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  1. W hat are some arguments in favor of strict enforcement of current copy-
    right laws, and what are some arguments in favor of changing those laws?
    How does your own downloading behavior and that of your friends affect
    your perception of those arguments? If you are a musician, how does that
    affect your perception?

  2. What are the technical differences between sampling, remixing, and mash-up?

  3. W hat is “The Gap,” and what are some indications in our current music cul-
    ture that it is closing?


FURTHER READING
Adams, John. Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life. New York: Farrar, Straus and
Giroux, 2008.
Caponi, Gena Dagel, ed. Signifyin(g), Sanctifyin’, and Slam Dunking: A Reader in African
American Expressive Culture. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999.
Chang, Jeff. Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-hop Generation. New York: St. Martin’s
Press, 2005.
Covach, John, and Andrew Flory. What’s That Sound? An Introduction to Rock and Its History.
3d ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 2012.
DeVeaux, Scott, and Gary Giddins. Jazz. New York: W.W. Norton, 2009.
Fox, Pamela. “Time as ‘Revelator’: Alt.Country Women’s Performance of the Past.” In Old
Roots New Routes: The Cultural Politics of Alt.Country Music, ed. Pamela Fox and Barbara
Ching, 134–53. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009.
Horowitz, Joseph. Classical Music in America: A History. New York: W.W. Norton, 2007.
Katz, Mark. Capturing Sound: How Technolog y Has Changed Music. Rev. ed. Berkeley and Los
Angeles: University of California Press, 2010.
Rose, Tricia. Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America. Hanover,
NH: Wesleyan University Press and University Press of New England, 1994.
Sinnreich, Aram. Mashed Up: Music, Technolog y, and the Rise of Confi gurable Culture. Amherst:
University of Massachusetts Press, 2010.
Taylor, William “Billy.” “Jazz: America’s Classical Music.” The Black Perspective in Music 14,
no. 1 (winter 1986): 21–25.

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