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	Negativland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Negativland started in Concord, California in 1979 around the core founding members of Lyons and Hosler (who were in high school at the time) and released an eponymous debut in 1980.
		Negativland's Mark Hosler pointed at the irony of U2 infringing copyrights on a massive scale during their Zoo TV tour by broadcasting live satellite images on stage, and getting away with it, while almost simultaneously suing Negativland, who had been doing it for a long time before it ever dawned on U2.
		In 1999 Negativland collaborated with UK anarchist band Chumbawamba to produce the album the ABCs of Anarchism, which is largely based around the writings of Alexander Berkman and cut-up versions of Chumbawamba's hit song "Tubthumping", the theme tune to the children's program Teletubbies and the Sex Pistols' "Anarchy in the UK".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Negativland (1210 words)

	MTV.com - Negativland
		Maintaining Negativland's blend of wit and darker themes, it might have simply remained a cult classic were it not for the appearance of the throbbing, creepy "Christianity Is Stupid" and, a few months after the album's release, a mass murder in Minnesota committed by a teenager against his family.
		Having seen tour plans fall through at around the same time, Negativland decided to distribute a fake press release hinting that the killer had in fact been arguing with his parents over "Christianity Is Stupid," which resulted in a slew of publicity and confusion over what the truth of the situation was.
		Negativland's next formal release in 1997 looked to be another red-flag-to-the-bull effort, though whether out of foolhardiness or calculation is up to the individual to decide.
	www.mtv.com /bands/az/negativland/bio.jhtml (1324 words)

	TrouserPress.com :: Negativland
		Negativland, each copy of which is uniquely and attractively packaged with a different kind of wallpaper, isn't really music and it isn't merely sound effects.
		Since Negativland's real stock in trade is conceptualization, not execution, implicit in the group's bunker ambitions is a grander vision of its potential activist role in pop culture.
		Wielding a hoax press release as its weapon, Negativland implied that the song might have been responsible for inspiring the murder of a Minnesota family, and that was all it took.
	www.trouserpress.com /entry_90s.php?a=negativland (846 words)

	Parallax Associate's Biographies - NEGATIVLAND
		Negativland coined the term "culture jamming" in 1984, and this phrase is now often used to describe the work of many different media artists and activists.
		Negativland might be called a "noise" band because they like interesting noises in their music, or an "idea" band because they often rearrange found sound content in order to make some new and previously unintended point with it.
		Negativland is interested in unusual noises (especially ones that are close at hand), unusual ways to restructure such noises and combine them with their own music, and mass media transmissions which have become sources, and subjects, of much of their work.
	www.parallaxpictures.org /004.07.html (832 words)

	Eye - Negativ effect - 04.28.05
		Fourteen years after the various suits were settled, Negativland remain among the most vocal activists in the fight to amend intellectual property legislation for audio-collage use, yet they remain wary of being pigeonholed by their politics.
		Negativland were invited by Toronto non-profit arts organization New Adventures in Sound Art to open the Deep Wireless festival, an exhibition of radio art running through the end of May at the Drake.
		Negativland are getting comfortable in their role as the elder statesmen of shit-disturbing sound collage, though they acknowledge that their image sometimes obscures their artistic goals.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_04.28.05/music/negativland.html (940 words)

	Negativland: Helter Stupid: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Negativland and David Brom's ax murder of the latter's family is an example of Mr.
		Negativland's college radio chart-topper "Christianity Is Stupid" possibly caused the fateful argument in the Brom household, the band implied.
		Negativland could be rewarded for their bravery,Êbut publicity stunts can only go so far.
	pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/n/negativland/helter-stupid.shtml (587 words)

	sfweekly.com \| News \| Dead Set on Deconstruction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Negativland's sonic collage method was born from an artist's desire to do something radically different within the framework of traditional musical presentation, but predicated on the very real fact that the band had absolutely no means to pay for any sound or musical passage that they appropriated.
		The Negativland story takes a number of hairpin twists and turns from here on out, and any attempt to encapsulate the band's incredibly labyrinthine misfortunes and legal dispositions would be the equivalent of a Reader's Digest version of War and Peace, done with a crayon.
		Always up for a good prank, Negativland released a song called "Christianity Is Stupid" in 1987 and then canceled a subsequent tour after a Minnesota teen reportedly killed his entire family with an ax.
	www.sfweekly.com /issues/2000-05-03/music2.html (552 words)

	Ink 19 :: Negativland: 1 - Clear Channel: 0
		Negativland, known for their media-critiquing music collage and culture jamming hoaxes and pranks, outed Seattle Clear Channel radio station KJR-FM on charges that it played at least 114 different songs from the early to mid-1980's, despite marketing themselves as being a "Just the Greatest Hits of the '60's and '70's" radio station.
		Negativland, known for their media-critiquing music collage and culture jamming hoaxes and pranks, outed KJR-FM on charges that it played at least 114 different songs from the early to mid-1980's, despite marketing themselves as being a "Just the Greatest Hits of the '60's and '70's" radio station.
		Negativland claims their stunt was an obtuse and funny way to draw attention to Clear Channel's much-criticized involvement in the general dumbing-down and homogenization of radio as the company, with the blessings of the FCC, continues to gobble up station after station across the USA.
	www.ink19.com /news/2003/35/345.html (914 words)

