Kurt Andersen and the writer and musician Greg Tate talk about the creative drive to take other people’s work. Tate plays some of his favorite moments in pop music in which white and black artists steal from each other. And we hear how the great actress Uta Hagen experienced identity theft onstage. Plus, the rock band Wilco drops by the studio.
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