June Podcast Club Discussion: Will the Real Musician Please Stand Up

For June, we are listening to a playlist curated by one of our very own members. This month's theme explores music covers, lip-syncing, ghost singing, musical borrowing, and the complicated question of who really owns a performance, a voice, or even an idea. Thanks Maccewill for putting this list together! How It Works: * We often follow the Podcast Brunch Club listening lists covering a different topic each month. Members can also make suggestions for future topics. Be sure to check the monthly Meetup event to see what we're listening to! * Listening lists are composed of episode selections related to the month's theme and are pulled from a variety of shows. And we love to include some recommendations too! * Finishing the recommended listening list is not a requirement to attend. Listen to as many or few of the suggested episodes as you would like. * We will have an unstructured, informal discussion of the selections and the month's theme. This Month's Topic: These episodes trace the surprising journeys of songs, voices, and musical performances as they move between artists, genres, countries, and generations. Along the way, they uncover stories of hidden contributors, disputed authorship, borrowed creativity, fabricated performers, and uncredited voices, revealing how music is often less about individual genius than the messy, collaborative, and sometimes controversial ways culture gets remade. Here's a link to the Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1rpHnIhJIZm1GcNxGiJDnH?si=88e80872f8be4be5 The Playlist - Suggested Episodes: * ***99% Invisible*: “Whomst Among Us Has Let The Dogs Out”* (February 2020, 38 min)* The story of how “Who Let The Dogs Out” ended up stuck in all of our brains goes back decades and spans continents. It tells us something about inspiration, and how creativity spreads, and about whether an idea can ever really belong to…