Copyright Consciousness: Musical Creativity and Intellectual Property in Turkey | A Book Discussion
Event description
- Academic events
- Open to the public
Over a light lunch, join us for a discussion of the book, Copyright Consciousness: Musical Creativity and Intellectual Property in Turkey.
Author:
Dave Fossum, ASU School of Music, Dance and Theatre
Discussants:
Güneş Murat Tezcür, ASU School of Politics and Global Studies
and
Serap Erincin, ASU Hugh Downs School of Human Communication
Copyright Consciousness explores the mutual influence of intellectual property law, musical creativity, and state cultural policy in Turkey's vibrant music industry.
Drawing on ethnographic and archival data from the past five decades, this book is among the first in-depth ethnographies of music and the law. Adapting theories of legal consciousness and introducing them into ethnomusicology, it documents how a broad range of actors, from courts to composers, negotiate and constitute an emergent legality in music.
It tracks how these actors make sense of and respond to the music copyright system's purported failures and perceived injustices, often integrating their experiences into larger narratives about Turkish society, the nature and value of musical creativity, and the histories of national genres, especially folk music.
https://www.weslpress.org/9780819501769/copyright-consciousness/