{"id":104,"date":"2009-03-15T19:57:12","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T19:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp\/?p=104"},"modified":"2009-03-15T19:57:12","modified_gmt":"2009-03-15T19:57:12","slug":"blogger_book_club_shelf_empowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2009\/03\/blogger_book_club_shelf_empowe\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogger Book Club: Shelf Empowerment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some books just insist that you take the topic beyond the page, and so this week I&#8217;m super excited to inaugurate Blogger Book Club here at Mind the Gap. First off the shelf for discussion is the sure-to-stir-debate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Remix-Making-Commerce-Thrive-Economy\/dp\/1594201722\"><em>Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy<\/em><\/a> by Lawrence Lessig. <\/p>\n<p>Once upon a time I heard the name Lawrence Lessig mentioned during a panel at a publishing conference, and a room full of adults actually <i>hissed<\/i> in response. Who was this beast? As it turned out, he was a man with big (and, to some, incendiary) ideas&#8211;most of which had reducing the legal reach of copyright at their core. When I saw him on The Colbert Report a couple months back, it was clear he was still rocking boats.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><style type=\"text\/css\">.cc_box a:hover .cc_home{background:url('http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/comedycentral\/video\/assets\/syndicated-logo-over.png') !important;}.cc_links a{color:#b9b9b9;text-decoration:none;}.cc_show a{color:#707070;text-decoration:none;}.cc_title a{color:#868686;text-decoration:none;}.cc_links a:hover{color:#67bee2;text-decoration:underline;}<\/style>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"cc_box\" style=\"position: relative;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"display: inline; float: left; width: 60px; height: 31px;\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"cc_home\" style=\"border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(207, 207, 207); border-width: 1px 0px 0px 1px; background: transparent url(http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/comedycentral\/video\/assets\/syndicated-logo-out.png) repeat scroll 0% 0%; float: left; width: 60px; height: 31px; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;\"><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(207, 207, 207); border-width: 1px 1px 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; float: left; width: 299px; height: 31px; color: rgb(112, 112, 112); position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"cc_show\" style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; background-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); padding-left: 3px; height: 14px; padding-top: 2px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Colbert Report<\/a><span style=\"position: absolute; top: 2px; right: 3px;\">Mon &#8211; Thurs 11:30pm \/ 10:30c<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"cc_title\" style=\"padding: 1px 3px 3px; overflow: hidden; font-size: 11px; color: rgb(134, 134, 134); background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); line-height: 14px; height: 21px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/the-colbert-report-videos\/215454\/january-08-2009\/lawrence-lessig\" target=\"_blank\">Lawrence Lessig<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><embed style=\"float: left; clear: left;\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:215454\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"window\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"autoPlay=false\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allownetworking=\"all\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" height=\"301\" width=\"360\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>If terms like &#8220;intellectual property protection&#8221; and &#8220;copyright reform&#8221; raise your pulse rate, come take a seat on our virtual couch.  If you&#8217;d like a little background before we get started, you can give the book&#8217;s contents a skim <a href=\"http:\/\/remix.lessig.org\/book.php\">here<\/a>, and there&#8217;s a quick capsule summary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/bn-review\/note.asp?NOTE=19717592\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;m no Oprah, but I am thrilled to be able to say that the following awesome people overlooked that part and agreed to join the club for this freshman outing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/automaticheartbreak.com\/\"><b>Corey Dargel<\/b><\/a> is a Texas-born, Brooklyn-based composer, writer, and singer.  Recent projects include the album <a href=\"http:\/\/otherpeopleslovesongs.com\/\"><i>Other People&#8217;s Love Songs<\/i><\/a> and the music-theater piece <a href=\"http:\/\/removableparts.com\/\"><i>Removable Parts<\/i><\/a>.  Corey blogs at <a href=\"http:\/\/13neardeathexperiences.com\/\">13neardeathexperiences.com<\/a> about the creation of his new art-pop song cycle commissioned by the International Contemporary Ensemble.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deceptively-simple.com\/\"><b>Marc Geelhoed<\/b><\/a> manages the Grammy-winning in-house record label of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, CSO Resound. He was the first classical critic for <i>Time Out Chicago<\/i>, where he wrote from 2005 to 2008, and has contributed to <i>Slate<\/i>, the <i>Financial Times<\/i>, and the <i>New Statesman<\/i>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Composer and pianist <b>Matthew Guerrieri<\/b>&#8216;s writing is always found at the blog <a href=\"http:\/\/sohothedog.blogspot.com\/\">Soho the Dog<\/a>, frequently found in the <i>Boston Globe<\/i>, and occasionally spotted in <i>NewMusicBox<\/i>, <i>Slate<\/i>, and <i>Playbill<\/i>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Lisa Hirsch<\/b> lives in Oakland, CA, where she&#8217;s a technical writer by day and a music reviewer, blogger, and chorister by night. Read more of her writing at <a href=\"http:\/\/irontongue.blogspot.com\/\">Iron Tongue of Midnight<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Saxophonist <b>Brian Sacawa<\/b> is the executive director of <a href=\"http:\/\/mobtownmodern.com\/\">Mobtown Modern<\/a>, a new music series presented by the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore. He is also the co-founder of the duo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hybridgrooveproject.com\/\">Hybrid Groove Project<\/a>, author of the blog <a href=\"http:\/\/briansacawa.com\/blog\/\">Sounds Like Now<\/a>, and a fierce bicycle racer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Composer <b>Alex Shapiro<\/b> aligns note after note with the hope that a few of them might actually sound good next to each other. Alex&#8217;s acoustic and electroacoustic works are performed and broadcast weekly across the U.S. and internationally, and can be found on almost twenty commercially released recordings. A former longtime Los Angeles denizen, she was born and raised in Manhattan and now lives on acreage closely supervised by the deer and foxes of Washington state&#8217;s San Juan Island. Alex procrastinates on her next piece by updating her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/\">website<\/a> and her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notesfromthekelp.com\/\">blog<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Steve Smith<\/b> is a man out about town <a href=\"http:\/\/nightafternight.blogs.com\/\">Night After Night<\/a>. He is also the music editor for <i>Time Out New York<\/i>, a weekly lifestyle, arts and entertainment magazine in New York City, as well as a regular contributor to <i>The New York Times<\/i>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Marc Weidenbaum<\/b> writes daily at <a href=\"http:\/\/disquiet.com\/\">Disquiet.com<\/a> (since 1996) about ambient\/electronic music and sound art. He&#8217;s been published in <i>Nature<\/i>, <i>NewMusicBox<\/i>, <i>Down Beat<\/i>, and <i>Pulse!<\/i> (where he was an editor for seven years, and edited the comics for a decade), as well as in  the manga magazine <i>Shonen Jump<\/i> (where he was an editor for five years), among other places. In April he&#8217;ll have an audio piece in an exhibit at the Crewest Gallery in Los Angeles. He lives in San Francisco&#8217;s Richmond District.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some books just insist that you take the topic beyond the page, and so this week I&#8217;m super excited to inaugurate Blogger Book Club here at Mind the Gap. First off the shelf for discussion is the sure-to-stir-debate Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy by Lawrence Lessig. 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