pronounced //ɑ:'mmɛn/) was a drum-solo performed by Gregory Sylvester "G.C." Coleman. The "Amen Break", "Amen" or imitations thereof, are frequently used as sampleddrumloops in hip hop, jungle and drum and bass
music. It is 5.20 seconds long and consists of 4 bars of the drum-solo
sampled from the song "Amen, Brother" as performed by the 1960sfunk and soul outfit The Winstons. The song is an up-tempo instrumental rendition of an older gospel music classic. The Winstons' version was released as a B-side of the 45 RPM7-inch vinyl single "Color Him Father" in 1969 on Metromedia (MMS-117), and is currently available on several compilations and on a 12-inch vinyl re-release together with other songs by The Winstons.
