Unpacking the gift
Negotiating Property and Custody in Archival Hardcore Blogs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4304712 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Josh Heuman (Texas A&M University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 177-195 |
| Publication date | 2013-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Popular Music (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0261-1430 • E-ISSN: 1474-0095 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s026114301300010x |
| OpenAlex | W2100153544 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 19 |
How is music appropriated and recirculated on the web, across different claims to authority over its movement? Complicating broad accounts of online 'piracy' or 'sharing', this paper explores rules of appropriation and recirculation in the field of archival hardcore blogging, in close readings of blogs that try to reconstruct a system of regulating principles and regulated practices. In relations among themselves, bloggers claim (and quarrel over) a non-proprietary 'custodial' authority over the music they post, which supports a range of privileges from attribution to exclusivity. Relations between bloggers and property-holders reveal intricate entanglements of different forms of authority (rather than straightforward oppositions between discrete logics of gift and commodity) - in which bands and labels might appeal to subcultural credibility in the same breath as legal copyright. While drawing on concepts of norm and gift that emphasise and valorise the sociality of appropriation, this paper insists on the ambivalence and contestation across different practices of appropriation, and between practices of appropriation and property - recovering an intricate interrelation among the legal, economic and social lives of musical works
Ambivalence · Appeal · Appropriation · Ascription · Boilerplate text · Epistemology · Law and economics · Negotiation · Political science · Possession (linguistics · Property (philosophy · Reciprocity (cultural anthropology · Salience (neuroscience · Social science · Sociology · Unpacking · Copyright and Intellectual Property · Digital Games and Media · Law · Music History and Culture · Psychology · Social Psychology
The field of cultural production
Hive-Sourcing Is the New Out-Sourcing
Sexing the Groove
Introduction
Music for Nothing Or, I Want My Mp3
Out of Sight and Out of Mind
Ad hoc archivists
The Borrowed View
The Intangibility of Music in the Internet Age
The social organization of audio piracy on the Internet
The archaeology of knowledge
Fan Cultures
The magic that can set you free
Scary Monsters? Software Formats, Peer-to-Peer Networks, and the Spectre of the Gift
For and against the record industry
Language, Counter-Memory, Practice
Music That Moves
Managing creativity
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |