Cutting Across Media
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Cutting Across Media

Appropriation Art, Interventionist Collage, and Copyright Law

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Cutting Across Media

Appropriation Art, Interventionist Collage, and Copyright Law

About this book

In this collection of essays, leading academics, critics, and artists historicize collage and appropriation tactics that cut across diverse media and genres. They take up issues of appropriation in the popular and the avant-garde, in altered billboards and the work of the renowned painter Chris Ofili, in hip-hop and the compositions of BĂ©la BartĂłk and ZoltĂĄn KodĂĄly, and in audio mash-ups, remixed news broadcasts, pranks, culture jamming, and numerous other cultural forms. The borrowing practices that they consider often run afoul of intellectual property regimes, and many of the contributors address the effects of copyright and trademark law on creativity. Among the contributors are the novelist and essayist Jonathan Lethem, the poet and cultural critic Joshua Clover, the filmmaker Craig Baldwin, the hip-hop historian Jeff Chang, the 'zine-maker and sound collage artist Lloyd Dunn, and Negativland, the infamous collective that was sued in 1991 for sampling U2 in a satirical sound collage. Cutting Across Media is both a serious examination of collage and appropriation practices and a celebration of their transformative political and cultural possibilities.

Contributors. Craig Baldwin, David Banash, Marcus Boon, Jeff Chang, Joshua Clover, Lorraine Morales Cox, Lloyd Dunn, Philo T. Farnsworth, Pierre Joris, Douglas Kahn, Rudolf Kuenzli, Rob Latham, Jonathan Lethem, Carrie McLaren, Kembrew McLeod, Negativland, Davis Schneiderman, David Tetzlaff, Gåbor Vålyi, Warner Special Products, Eva Hemmungs Wirtén

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. I Collage, Therefore I Am: An Introduction to Cutting Across Media
  3. Digital Mana: On the Source of the Infinite Proliferation of Mutant Copies in Contemporary Culture
  4. Copyrights and Copywrongs: An Interview with Siva Vaidhyanathan
  5. Das Plagiierenwerk: Convolute Uii
  6. PhotoStatic Magazine and the Rise of the Casual Publisher
  7. PlagiarismÂź 101: An Appropriated Oral History of The Tape-beatles
  8. Ambiguity and Theft
  9. Where Does Sad News Come From?
  10. Excerpts from “Two Relationships to a Cultural Public Domain”
  11. Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Lawsuit: William S. Burroughs, dJ Danger Mouse, and the Politics of Grey Tuesday
  12. How Copyright Law Changed Hip- Hop: An Interview with Public Enemy’s Chuck D and Hank Shocklee
  13. Hip-Hop Meets the Avant-Garde: A Cease and Desist Letter from Attorneys Representing Philip Glass
  14. Getting Snippety
  15. Crashing the Spectacle: A Forgotten History of Digital Sampling, Infringement, Copyright Liberation, and the End of Recorded Music
  16. Billboard Liberation: A Photo Essay
  17. On the Seamlessly Nomadic Future of Collage
  18. Cultural Sampling and Social Critique: The Collage Aesthetic of Chris Ofili
  19. Remixing Cultures: BartĂłk and KodĂĄly in the Age of Indigenous Cultural Rights
  20. A Day to Sing: Creativity, Diversity, and Freedom of Expression in the Network Society
  21. Visualizing Copyright, Seeing Hegemony: Toward a Meta-Critique of Intellectual Property
  22. Collage as Practice and Metaphor in Popular Culture
  23. Assassination Weapons: The Visual Culture of New Wave Science Fiction
  24. Free Culture: A Conversation with Jonathan Lethem
  25. The Ecstasy of Influence: A Plagiarism
  26. Bibliography
  27. Contributors
  28. Index