intriguing - there is a new book that is a reply to the late Jeremy J. Beadle's classic book of sampling / acid house era pop music analysis... */ /*Will "Will Pop Eat Itself" Eat Itself? Edited by Scott McNartry (Faber & Faber) Twelve years after Jeremy J. Beadle issued his (very British) study of "Pop Music in the Soundbite Era," 12 American critics re-examine the state of sampling and remixing in what they term the "mash-up era." The authors ask: Why /can't/ you dance to cubism? Did the KLF invent the 21st century? How in the world could Beadle have considered /Automatic for the People/ defensible as "undoubtedly the single most imaginative piece of work" of 1992? What is the current analogy to match Beadle's assertion that what MC Hammer did to Prince was what Rembrandt did to Titian? Can a form addicted to novelty ever reach a sustainable ratio of vital-works-to-disposable-dross? Will the teaches of Peaches and DJ Danger Mouse seem as quaint as Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine and Jive Bunny & the Mastermixers by the time that we get out of debtor's prisons after the RIAA class action suits of 2009? -- Stuart Young, Michelle Ardern & Felix Ardern-Young (3) Live at: 42B, Sefton Ave, Grey Lynn, Auckland, NZ Phone: +64 (0)9 376 8100 say.map@ihug.co.nz Graphic and Web design, Web development and hosting: http://www.pixelandgrain.co.nz/ Stuey's personal website - a cobweb site: http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~stuey/ Any views expressed in this email are those of the author and not of any of the organisations we are involved with. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.7.4 - Release Date: 3/18/05