From the decade that brought you this lovely band.. it’s the 90s! A quick podcast about how we find ourselves in a modern music world filled with aural diversity.. thanks to artist experimentation and derivative culture!
22:43, Dec 1st, 08
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Under pressure to incorporate more research analysis in my Travelogues, I Get Weak so I took these Broken Wings and learned to fly again by doing some analysis this week. I’m going to have a totally Manic Monday next week so I figured I’d plow through the Awesome 80s with a listening lab! What happens when a naive 60s pop hit goddess is asked to come perform in the terrifyingly cheesy music world of the 80s? Find out when you listen to Eddie Money’s pub hit Take Me Home Tonight!
Straight Up now tell me what you think about sampling at this point. Have you learned anything? I recognize this stuff is basic, but I’m using these travelogues as a means to get people to listen and examine sampling more closely.
Now, Let’s Hear It For The Boy as he talks about sampling as a way of reminding listeners of pop history!
14:45, Nov 29th, 08
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Umm OBVI as with any podcast there has to be a HOLIDAY SPECIAL! Here is the New Media MashUp Holiday Special on Cover Versions! How did cover versions start? Are they legit or lame? This and more inside tonight’s podcast!!
If you listen, help me out with my arguments- I feel very passionately about the fact that Kidzbop covers are simply cash schemes whereas covers as artistic reworkings (No Doubt, Taylor Swift, All Time Low, and David Archuleta) are pretty damn awesome. I think the motivations behind the two types are completely different, and therefore provide a different artistic product. Am I completely off base in thinking that the types of covers are different? What do you think?
19:26, Nov 28th, 08
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C’mon get happy and listen to my travelogue about Sampling in the 1970s! This time I talk about Sugar Hill Gang’s smash hit Rapper’s Delight. Again, chock full of great music, fun facts you may not have known about your favorite songs, and there just might be a recording of me attempting to rap. So put on your bellbottoms, eat some turkey (or tofurkey), trip on some acid, and have a groovy Thanksgiving 
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15:14, Nov 27th, 08
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Tonight’s travelogue takes us back to a simpler time in our nation’s history- the Swingin’ Sixties! Let’s learn about some of the earliest remix culture in history, shall we? C’mon daddy-o! Put on your go-go boots and let’s get goin!
The issues of ownership, copyright, and corporate consolidation, as it turns out, have a lot to do with our readings for this week, and subsequently, my conclusion.
There are a few final notes I want to make about the Muxtape situation…
So the news is out…
Although I am still concerned and interested in the (seemingly ’indirect’) pressures the major labels and major (digital) music distributors – like Myspace- may have over the new music sharing site that Muxtape has proposed to turn into, I will save those inquiries for my next travelogue. This is because I came across this quote recently, which got me thinking…
“An RIAA spokesperson confirmed to Ars that it was indeed responsible for the site ceasing operations. At issue is Muxtape’s hosting and streaming of MP3s, which the RIAA says violates the record labels’ copyrights. “For the past several months, we have communicated concerns to Muxtape on behalf of our members,” the spokesperson told Ars. “Muxtape has not yet obtained authorization from our member companies to host or stream copies of their sound recordings.”
In a digital, or even a conventional public experience, this really raises an eyebrow. With muxtape, it was not possible to embed music; it was just presented on a forum to listen to, by the actual users, not the host site. It was in no way an original Napster-like situation. This made me think about concepts of ownership and the emphasis on the importants of ownership in America that can be a whole lot of crazy.
File sharing: refers to the providing and receiving of digital files over a network, usually following the peer-to-peer (P2P) model, where the files are stored on and served by personal computers of the users.
In next week we will conclude the second journey we started two weeks ago, each of you with her own brave path through different new media environments. We have started some very interesting journeys here, but there is still a long week ahead of us. This is what you should expect to achieve during this week:
By Friday Night:
By Monday Night (preferably earlier):
Required Viewing:
Recommended Reading:
David:
Muxtape was awesome, just search a song or a band and a bunch of user names will come up with their Muxtape that you can listen to. Voila, you have not only what you wanted to hear but a platform for discovering new music as well.
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