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Theft! : a History of Music by Keith Aoki; James Boyle; Jennifer Jenkins, (Attorney); Ian Akin; Brian Garvey; Balfour Smith; Duke University. Center for the Study of the Public Domain is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Theft! : a History of Music about?

Theft: A History of Music This comic lays out 2000 years of musical history. A neglected part of musical history. Again and again there have been attempts to police music; to restrict borrowing and cultural cross-fertilization. But music builds on itself. To those who think that mash-ups and sampling started with YouTube or the DJs turntables, it might be shocking to find that musicians have been borrowing extensively borrowing from each other since music began. Then why try to stop that process? The reasons varied. Philosophy, religion, politics, race again and again, race and law. And because music affects us so deeply, those struggles were passionate ones. They still are. The history in this book runs from Plato to Blurred Lines and beyond. You will read about the Holy Roman Empires attempts to standardize religious music using the first great musical technology (notation) and the inevitable backfire of that attempt. You will read about troubadours and church composers, swapping tunes (and remarkably profane lyrics), changing both religion and music in the process. You will see diatribes against jazz for corrupting musical culture, against rock and roll for breaching the col

Who reads Theft! : a History of Music?

Author

Keith Aoki; James Boyle; Jennifer Jenkins, (Attorney); Ian Akin; Brian Garvey; Balfour Smith; Duke University. Center for the Study of the Public Domain

Publisher

Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain, Duke Law School

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781535543675

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Law, Comics, Fiction

Rating

3.78 / 5 (20 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14