For the purposes of this blog, I’m mostly concerned with issues of ownership, identity and authenticity in music.
Key posts in the politics category:
- Jay-Z and Alan Lomax
- Bitter Sweet Symphony
- Biz Markie gets the copyright smackdown
- The Michael Jackson sample map goes viral
- Who owns the Makossa chant?
- White people and hip-hop
- Mashups are micro-mixtapes
- In praise of copying
- The complicated case of Antoine Dodson
See a complete archive of posts in each category: