*Apologies should documents automatically download to your computer upon opening

"In times as dire as ours, everything matters more than art. Yet, in such times, art matters more than ever."
--Roberta Smith, 7/22/2006



Essays

Uses of WWI Imagery in the Late 60s Pop Music of the Zombies and the Royal Guardsmen

Brian Wilson, Van Dyke Parks, and the Beach Boys' Smile: Cubist Aesthetics, Modular Democracy, and the Writerliness of the Unreleased Masterpiece

From "Romantic Gospel" to "Adequate Response": Trading Essentialism for Audience Empowerment in Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass and the Beach Boys' Smile

The Issue of Intellectual Property in Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 and Don DeLillo's Great Jones Street

The Postmodern Disposition Toward Originality in Live Performance v. Recorded Text

Faceless in the Crowd: The Dangers of Lost Individuality through Group Designation in John Sayles' Hombres Armados and Khushwant Singh's Train to Pakistan

Misc

Some Musicians' Views on Intellectual Property and Illegal Music Downloading
(this is research I've gathered for my own interests, as well as for a class writing project I teach on this topic.)

D.H. Statement on Copyright/Intellectual Property

"Why Art Should Be Free," an essay by Jon Ippolito

Rock 'n' Roll Novels