This book marks the tenth anniversary of The Grey Album. The online release and circulation of what Danger Mouse called his art project was an unexpected watershed in the turn-of-the-century brawls over digital creative practice. The albums suppression inspired widespread digital civil disobedience and brought a series of contests and conflicts over creative autonomy in the online world to mainstream awareness. The Grey Album highlighted; by its very form; the profound changes wrought by the new technology and represented the struggle over the tectonic shifts in the production; distribution and consumption of music. But this is not why it matters. The Grey Album matters because it is more than just a clever; if legally ambiguous; amalgam. It is an important and compelling case study about the status of the album as a cultural form in an era when the album appears to be losing its coherence and power. Perhaps most importantly; The Grey Album matters because it changes how we think about the traditions of musical practice of which it is a part. Danger Mouse created a broad; inventive commentary on forms of musical creativity that have defined all kinds of music for centuries: borrowing; appropriation; homage; derivation; allusion and quotation. The struggle over this album wasnt just about who gets to use new technology and how. The battle over The Grey Album struck at the heart of the very legitimacy of a long recognised and valued form of musical expression: the interpretation of the work of one artist by another.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Whos got more game than Flavor Flav?By GrubgoatI was always a Public Enemy fan as a teenager. This whole book shocked the hell out of me! Basically Flav is saying that he was a crack-head long before; during; and long after P.E.s peak. This is the band that sung "Night of the Living Base Heads"! I guess Chuck was really talking about Flav that whole time... (A guy at work said to me; "We all knew - he was skinny and always acting all messed up; of *course* that guy was on crack!!" Shows what I know...)But; I also read this book in about 3 hours; which is suspiciously fast. He tells quick little vignettes of touring with Tupac and Slick Rick; but thats all you get; little quickies; and hes out. The entire book is this way. Im not a fan of reality tv; so I never watched any of Flavs shows. But; a reality series based on Flav looking for love; when it turns out he already HAD a true love somewhere else...? Im sensing a pattern here.This man is *ALWAYS* running game. Thats the bottom line. And hes likable for that reason; but this book is kind of like watching a Jerry Springer kind of show - those people always start out affable and reasonable; but talk to them for 20 minutes; and the story starts morphing; and new things are added; and suddenly theyre asking to borrow money; etc.Not to hate on Mr. Flav. But hes running game 24/7; thats how it is; and this book is evidence. Its NOT satisfying; its not fullfilling; its like a reality TV show; or a Star magazine; you get shocks and oohs and ahhhs; but then its over and youre just as empty as when it started.What is IS though; is honest. I hope he does another one someday; with the same honesty; but more depth.Or; maybe theres not any more depth to Flavor Flav? I personally doubt that...0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Good stories; but Flav seems a bit obliviousBy Mitchell KingThe good: always interesting and entertaining. The bad: Flav tends to play the victim card when facing some of the consequences of his own bad choices. Regardless; its mostly a story of redemption and on that front it delivers. Fun read. Dudes got some stories youve gotta read to believe.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. The best book Ive read in yearsBy Matthew SedraThe book flavor flav: the icon the memoir is a great book for numerous reasons like its the true story of flavs life as well as letting ever person that reads it into his life from childhood until now the book does kind of jump around and back and forth but there is parts of the book where I can actually hear flav I read the first chapter the night I got the book Im now writing this review the following night and I have almost completed the entire book (which I will have done by the end of the night) its 100% a must read
