Blackwell, Matthew - 33 1/3 Genre : Plunderphonics (14)

Uses key releases from John Oswald, Negativland, The Avalanches and Girl Talk to fully explicate the evolving attitudes toward originality and intellectual property from the 1980s to today The role of sampling in the rise of hip-hop and rap has been thoroughly documented, but there has yet to be a book-length treatment of plunderphonics, the genre that made illegality a feature, not an obstacle, of using others’ works Features exclusive interviews with John Oswald, Negativland, Girl Talk, and others