You’ve heard of Earth, Wind and Fire. This is one of their hits, from an album called Touch The World, released in 1987. Never been reissued as far as I can tell. Shame to see it rot, really – especially since it raises some good questions, comments on the contemporary politics of the day and [...]
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A few things have made me question my focus on music as the territory for this conversation recently. After all, all culture is under threat as a result of copyright conservatism in a changing media environment.
Chris Bestwick raised the point in a comment on my last post, I’ve talked about it with a few people [...]
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Techdirt ran an interesting post recently about The Myth of Original Creators. In it, they explored the Romantic Era notion of the artist as the sole creative participant in a work.
And when I say ‘Romantic Era’, think Beethoven. He was the poster child for art as unique ’self expression’ rather than art as contributing participant [...]
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Dwele’s tribute to Michael Jackson is the most honest and authentic expression marking the passing of the pop legend I’ve yet seen.
Essentially a cover version, but with no reasonable cause for publishing claims or financial transactions to take place. This is simultaneously an artistic expression and cultural communication of something for which there aren’t any [...]
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Roly Keating delivers his keynote speech at FOCAL
Late last year, I was involved in a research project with the BBC’s Audio and Music Interactive Department. It was about how specialist music fans connected with the BBC with regard to that kind of programming.
You can read what we came up with as a result of that [...]
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