Theft! : a history of music
- Title
- Theft! : a history of music / initial sketches Keith Aoki ; research, writing and graphic design James Boyle & Jennifer Jenkins ; art, illustration and inking Ian Akin & Brian Garvey ; lettering, coloring, digital publishing Balfour Smith .
- Published by
- [Durham, North Carolina] : Center for the Study of the Public Domain, Duke Law School, [2017]
- ©2017
- Author
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- Additional authors
- Description
- 259 pages : chiefly illustrations; 28 cm
- Summary
- "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 DJ's 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 again, race--and the law. An 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 Empire's attempts to standardize religious music using the first great musical technology (notation) and the inevitable backfire of that attempt. You will read about the 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 color-line. You will learn about the lawsuits that, surprisingly, shaped rap. You will read the story of some music's iconoclasts--from Handel and Beethoven to Robert Johnson, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Ray Charles, the British Invasion and Public Enemy. To understand this history fully, one has to roam wider still--into musical technologies from notation to the sample deck, aesthetics, the incentive systems that got musicians paid, and law's 250-year struggle to assimilate music, without destroying it in the process. This is that story. It is assuredly not the only history of music. But it is definitely a part--a fascinating part--of that history. We hope you like it."--Back cover.
- Alternative title
- Tales from the public domain
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Graphic novels.
- Comics (Graphic works)
- History.
- Call number
- JMF 17-71
- Note
- "A tale of law and music that leads through the gates of time!"
- "Dedicated to Keith Aoki 1955-2011"--Front flyleaf.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-259).
- Source of description (note)
- Title from cover.
- Author
- Aoki, Keith, 1955-2011, artist, honoree.
- Title
- Theft! : a history of music / initial sketches Keith Aoki ; research, writing and graphic design James Boyle & Jennifer Jenkins ; art, illustration and inking Ian Akin & Brian Garvey ; lettering, coloring, digital publishing Balfour Smith .
- Publisher
- [Durham, North Carolina] : Center for the Study of the Public Domain, Duke Law School, [2017]
- Copyright date
- ©2017
- Type of content
- still image
- text
- Type of medium
- unmediated
- Type of carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-259).
- Connect to:
- Added author
- Boyle, James, 1959- author.
- Jenkins, Jennifer (Attorney), author.
- Akin, Ian, illustrator.
- Garvey, Brian, 1941- illustrator.
- Smith, Balfour, letterer.
- Duke University. Center for the Study of the Public Domain, publisher.
- ISBN
- 9781535543675
- 1535543671
- Research call number
- JMF 17-71