...a brilliant composer, not only educated me in composition and the history of musical borrowing but co-taught a class on musical borrowing that dramati... ...s, and Carol Rose. Kembrew McLeod and Siva Vaidhyanathan inspired my work on music and sampling. Peter Jaszi was named in my last book as the person w... ...to many of its members. Whitney Brous- sard told me the dirty secrets of the music industry. Daphne Keller—a former student and later a colleague—help... ...s a lowering of copying costs hurt every industry equally. Digital copies of music were a threat to the traditional music business, but digital copies... ...1930s, or the films of the Second World War, or footage on the daily lives of African-Americans during segregation, or the music of the Great Depressio... ...gree with him from quoting his autobiography in dis- cussing his life. If an African-American author wishes to tell the story of Gone With the Wind fr... ...s watching pictures of a flooded New Orleans, seeing pleading citizens—mainly African-American—and a Keystone Cops response by the Federal Emergency Ma... ...e television played certain images over and over again. People—again, mainly African-Americans—were portrayed breaking into stores, pleading from roof... ...ific verbal and musical references, and, for much of the century, cutting the African-American artists out of the profits in the process. There is anoth...

...Our music, our culture, our science, and our economic welfare all depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Do...

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