• Allen Hall Room 221
• April 14, 2009
• 7pm

Kembrew McLeod will be screening/premiering his new film.

First 50 attendees get a free dj food stamp mixtape, and Kembrew will do some Q&A after the film’s showing.

The film examines the creative and commercial value of musical sampling, including the related debates over artistic expression, copyright law, and (of course) money. This film features some of today’s most famed hip hop producers and sound appropriation artists, lawyers and cultural critics, as well as those who have been sampled. For instance, the most sampled man in the world, Clyde Stubblefield, the drummer for the James Brown Band, talks about how he hasn’t gotten a dime from any of the licenses paid to Mr. Brown, his estate, and the record labels.

I am asking that you, as faculty and GTFs, please attend this film, pass this email along to other people in other departments, as well as encourage your undergraduate students to attend. Further, if you’re feeling really excited, I also encourage you to show the trailer to your class and maybe offer some early term extra credit for students’ attendance. If you want, I am down to come into any class explain the event and the content/context of this film. If you want to help me promote this, let me know.

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