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  • From: tom poe <tompoe AT amihost.com>
  • To: Open Studios <Open_Studios AT yahoogroups.com>
  • Cc: Glenn Otis Brown <glenn AT creativecommons.org>, Lawrence Lessig <lessig AT pobox.com>, Community Studios <community_studios AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Community_studios] [Fwd: "chapbook"&contest announced]
  • Date: 05 Mar 2005 01:59:36 -0800

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> From: dave AT davesoroka.com
> To: tompoe AT amihost.com
> Subject: "chapbook"&contest announced
> Date: 05 Mar 2005 08:53:36 -0800
>
> I've recieved a couple of queries from folks asking me what a chapbook is.
> Sorry about that. A chapbook is a small booklet of tales or ballads
> formerly sold on the street by "chapmen", or peddlers. The word "chap"
> comes from the Old English "ceap" meaning trade, and is also the root of
> the word "cheap".
>
> I plan to produce chapbooks using my computer and printer and a stapler
> here at home. These books will probably sell for $5.
>
> and now, A CONTEST:
>
> In an interview that came out on September 11th, 2001 Bob Dylan (one of my
> main influences, and in my opinion one of the greatest songwriters who ever
> lived) told the Vancouver Province newspaper:
>
> "People who came after me, I don't feel, were ever my peers or
> contemporaries, because they didn't really have any standing in traditional
> music. They didn't play folk songs. They heard me and thought, 'Oh, this
> guy writes his own songs, I can do that.' They can, of course, but those
> songs don't have any resonance."
>
> I came after Bob, so he's talking about me, saying Dave Soroka's songs
> don't have any resonance, and Dave Soroka never wrote a folk song.
>
> I wrote a song in response to Bob Dylan's "resonance" comment. It's called
> 'Just The Way The Game Is Played'. I have asked my webmaster, the
> illustrious Dango, to put up a link on my homepage at www.davesoroka.com
> where you-all can click and listen to the song. Now, how about you listen
> to that song and we could have a contest, a contest where everyone's a
> winner: you-all go ahead and write another verse for the song and email it
> to me. I'll include EVERY VERSE I RECIEVE on a live recording later this
> year, with a credit to each writer.
>
> If you DeeJays feel like including your listeners in this contest, well
> that'd be just grand. Go ahead and spin the song on the air and invite
> people to email me their own verses at dave AT davesoroka.com. I'll run the
> contest right through the Summer. Then I'll set up a show at the Grand
> Forks Art Gallery for some time in the Fall and that'll be the night I
> record the song, with all the new verses.
>
> The song already times in at over six minutes. Depending on how many new
> verses you-all send me, it could become the longest song in history.
>
> AFTER THE SHOW I intend to give the song freely to the world. I will give
> up my copyrights to the song, cancel the registration of the song with my
> Performing Rights Organisation here in Canada, and consign the song to the
> public domain (the realm of creative material unfettered by copyright law)
> using the form provided by Creative Commons
> (http://www.davesoroka.com/newsletter/MailBot/redirect.cfm?MessageID=182&ListID=43&Link=creativecommons.org/).
> Thereafter anyone, anywhere, at any time will be allowed to perform or
> otherwise use the song, in whole or in part, in any way they damn well feel
> like.
>
> If I couldn't give the song resonance, maybe you can. If it wasn't already
> a folk song, maybe you can turn it into one.
>
> You can also go to this page on my site:
> http://www.davesoroka.com/newsletter/MailBot/redirect.cfm?MessageID=182&ListID=43&Link=www.davesoroka.com/new_music.cfm
> and hear the song as it was recorded with the Redwine Purgatory Chorus at
> the Cherryville Festival Of The Arts in August 2003.
>
> start writin'
>
> yer everlovin'...
>
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