Autore: McLeod Kembrew McLeod

In this collection of essays, leading academics, critics, and artists historicize collage and appropriation tactics that cut across diverse media and genres. They take up issues of appropriation in t …

How did the Depression-era folk-song collector Alan Lomax end up with a songwriting credit on Jay-Z’s song "Takeover"? Why doesn’t Clyde Stubblefield, the primary drummer on James Brown rec …

Blondie’s Parallel Lines mixed punk, disco and radio-friendly FM rock with nostalgic influences from 1960s pop and girl group hits. This 1978 album kept one foot planted firmly in the past while rema …

Blondie’s Parallel Lines mixed punk, disco and radio-friendly FM rock with nostalgic influences from 1960s pop and girl group hits. This 1978 album kept one foot planted firmly in the past while rema …

"Mc Leod’s deft and generous book tells of a constellation of avant-garde squatters, divas, and dissidents who reinvented the world." -Jonathan Lethem, New York Times-bestselling author of …