Sonic Outlaws (1995)

Within days of the release of Negativlands clever parody of U2 and Casey Kasem recording industry giant Island Records descended upon the band with a battery of lawyers intent on erasing the piece from the history of rock music Craig Tribulation 99 Baldwin follows this and other intellectual property controversies across the contemporary arts scene Playful and ironic his cutandpaste collageessay surveys the prospects for an electronic folk culture in the midst of an increasingly commodified corporate media landscape