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• [1] John Michael from Budd Lake, NJ October 08, 2008 - 02:16PM

  I'm listening to your show now online and I'm loving this topic. As a "bedroom DJ" myself, I've always worked on mash-ups and till now it's never really been known what the deal is with them legally. Keep up the good work!

  
  
• [2] genji siraisi from NYC October 08, 2008 - 02:18PM

  Hey Steinski!

  You are the Master...It's Genji from Groove Collective...Always loved your work. Hope all is well! I remember hearing "The History..." on the radio back in the day and just freaking out and it's an honor to feel that I can say I know you today... it some serious old school street cred.

  
  
• [3] David from NYC October 08, 2008 - 02:18PM

  I was really pleased a couple of years ago to read Jonathan Lethem's Harper's essay entitled "The Ecstasy of Influence," which is spot on with this topic. Both through form and rhetoric, Lethem makes the case that all art (and all human expression) are influence (or call it plagiarism, mimesis, copying, etc.). What's interesting to me is that new art, especially music, is usually new by virtue of the way it mixes up old influences. However, as a country, we're somehow more comfortable with, say, Bob Dylan copping black blues and folk songs and synthesizing them into his work than we are with more marginalized artists, especially black artists, using audio samples to create their palate.

  I taught this article in an undergraduate essay writing class, and we turned it into a multimedia wiki. Unfortunately, I cannot share the wiki with you because of copyright concerns.

  http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/02/0081387