{"id":1406,"date":"2021-09-08T22:23:54","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T02:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/?p=1406"},"modified":"2021-09-08T22:23:54","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T02:23:54","slug":"polite-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2021\/09\/08\/polite-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Polite conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today I attended part of a regular seminar series at Uppsala University. An upside of a dire times is that it was on Zoom, so I was able to just drop in. The talk was by Brandon Polite on The Fine Art of Sonic Duplication<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Polite discussed artists remaking their own tracks for licensing reasons, the paradigmatic examples being Def Leppard (who remade a few tracks so as to squeeze their record label for a better deal) and Taylor Swift (who is in the process of remaking her first six albums so as to crush misogyny and master her destiny). These are cases I’ve also been thinking about recently, so it was interesting to hear his take on them. The questions from the Uppsala folks were also top notch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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