Marjorie Perloff's Unoriginal Genius

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When I initially heard the term “remixing,” the initial thought that came to mind was contemporary music. With this particular framework in mind, it was easy to wrap my mind around Wayne Marshall’s article, Giving up Hip-Hop’s Firstborn: A Quest for the Real after the Death of Sampling. I agreed that ?uests’s music-making practices were influenced by “engineering ‘genius,’ creativity, and alchemy required to produce such desired timbres” (Marshall 886). However, not until I read Marjorie Perloff’s introduction to her book, Unoriginal Genius: Poetry and Other Means in the New Century, did I begin to apply these same concepts to realms outside of music. “Originality,” Perloff states, “refers to the ‘real’ work as opposed to a copy or simulation”