The Ethics of Open Source Popular Music: Girl Talk and Aesthetic Experiences in a Postmodern Age

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Abstract

This analysis explores the ethical questions that arise when aesthetics are appropriated and transferred into digital forms, bridging the material and the digital. I examine the work of the sampling artist Girl Talk, suggesting that the music of Girl Talk may be conceptualized as a counternarrative to the metanarratives of Form, Creation, and Authority. However, it hinders our potential to have an aesthetic experience thereby depriving us of the opportunity to deepen our moral perceptions.

Author

• Scott Church, Univ of Nebraska, Lincoln