Rosen addresses thieves...

Jody Rosen has a great piece out today called "Dude, you stole my article" about a small-town weekly paper that plagerized content from a number of on-line sources for basically their entire editorial body. He avoids meta-commentary on the nature of online pastiche and instead goes for online justice, as the editor refused to engage him in conversation about the problem. The title is some bit of irony then, since the "you" in question uncertain and the article is seeking him or her out. The publication took down its website - so someone, maybe even you, got the message.

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2012 Fundraising Campaign

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Past readings for the 2011 Best Music Writing Book

December 6, powerHouse Arena (NYC)
December 8, Housing Works Cafe (NYC)
January 10, Politics and Prose (DC)

BMW 2011

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Praise for the BMW Series

"Da Capo's annual Best Music Writing series is as close as rock scribes get to the Oscars."—Village Voice, 2010

"Essential, as usual."—Booklist, 2009

"The Best Music Writing series from Da Capo Press has been putting out consistently impressive collections of each year’s most important music writing for the last decade, and this year’s special 10th anniversary edition is no exception."—PopMatters, 2009
“The stories behind the music can be as inspiring as the music itself…
will likely inspire the reader to seek out a lot of new music.”—New York Press

“…one of the few regular publications to be dependably open to every type of music imaginable…Whether an authoritative aggregation or merely a starting point,
it’s a shame it’s only an annual.”—Relix

“In all it’s quite a celebration of the vast enterprise known as music.”—Signal to Noise

More praise for BMW

“Our favorite year-end read.”—Cleveland Scene

“Terrorism, sexual misconduct, and wholesome nostalgia, treated with a discernible backbeat and sprightly writing make for an excellent anthology.” ––Booklist

“the book finally reflects the current state of not just music journalism but music listening… These essays encapsulate a chilly, malefic year for music indeed.” —The Stranger

“Da Capo’s Best Music Writing 2006’s essays create a confrontational, challenging, and varied portrait of music criticism that highlights a visceral reaction to music over academic posturing…”—VenusZine

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