I'm beginning work on some social networking research that looks at ties between hip hop/electronic producers and the artists they sample. I was wondering if anyone knew about resources available for uncovering such data. My initial idea was to look at licensing fees paid by a set of artists, otherwise I'm not sure how/if it would be possible to get access to that information shy of lurking on dodgy sample-spotter listservs. Any thoughts? I'd be particularly interested in getting access to data on underground hip hop and/or downtempo producers, if that helps narrow the field a bit. Many thanks, Pete Welsch - pwelsch@indiana.edu ------------------------------------- http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~pwelsch "That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation." - Thomas Jefferson, 1813