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Spring 2013 Music W4420 section 001
MUSIC AND PROPERTY
MUSIC & PROPERTY

Call Number 66829
Day & Time
Location
TR 6:10pm-7:25pm
622 Dodge Hall
Points 3
Approvals Required None
Instructor Aaron A Fox
Type LECTURE
Course Description Prerequisites: Approval of the instructor.         This courses raises the questions 1) What does it mean to "own" music? 1) In what senses can music be conceptualized as "property?" How do divergent understandings of music's status as "property" shape contemporary debates and discourses in the particular areas of disputes over "illegal downloading" of copyrighted music and the "repatriation" of Native American musical recordings as "cultural property?" Several relevant major recent statements will be considered and responses discussed. Case studies from ethnomusicological, anthropological, media studies and legal literatures engage issues of appropriation, the role of new technologies in shifting the terrain of musical ownership will be studied. Hands-on look at the Columbia Center for Ethnomusicology's ongoing projects to repatriate historic recordings of Native American music (currently 'owned' by Columbia University) to the Navajo and Iñupiat tribes.
Web Site CourseWorks
Department Music
Enrollment 25 students as of 12:21AM Saturday, May 18, 2013
Final Exam Day/Time May 14
T 7:10pm-10:00pm
Final Location 622 Dodge Hall
Subject Music
Number W4420
Section 001
Division Interfaculty
Open To Columbia College, Engineering and Applied Science, General Studies, School of Continuing Education, Graduate School of Arts and Science, School of the Arts, International and Public Affairs, Barnard, Engineering and Applied Science: Graduate
Campus Morningside
Section key 20131MUSI4420W001

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