The postmoderism and music work, Kanye West.

Kanye West is a very well known Hip Hop American artists. He's known as a rapper, songwriter, record producer, director and fashion designer. His style of production originally used high pitched vocal samples from soul songs incorporated with his own drums and instruments. He later broadened his influences to include 1970's R&B, trip pop, arena rock, house, folk, alternative, eletronic, synthpop, industrial and classical music. Kanye does play live at his own concerts when on tour for his new album as well as doing festival shows at wireless festival for example. Many of his concerts have a show with them where Kanye performs an act to the audience with a huge show of dancers, lights, effects etc, he's known as a performer. Kanye is a strong example of post modernism, he uses many modernist tools such as samples, bricolage, pastiche and is a strong performer as well as more importantly looks like an artists more than sounds like one.
Kanye uses a lot of intertextual references in most of his songs where he references other songs through many ways. Here are just some examples of when Kanye has sampled songs and used intertextual references of other songs...

A very popular song by Kanye called Clique was created via using many samples from different sources, from African vocals to a folk punk band song. 

This is the sample Kanye took for in his song as the backing music through out the whole song, Zero G 'African voice'. This is from a guy called Zero G who actually records samples for musicians to use in their songs, they are random samples of sounds and lyrics for artists to buy for their own songs. This is an example of  bricolage as Kanye is using a sample from a different genre, African music from a completely different culture of sound. This is also an example of paying homage, Kanye is respectfully using this African sound and bringing this sound of music back into the lime light by making it current in his song.

This is a song that's sampled in Clique, James Brown 'Funky President'. This an example of inter textual reference, where an artist has references another song in their own song, in this case Kanye has taken the lyrics from this song into his own song and done very obviously.

Kanye's song was then sampled through out the whole of this song in various elements, lyrically and musically, Rick Ross 'Clique'. Rick Ross almost used the whole song and all its elements just renamed it by himself.

This song, Papoose 'Most hated alive' also samples Clique and by sampling Clique this artist is sampling all the other tracks that feature in Kanye's original song. This sample was a direct sample of many elements in clique both musically and lyrically.

This is another song by Kanye called Mercy, this also has many samples in it that created the whole song from various sources.

These are two similar samples used in Mercy, Super Beagle 'Dust out a sound boy' and Reggae Stepper 'Cuh Oonu' which use the lyrics and sounds of theses tracks, again this is an example of bricolage as this sound used is of a completely different genre of music to what Kanye produces, African reggae, but as well as genre the time era is of a much older era to now. Because Kanye has been known to use this genre and era of music before in other songs he is paying homage to this style of sound, being respectful about using this style of music on his own tracks. Reports show that after Kanye produced this song, Super Beagle found his song and himself had renewed their fame thanks to Kanye's sample in this song, bringing himself and this genre of music back into the current lime light.

This is another song sampled in Mercy, the hook and riff of this track by Giorgio Moroder 'tony's theme'. However this is a completely different genre and style of music to the style Kanye produces, so this is another example of bricolage using sounds from different eras and genres. However this doesn't seem to change the meaning and style of Clique, as Kanye made the sounds more hip and hop and current with the use of his lyrics and other sounds sampled.

This song YB 'Lambo' has its lyrics sampled in Mercy a number of times. However this the same R&B, hip hop genre that Kanye's music follows under, so therefore he has sampled this respectfully, another example of homage from Kanye due to being from the same genre of his style of music.

Lily Wayne feat Nicki Minaj and Big Sean samples Mercy in 'Mercy' and 'Higher', through various elements both musically and lyrically. However both these artists are of the same genre of hip hop as Kanye West so they are paying homage to Kanye's song using it respectfully. 

Another song of Kanye's thats more recent is called Bound 2 from his most recent album Yeezus. This song again includes many samples from various random sources. 

This song by Ponderosa Twins plus one called 'Bound' from 1971 is sampled throughout the whole of Bound 2 through various elements musically and lyrically. This song has the genre of soul, dance and funk which is again a completely different genre an era to Kanye's style of music he makes. Making this again an example of homage as he's respectfully using this forgotten and old music style as well as bricolage using sounds from different genes and eras to make current and bring back into the lime light of now. 

This is another sample in Bound 2 by Brenda Lee called 'sweet nothings' from 1959. This again is another example of bricolage using samples from different genres and era's as this song style is easy listening and is from a very old era, Kanye uses a lot of older long forgotten sounds and music to bring into the current lime light in his own music. 

Kanye's song Bound 2 is then sampled in many more songs that are of the same genre as him of hip hop and R&B. Here are some song examples where bound 2 has been sampled into these songs via multiple elements musically and lyrically. By Jon Connor 'Bound 2' and Rick Ross 'Bound 2 freestyle'. However as Rick Ross has sampled many others songs by Kanye West as seen in my research he is paying homage to Kanye and his songs by respectfully sampling his work into his own songs over and over again.

Seth Rogen and James Franco created a micky take music video of the sound bound 2. They used pastiche to mock and take the mick out of Kanye West's music video of this song, however Kanye and Kim found their music video impression hilarious and very funny.

To conclude Kanye West uses a lot of sampling in many pieces of his musical work, from music items from the 1970's to reggae music and current hip hop tracks too. His samples are always done respectfully by using various random elements from everywhere to make a current hip hop piece of music. This all why Kanye West is an example of post moderism.