[Harp-L] Re: Plagiarism

[Bobbie Giordano <bogio@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

URL from George Brooks:
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/02/0081387

Thanks, George, for a wonderful link.  The author encapsulates much 
of this recent onlist discussion exquisitely, in particular...

"Blues and jazz musicians have long been enabled by a kind of "open 
source" culture, in which pre-existing melodic fragments and larger 
musical frameworks are freely reworked. ... Today an endless, 
gloriously impure, and fundamentally social process generates 
countless hours of music."

"Open Source" music ... Blues and Jazz, obviously.  Music and Art in 
general.  Makes abundant sense for me.

Bobbie

P.S.  Hi, folks.  Major computer and financial woes since 
April.  Glad to be back... hope to make it to SPAH.