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From the Ted Talk by Kirby Ferguson: Embrace the remix

Unscramble the Blue Letters


We're going to begin in 1964. Bob Dylan is 23 yaers old, and his career is just reaching its pinnacle. He's been christened the voice of a geenioatrn, and he's churning out classic sgons at a sglinemey impossible rate, but there's a slaml minority of dissenters, and they cailm that Bob Dylan is stealing other people's songs.

2004. Brian Burton, aka Danger Mouse, tekas the Beatles' "White Album," combines it with Jay-Z's "The Black Album" to create "The Grey Album." "The Grey Album" becomes an immediate sensation online, and the Beatles' record company sends out countless cease-and-desist letters for "unfair competition and dilution of our valuable property."

Open Cloze


We're going to begin in 1964. Bob Dylan is 23 _____ old, and his career is just reaching its pinnacle. He's been christened the voice of a __________, and he's churning out classic _____ at a _________ impossible rate, but there's a _____ minority of dissenters, and they _____ that Bob Dylan is stealing other people's songs.

2004. Brian Burton, aka Danger Mouse, _____ the Beatles' "White Album," combines it with Jay-Z's "The Black Album" to create "The Grey Album." "The Grey Album" becomes an immediate sensation online, and the Beatles' record company sends out countless cease-and-desist letters for "unfair competition and dilution of our valuable property."

Solution


  1. generation
  2. claim
  3. years
  4. songs
  5. takes
  6. small
  7. seemingly

Original Text


We're going to begin in 1964. Bob Dylan is 23 years old, and his career is just reaching its pinnacle. He's been christened the voice of a generation, and he's churning out classic songs at a seemingly impossible rate, but there's a small minority of dissenters, and they claim that Bob Dylan is stealing other people's songs.

2004. Brian Burton, aka Danger Mouse, takes the Beatles' "White Album," combines it with Jay-Z's "The Black Album" to create "The Grey Album." "The Grey Album" becomes an immediate sensation online, and the Beatles' record company sends out countless cease-and-desist letters for "unfair competition and dilution of our valuable property."

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
bob dylan 3
early songs 2
traditional folk 2
folk tune 2
creative works 2
great artists 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
traditional folk tune 2

Important Words


  1. aka
  2. album
  3. black
  4. bob
  5. brian
  6. burton
  7. career
  8. christened
  9. churning
  10. claim
  11. classic
  12. combines
  13. company
  14. competition
  15. countless
  16. create
  17. danger
  18. dilution
  19. dissenters
  20. dylan
  21. generation
  22. grey
  23. impossible
  24. letters
  25. minority
  26. mouse
  27. online
  28. pinnacle
  29. property
  30. rate
  31. reaching
  32. record
  33. seemingly
  34. sends
  35. sensation
  36. small
  37. songs
  38. stealing
  39. takes
  40. valuable
  41. voice
  42. years