	Negativland: No Business - PopMatters Music Review
		Therein lies the dichotomy of Negativland's approach, and therein is all the explanation one should need as to why it's difficult to take even the most serious of their thoughts at face value.
		Negativland makes it abundantly clear what the mission statement was for the album portion of No Business with a disclaimer, found on the CD sleeve: "No elements original to Negativland were used to make these recordings".
		Negativland is not afraid of using so-called sacred cows as sources, and The Beatles' "Because" is the source for two tracks here: "Old is New" and "New is Old", both of which are rather unenjoyable bits of splicing that don't go far past their titles for deeper thoughts.
	popmatters.com /music/reviews/n/negativland-nobusiness.shtml (1468 words)

	Bad Subjects: "I'm really tooth decay": The Paradox of Avant-Garde Resistance in the Case of Negativland's DisPepsi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Before discussing Negativland's impact on the complex relationships through which consumers come to identify "brands," a sketch of Baudrillard's notion of the "brand" will be helpful to get at the process of signification that occurs in the process of brand association.
		It is at the level of this unit of meaning that Negativland breaks the "code." Since there is no dustbin through which to rummage, due to the system of signification in consumer culture undermining all but the esthetic value of the past, Negativland goes to the dumpster and the cutting-room floor.
		Negativland's splicing together of these texts only makes more noticeable the huge chasm that goes unnoticed daily as the news that reports violent acts daily is interrupted by advertisements for chalupas, Jeeps, Luvs, and Viagra.
	bad.eserver.org /issues/2001/56/rich.html (3393 words)

	Fair Use: Negativland's Documentary Hypothesis
		Fair Use is a graphic representation of Negativland's case in particular and the case for the reform of copyright law in general.
		It turns out that Negativland is not as interested in new copyright law as in enforcing the real meaning of existing copyright law.
		Negativland thinks realistic copyright guidelines would recognize their sound collage efforts as legitimate artistic expressions.
	www.deuceofclubs.com /write/fair_use.htm (1298 words)

	Suits, Lawsuits, and Art: Negativland Takes On The Man
		Details of Island's suit against Negativland are recorded in Fair Use, but what eventually happened is that Negativland's label, SST, immediately caved, agreeing to terms with Island, terms that called for the band—not their label—to shoulder all of Island's legal costs.
		Negativland pestered everyone concerned—especially U2 and their management—with so many phone calls, faxes, and letters that "what eventually happened was that it turned into so much bad press for them that they finally did kind of change their minds.
		Negativland's next project—an EP involving a certain worldwide soft drink powerhouse—would suggest that Negativland has emerged from their legal fight undaunted and unrepentant.
	www.deuceofclubs.com /write/negativl.htm (2656 words)

	3.01: The Letter U and the Numeral 2
		Combining, say, car-manufacturers' slogans, sound effects, and a PSA warning against drinking and driving in "We Are Driven" (from their 1993 release, Free), they create a danceable phantasmagoria that disses our culture's obsession with the automobile: simple enough, thought-provoking, and pretty funny.
		At their worst, the members of Negativland are repetitive and smarmy; at their best, they are razor-sharp, microscopically focused, and deadly accurate.
		From the start, Island's argument had been one of economics: Negativland was attempting to profit from U2's popularity, and the group had timed its decoy release to coincide with an upcoming U2 release (previously Joshua Tree had sold more than 6 million copies in the US).
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/3.01/negativland_pr.html (1972 words)

	Negativland - Epitonic.com: Hi Quality Free and Legal MP3 Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		By the late '80s, Negativland's "culture jamming" reached new heights, when the band released a press release claiming that their song "Christianity Is Stupid" had inspired a Minnesota teenager's axe murder of his parents, sparking a media frenzy.
		The aftermath saw U2's label, Island Records, unleash the litigious hounds on Negativland while the Irish superband (who you may recall were beginning to engage in some ironic multimedia antics of their own about that time) sat passively by.
		In the wake of the lawsuit, Negativland put out a pair of books on freedom of speech and intellectual property rights, The Letter U and the Numeral 2 (a quote from Kasem's diatribe) and Fair Use.
	www.epitonic.com /artists/negativland.html (360 words)

	Some Facts on the Negativland/U2 Lawsuit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Negativland's copyrights in the recordings themselves are assigned to Island and Warner-Chappell.
		Negativland and SST must pay $25,000 and half the wholesale proceeds from the copies of the record that were sold and not returned.
		Estimated cost to Negativland is $70,000--more than they have made in their 14 years of existence.
	www.swcp.com /rtoads/printmag/issue3/neg_data.html (295 words)

