Who Owns the Music No One Preserved?
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AJ and Antonio dig into who really owns African music that Western labels and collectors traveled in to digitize and distribute — walking through Analog Africa in Benin, the Éthiopiques series, and PMG in Nigeria — then argue out what "fair" even means when the preservation is the only reason the catalog has value at all. Plus Snoop's biopic through Death Row Pictures, and Tyla's APOP.
0:00 – When did you last buy a record?
1:00 – The $10 Marvin Gaye record that started it
2:10 – Analog Africa: hiring a cop to find artists and pay them
3:20 –…
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