23.04.2021

“The Piracy Crusade: How the Music Industry’s War on Sharing Destroys Markets and Erodes Civil Liberties” by Aram Sinnreich

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"The Piracy Crusade: How the Music Industry's War on Sharing Destroys Markets and Erodes Civil Liberties" by Aram Sinnreich
The Piracy Crusade: How the Music Industry's War on Sharing Destroys Markets and Erodes Civil Liberties the decade and a half since Napster first emerged, forever changing the face of digital culture, the claim that "internet pirates killed the music industry" has become so ubiquitous that it is treated as common knowledge. Piracy is a scourge on legitimate businesses and hard-working artists, we are told, a "cybercrime" similar to identity fraud or even terrorism. In The Piracy Crusade, Aram Sinnreich critiques the notion of "piracy" as a myth perpetuated by today's cultural cartels―the handful of companies that dominate the film, software, and especially music industries. As digital networks have permeated our social environment, they...>>
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23.04.2021

“Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates” by Adrian Johns

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"Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates" by Adrian Johns
"Since the rise of Napster and other file-sharing services in its wake, most of us have assumed that intellectual piracy is a product of the digital age and that it threatens creative expression as never before. The Motion Picture Association of America, for instance, claimed that in 2005 the film industry lost $2.3 billion in revenue to piracy online. But here Adrian Johns shows that piracy has a much longer and more vital history than we have realized—one that has been largely forgotten and is little understood. Piracy explores the intellectual property wars from the advent of print culture in the fifteenth century to the reign of the Internet in the twenty-first. Brimming with broader...>>
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22.04.2021

“21st-Century Gothic: Great Gothic Novels Since 2000” edited by Danel Olson

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"21st-Century Gothic: Great Gothic Novels Since 2000" edited by Danel Olson
"Selected by a poll of more than 180 Gothic specialists, the works described and evaluated in 21st CENTURY GOTHIC represent the most impressive Gothic novels and novellas written around the world between the years 2000-2010. Contributors of the fifty-three all-new essays include award-winning novelists, playwrights, biographers, editors, psychoanalysts, forensic psychologists, criminologists, film scholars, humanities librarians, and many of the most influential neo-Gothic literary critics of the last thirty years. Designed for the Gothic fan, student, and critic alike, this massive guide also includes a perceptive foreword by Horror scholar S.T. Joshi and an equally compelling introduction by Gothic anthologist Danel Olson. Small B&W reproductions of the novels' dust jackets preface each long original essay...>>
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22.04.2021

“The Gothic Vision: Three Centuries of Horror, Terror and Fear” by Dani Cavallaro

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"The Gothic Vision: Three Centuries of Horror, Terror and Fear" by Dani Cavallaro
"The Gothic Vision examines a broad range of tales of horror, terror, the uncanny and the supernatural, spanning the late-eighteenth century to the present, and of related theoretical approaches to the realm of dark writing. It argues that such narratives are objects for historical analysis, due to their implication in specific ideologies, whilst also focusing on the recurrence over time of themes of physical and psychological disintegration, spectrality and monstrosity. Central to the book's argument is the proposition that fear is a ubiquitous phenomenon, capable of awakening consciousness even as it appears to paralyze it."...>>
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22.04.2021

“Tuned-In: The Paranormal World of Music” by Grant Cameron and Desta Barnabe

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"Tuned-In: The Paranormal World of Music" by Grant Cameron and Desta Barnabe
"In the spring of 2014, Grant Cameron received an astonishing message from his friend Chris Bledsoe. Chris had an extraordinary encounter with beings he called “the Guardians”. Chris relayed this message to Grant and told him that “the message is in the music”. Grant Cameron was never musically inclined, and rarely showed any interest in music until he heard the song, “After the Goldrush” by Neil Young. The message that Chris relayed to Grant now resonated with him. Grant wondered if the lyrics in that song, were part of the message. He then became very interested in musicians who have had experiences with various unexplained phenomenon. And so, the trip down the rabbit hole began… What...>>
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