Thought I'd give you a taste of what I've been listening to instead of my talking. Maybe the mashup will infuse your mind the way it has mine. Some Last Poets, Gil Scott-Heron, Quincy Jones, Marvin Gaye, Donny Hathaway and many rebellious words.
An absurdist juxtaposition; excuse the imposition.
Containing:
- Harold Pinter reading Beckett's "The Unnamable"
- John Coltrane's "My Favorite Things"
- Billie Whitelaw performing Beckett's "Not I"
A juxtaposition of poetry written around WWI with some jazz played in the early 1970s. Just dug the mashup. Hope you do too.
EDIT: The music bed is Root Down (And Get It) by Jimmy Smith from his 1972 Root Down LP.
an audio mashup featuring...
Allan Ginsberg - America
Rusty Bryant - Ga Gang Ga Goong
Ani Difranco - Self-Evident
Simon and Garfunkel - America
George W. Bush - 9/11 Speech
Tom Waits - The Pontiac
Gil Scott-Heron - The King Alfred Plan
Tom Waits - Jersey Girl
via vimeo.com
A great example about why a Creative Commons approach to copyright is so functional and versatile with the web. In this 10 minute doc, you are introduced to the content creator of an archetypal set of photos that was repurposed all over the world. He enjoys seeing his work used for non-commercial uses, but balks at those trying to make money from them. A very tight example of the inevitability of mashups and the proper concern about control over intellectual property.
Finding some cool public domain video at archive.org to put as a backdrop to Radiohead's brand new track "Little by Little" from their CD The King of Limbs was a fun exercise in disparity of time period and serendipitous web exploration.