[Commons-Law] piracy or spreading the message
Via: solomon benjamin
Hi,
I listened to a particularly interesting radio program
(Cand. Broadcasting Corporaton CBC1) on the history of
rock n role and Elvis (this is presumbly avaliable in
a few days at:
http://www.randysvinyltap.com/main.php?ch=1
Randy ___ (?) the RJ showed how R&R borrowed heavily
from the earlier Blues, and Elvis in particular. In
several cases, 'copying' songs but changing their
rythem, and bringing in a particular swing or
styization. This also happened when the common
practice was, when youths visiting their grandparents
houses, would take along their fav. records and
through the week end play these continously over and
over again. I presume the grandparents were a bit hard
of hearing. That was a big influence, and Randy was
able to trace out Elvis's fav. records and used them
to show how these shaped his own music.
He then made an interesting point to say that rather
than 'copy' he preferred to term it as 'spreading the
message'. I thought that here was a interesting
example of how 'piracy' can spur a 'creative culture'.
There are wider issues of property in the way such
copy culture relates to forms of capital. Perhaps 3
years BBC world that ran a series on how the Blues
music 'moved up' through the depression from the
Southern
states to the Chicago area. They had wonderful
excertps from Muddy Waters, and that lineage. They
also mentioned that when the 'market' for White
communities in the US began to boom, in a industry
flavored by racial overtones, the recording companies
sought to tone down
the radical and political, and re-package it. Certain
playing styles and tones whch conveyed a sort of hard
life --a sharp steel metallic twang made way for a
softer and smoother form more appropriate for
(white?) dance music -- furthermore, they did refer to
a role played by Elvis in this process.
This will always be the case with art, finance, and
politics so intertwined. And perhaps the radical
remains in art is its' ability to be inspired or copy
or messaged: as many would aggree, there is no one
author or artist, we are all part of creative common.
For sure some forms of big business get their way at
times, but then, just look at the Elvis Lookalikes
that we had congregating 10 days back the world over.
The king lives among the commons.
Solly
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Hi,
I listened to a particularly interesting radio program
(Cand. Broadcasting Corporaton CBC1) on the history of
rock n role and Elvis (this is presumbly avaliable in
a few days at:
http://www.randysvinyltap.com/main.php?ch=1
Randy ___ (?) the RJ showed how R&R borrowed heavily
from the earlier Blues, and Elvis in particular. In
several cases, 'copying' songs but changing their
rythem, and bringing in a particular swing or
styization. This also happened when the common
practice was, when youths visiting their grandparents
houses, would take along their fav. records and
through the week end play these continously over and
over again. I presume the grandparents were a bit hard
of hearing. That was a big influence, and Randy was
able to trace out Elvis's fav. records and used them
to show how these shaped his own music.
He then made an interesting point to say that rather
than 'copy' he preferred to term it as 'spreading the
message'. I thought that here was a interesting
example of how 'piracy' can spur a 'creative culture'.
There are wider issues of property in the way such
copy culture relates to forms of capital. Perhaps 3
years BBC world that ran a series on how the Blues
music 'moved up' through the depression from the
Southern
states to the Chicago area. They had wonderful
excertps from Muddy Waters, and that lineage. They
also mentioned that when the 'market' for White
communities in the US began to boom, in a industry
flavored by racial overtones, the recording companies
sought to tone down
the radical and political, and re-package it. Certain
playing styles and tones whch conveyed a sort of hard
life --a sharp steel metallic twang made way for a
softer and smoother form more appropriate for
(white?) dance music -- furthermore, they did refer to
a role played by Elvis in this process.
This will always be the case with art, finance, and
politics so intertwined. And perhaps the radical
remains in art is its' ability to be inspired or copy
or messaged: as many would aggree, there is no one
author or artist, we are all part of creative common.
For sure some forms of big business get their way at
times, but then, just look at the Elvis Lookalikes
that we had congregating 10 days back the world over.
The king lives among the commons.
Solly
DELETE button is history. Unlimited mail storage is just a click away. Go to https://edit.india.yahoo.com/config/eval_register
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