	Negativland Interview: 10/16/95
		So if somebody wanted to sue Negativland for the audio that we appropriated on the CD in our book, our defense would be a Fair Use defense that's on a CD called Fair Use, that's part of a collage about Fair Use, that's in a book about Fair Use, that's called Fair Use.
		I think that the stuff that's happening to Negativland is sort of an indication, and one of many indications, that we're living in a world that's become so completely owned, controlled, and physically and mentally colonized by corporations and corporate interests.
		Negativland never got together to record, rehearse, and compose songs in any normal rock band fashion anyway.
	www.kuci.org /text/interviews/nland.html (6879 words)

	Getting Down to Business with Negativland
		Negativland is often categorized as a rock band for market convenience and as "media pranksters" by the straight press, who are usually unable to grok what the group actually does.
		I consider Negativland an experimental-art group, especially in light of Negativlandland, an exhibition currently at Gigantic Art Space in New York City, which runs from September 8 to October 22, 2005.
		Obviously email and the Internet play a major role, but Negativland is a group that, in the interview a few months before, prided itself on still working primarily in the analog domain, such as editing and mixing analog tape and using radio-station cart machines.
	emusician.com /em_spotlight/Down_to_Business_Negativland/index.html (5232 words)

	Browse by Artist: NEGATIVLAND
		If you've ever wondered what made Negativland (in) famous, this legally impossible compilation of studio and unreleased live radio and in-concert versions of their 'most sued work' should suitably exhaust your interest forever.
		Negativland's newest conceptual opus moves into a very different direction than the cut-up anti-corporate creations they are more known for.
		"Negativland's 25th anniversary year release is an enhanced CD/book about stealing music, file sharing, the collapse of the music industry and a nice piece of pie.
	www.forcedexposure.com /artists/negativland.html (349 words)

	[Larry's] Negativland [page]
		On their recordings, they appropriate, dissect, juxtapose, scramble, reassemble, and regurgitate sonic material culled from a variety of sources--anything from network and shortwave broadcasts to private phone conversations and family recordings made in the kitchen.
		These are Negativland recordings digitized for your on-line listening pleasure.
		Negativland has granted permission for the recordings to be reproduced.
	l2g.to /negativland (411 words)

	Amazon.com: Escape from Noise: Music: Negativland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Their best selling release ever, it includes such Negativland anthems as 'Christianity Is Stupd', 'Car Bombs', 'Time Zones' and others on this silver platter.
		Negativland are a group of three audio pranksters whose music is quite unlike anything heard before, or since.
		If you've ever heard of Negativland, it's probably either because of the brilliant but ill-begotten (and legally destructive) "U2" single from 1991, or this album, their best selling and easily their most accessible.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00003L9DS?v=glance (1492 words)

	Negativland Statement in Support of Peer-to-Peer File Sharing (Jan. 21, 2002)
		Negativland has been an independent band since 1980.
		Negativland works in musical collage forms involving "found sounds" of all sorts, including other music collaged with our own music.
		We have released over 20 CDs and published a book about our music and the legal issues surrounding it entitled "Fair Use: The Story Of The Letter U and The Numeral 2".
	www.eff.org /IP/P2P/MGM_v_Grokster/20020121_negativland_essay.html (2352 words)

	Foetusized's Guide to Collectable CDs: Negativland - U2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Negativland was eventually able to get permission from all the original parties involved to allow them to rerelease the recording.
		It was a used copy in very good condition, and was quite happy to add this disc to my collection of Negativland CDs, as I was a fan of the band before they became infamous due to this incident.
		The material on the CD has nothing to do with the earlier release (it is a reworked version of a work commissioned for New American Radio in 1990) but the cover is based upon the artwork for the earlier disc, and makes direct comment about the
	foetusized.org /u2.html (694 words)

	Upcoming.org: Negativland at Great American Music Hall (Thursday, October 27, 2005)
		Since 1980, the 4 or 5 Floptops known as Negativland have been creating records, fine art, video, books, radio and live performance using appropriated sound, image and text.
		In doing this kind of cultural opposition and "culture jamming" (a term coined by Negativland in 1984), Negativland have been sued twice for copyright infringement.
		Negativland definitely isn't a "band," though they may look like one when you see their CDs for sale in your local shopping mall.
	upcoming.org /event/26984 (373 words)

	Negativland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In 1991 Negativland released the single "U2," which contains two unauthorized "found sound" parodies of U2's "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For." The single features a 35-second sample of U2's recording, outtakes from Top 40 d.j.
		In 1992, Negativland's magazine-plus-CD The Letter U and the Numeral 2, was also sued out of existence for relating the story of the first lawsuit.
		In 2001, on the tenth anniversary of the first lawsuit, Negativland issued an expanded illegal bootleg CD called "These Guys Are from England and Who Gives a Shit." It has not (yet) been sued out of existence.
	www.illegal-art.org /print/popups/U2.html (178 words)

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