First Note:

[Seeger was at one point recorded giving a short description of the folk process and his view of its history. Transcribed by Katherine Macdonald from internet recording.]

"In ancient days, all the men knew the same hunting songs, and all the women knew the same lullaby. Then, when agriculture was invented, then class society developed and you have priesthood and aristocracy that owned the land, and now they could afford to have, for example, music made for them. And this was the beginning of high art. Talented professionals would spend their whole lives creating the most elegant culture they could -- if you want to use that word. The ordinary person, 99 percent of the population probably, could look at this and admire it from afar, but in their daily life they kept on making their own music, doing their own sewing, constructing their own houses and telling their own stories, usually without the benefit of any writing paper.

"Then beginning somewhere in the last thousand years I guess, maybe more or less, cities began to be developed where musicians, for example, could pick up coins in the market place, and this was the beginning of pop culture. Pop culture borrowed from the folk culture in the villages and it borrowed from the fine arts culture in the castle, and still occupies kind of a middle ground, but within the last century pop art is suddenly expanded with the help of tape recording and all the other things. It's taken over the world. So it's hard to say if there's any true folk culture left. At the same time you can see there are elements of the folk process still at work, where people will whistle a tune they've heard, or dance to a tune, or hum it or even sing it, but don't have the benefit of the big orchestra going on with them, and they may change a note here or a word there unconsciously, without quite realizing what they've done . . . and this is my hope. My father, who's an old musicologist, he spent a lifetime trying to analyze the history of music, he said, 'Rather than mourn the loss of ancient gold, let us consider its permutation into another metal, which although it might be baser, might surprise us in the end.'"

Second note:

[A short listing of examples of reclamations outside of fanfiction.]

Sampling: Wired Magazine interviewed the music group Beastie Boys in November 2004, the resulting article being largely a discussion of sampling as an art and as a legality. (http://wired- vig.wired.com/wired/archive/12.11/beastie.html)

Fanart: The LiveJournal community HPArt is an active area with numerous examples of Harry Potter-themed artwork. (http://www.livejournal.com/c ommunity/hpart/)

Photo Manipulation: FARK.com often holds “photoshop contests,” the results of which are often topically poignant and certainly legally questionable. This particular image-intensive example is FARK’s “Odd places for the low-carb label” contest. (http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=879702)

Vidding: Fan author Astolat has a large number of vids that utilize a variety of sources. Of particular interest is her vid of Alanis Morissette’s “Uninvited,” set to the images of Silence of the Lambs. (http://www.intimations.org/vidding/ )

Role-playing or LARPing: The NERO campaigns are “medieval fantasy live action role playing” games. This particular example is that of the NERO Avendale campaign, with accompanying discussion forum, event registration guide, and photo gallery. (http://www.avendale.com/)

Third Note:

[a short annotation of the Dark Angel reclamations listed during the course of the paper]

Northlight delves deeper into the character of Ben and what being raised an X5 (with the death experience) means for the characters of Dark Angel in her story Living In The Dark. (http://silverlake.imjustsayin.net/northlight- livinginthedark.html)

M. Rose's post-ep ("post-episode," ie. a story that takes place directly after an episode and deals largely with the consequences of that episode) vignette (short story, between a page to five pages long) The Blue Lady reflects on faith and hope. (http://darkangelfic.org/daf/Display?BlueLady.Rose)

Gatekeeper's Dealing With It is a post-ep that rewrites the perceived ending of distrust between Max and Logan because: "Logan's reaction when he saw the photos at the end of Polo Loco pissed me off. So I wrote this, straightening the boy out," making the ending an entrance point to a story about trust and love. (http://darkangelfic.org/daf/Display? DealingWithIt.Gatekeeper)

pari106's The First Kiss is an AU ("alternate universe," ie. a story that takes the established events of the narrative and changes them to arrive at a different outcome/narrative) that suggests what might have happened if Ben had been provided with proper medical/psychological assistance to deal with his insanity. (http://darkangelfic.org/daf/Display?FirstKiss. Pari106)

bulletproof's Hunter talks about guilt, fear, what the difference between a monster and a human is, and rather delicately evokes the religious feel of the episode. (http://darkangelfic.org/daf/Display?Hunter.Bulletproof)

The Peanut Butter General's The Meaning of Christmas deals with the Blue Lady in her religious incarnation, with child-Ben learning about Jesus. While largely "fluff" (fanfiction that lacks any deep meaning; often a phrase related to romantic pieces), the story does open up interpretations other authors could make if they wished to build off of this idea. (http://darkangelfic.org/daf/Display? MeaningOfChristmas.General)

Northlight's Tasted Blood, interestingly enough, tries to work out what Ben's life was like, from his escape from Manticore to his death, and posits that he'd been a street child for the majority of that time. Unlike the children who developed the Miami Universe, in this story Ben feels betrayed by his faith in the Blue Lady. (http://www.darkangelfic.org/daf/Display? TastedBlood.Northlight)

The Inimitable Pooh Bah's If Scheherazade is a "slash" story (a story that features a homosexual relationship) that tries to show the slow development of Ben's modus operandi after a series of emotionally (and in one case, physically) abusive relationships. While not having the delicate religious touch of bulletproof's Hunter, it nevertheless develops the madness that provides the frame for the Blue Lady in the original episode. (http://glas sonion.populli.org/archive/5/ifscheherazade.shtml)