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Illegality as art: musicians challenged copyright with creative sampling.
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    184 pages

  • Release Date

    13 November 2025

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Summary

Featuring interviews with John Oswald, Negativland, and others and drawing on a wealth of research on copyright and intellectual property, Plunderphonics explores the impact of a genre that made illegality a point of pride.

In Plunderphonics, Matthew Blackwell tells the story of a group of musicians who advocated for changes to the copyright system by deploying unlicensed samples in their recordings. The composer John Oswald, who coined the genre term “p…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9798765119488
Author:Matthew Blackwell
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:Bloomsbury Academic
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:184
Release Date:13 November 2025
Weight:220g
Dimensions:12mm x 126mm x 196mm
Series:Genre: A 33 1/3 Series
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Plunderphonics by Matthew Blackwell - ISBN: 9798765119488
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About The Author

Matthew Blackwell

Matthew Blackwell is a music critic and writer whose work has appeared in Pitchfork, Bandcamp Daily, Tone Glow, the LA Review of Books, and elsewhere. He holds a Ph.D in English Literature from the University of Iowa. He lives in Tenerife, Spain.

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