Jonathan Lethem In The Ecstasy Of Influence Summary

Jonathan Lethem, the author is demonstrating how people call the plagiarism or not, and he is also showing his point of view on adopting ideas. Plagiarism is the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own. In his essay, In the Ecstasy of Influence, he explains that influences and sharing ideas give creativeness. Lethem quotes “Finding one’s voice isn’t just an emptying and purifying oneself of the words of others but an adopting and embracing of filiations, communities, and discourses.” The term of embracing of filiations is a really good argument, because Humans grow and move from one stage to another inspired by each other. Everybody start from something. The term plagiarism can be used by some authors to call similarities of ideas in the literature’s field. However, plagiarism at school is a very big deal and it …show more content…
However, when artists have the rights of remixing or sampling, they get influenced from another song to create a new one, with their own style. I have been experienced a lot this situation with my family which is musician. My dad is a pianist, and my brother play trumpet, they both are professional and they have a style really personal in jazz and classic. My brother is also mixing for festival which is not really common for a classical trumpeter. He remix a lot of "dubstep" song where he adds some trumpet and piano which makes it very special. Sharing ideas with my dad and around help him a lot. By doing this, he uses his personal knowledge and style which give him creativeness and make another genre of music. I figured out that some people which did not like dubstep song, start to like it better after his remix. Here again I believe it is not a plagiarism of a song but it is more being inspired by something known to create something new by adding our own personality. We can find