[Reader-list] Rajesh Mehar - 2nd Posting

[Gabriela Vargas-Cetina]

I am reading a great book I think a lot of you would find interesting:
Haunted Weather.  Music, Silence and Memory, by David Toop.  It looks at
creativity in music in the age of electronics and laptops.

Gabriela Vargas-Cetina


On 2/19/06 10:47 AM, "rajesh mehar" <rajeshmehar at yahoo.com> wrote:

> When discussing creative musical work, we often use the terms original, copy,
> remix, cover version, and so on, loosely. These terms are thrown about as if
> there were neat categories into which every song can be categorized. Through
> the discourse of the popular media, some of these words, like original, and
> more recently, remix, have positive connotations. Some others, like copy, have
> negative connotations associated with them.
> 
> This week, I will leave you with the links to two posts on my blog for this
> research project, dealing with:
> 
> 1) Reflections on where these mystical boundary lines lie. How do tags get
> assigned to material, calling them originals, ripoffs, copies, remixes or
> cover versions?
>  (http://community.livejournal.com/whosemusic/893.html)
> 
> 2) The DJ Danger Mouse story.
> (http://community.livejournal.com/whosemusic/1265.html)
> 
> More later.
> 
> --Rajesh.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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