Theft! A History of Music
by James Boyle, Jennifer Jenkins, Keith Aoki
Publisher: Duke University 2017
ISBN/ASIN: 1535543671
Number of pages: 263
Description:
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.
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