Plunderphonics
$31.10
- Paperback
184 pages
- Release Date
13 November 2025
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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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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