...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... ...4 These inputs may be snippets of code, discoveries, prior research, images, genres of work, cultural references, or databases of single nucleotide po... ...my own love story. Even if literary creativity does converge around standard genres, plots, and archetypes, it is assumed that those are in the public... ...hymn, or in a synco- pated gospel version of this hymn, the possibility of a fusion of traditions which would itself become a new tradition—soul. Or p... ...nd turning that idea into the beginnings of its own musical genre. Soul is a fusion of gospel on the one hand and rhythm and blues on the other. From ... ...sthetics, or law? Charles himself came in for considerable criticism for his fusion of gospel intonations and melodic structures with the nightclub so... ...t out that “his own sound,” “his style,” is in reality a fusion of two prior genres—rhythm and blues and gospel. But looking at the actual songs that ...

...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...