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This book beautifully explores the nuances of the cultural appropriation, misrepresentation, and erasure arising from unauthorized sampling in the music industry, and offers a deep dive into the theory and performance of the sampled non-Western musical traditions. A thoroughly researched, highly informative and engaging book. -- Johnny Farraj, musician and co-author of Inside Arabic Music Sampling Politics is an innovative, thought-provoking, and thoughtful book. It helps us observe the intricacies of border crossing in the world of music as the fissures of contemporary politics. The recognition of the self within the other forms part of this politics, and in so doing allows us the 'interlocking sampling-timelines' so necessary to developing communities of practice. Distinguishing between relationships of music-in-the-making and music-in-the-taking, Franklin draws our attention to the everyday struggles of boundary un/making at the local, national, and global levels. In the contemporary political moment, when we seem more focused on the visual than the auditory, Franklin's book is a political corrective, urging us to listen closely, carefully, and most important of all, politically. I hope it will find a wide readership much beyond the study of politics and international relations. -- Shirin Rai, University of Warwick Designed to provide music edification for an IR scholarly constituency, M. I. Franklin's superb book will serve well beyond that ambition. Extraordinarily knowledgeable about the musical fields it exploresDLtreating sampling, cutting, remixing, re-textualizingDLit makes connections that breach the boundaries of the theoretical thought world within which social science fields have been Aquarantined. -- Michael J. Shapiro, University of Hawai'i, Manoa

This book beautifully explores the nuances of the cultural appropriation, misrepresentation, and erasure arising from unauthorized sampling in the music industry, and offers a deep dive into the theory and performance of the sampled non-Western musical traditions. A thoroughly researched, highly informative and engaging book. * Johnny Farraj, musician and co-author of Inside Arabic Music * Sampling Politics is an innovative, thought-provoking, and thoughtful book. It helps us observe the intricacies of border crossing in the world of music as the fissures of contemporary politics. The recognition of the self within the other forms part of this politics, and in so doing allows us the 'interlocking sampling-timelines' so necessary to developing communities of practice. Distinguishing between relationships of music-in-the-making and music-in-the-taking, Franklin draws our attention to the everyday struggles of boundary un/making at the local, national, and global levels. In the contemporary political moment, when we seem more focused on the visual than the auditory, Franklin's book is a political corrective, urging us to listen closely, carefully, and most important of all, politically. I hope it will find a wide readership much beyond the study of politics and international relations. * Shirin Rai, University of Warwick * Designed to provide music edification for an IR scholarly constituency, M. I. Franklin's superb book will serve well beyond that ambition. Extraordinarily knowledgeable about the musical fields it explores-treating sampling, cutting, remixing, re-textualizing-it makes connections that breach the boundaries of the theoretical thought world within which social science fields have been quarantined. * Michael J. Shapiro, University of Hawai'i, Manoa *

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M.I. Franklin is Professor of Global Media and Politics at Goldsmiths University of London.

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