Rude Citizenship: Jamaican Popular Music, Copyright and the Reverberations of Colonial Power
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Jamaican Popular Music, Copyright, and the Reverberations of Colonial Power delves into the intersection of law, technology, and music creation to offer a critical examination of the lingering effects of colonially derived laws -in this case, copyright -that work in opposition to modes of music-making indigenous to Jamaican culture and identity.Central to this book is the idea of "the original" -a concept that within copyright law signals notions of "originality" and is linked to authorship.In the opening paragraphs of the book, Mann relays a story in which Jamaican producer, Skatta, criticizes vocalist Tanto Blacks for using a backing track of his own creation, stating "I wish he use a more original riddim, not one that they make themselves.… Use one more established riddim that been tested!"(p. 1).Unpacking Skatta's use of this term "original", Mann notes how it departs from colonial notions of original (and, by extension, legalities of authorship, and copyright), and points instead to reuse as a normative creative practice in Jamaican musical culture.Original, Mann states,
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.017 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".