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Copyright Consciousness: Musical Creativity and Intellectual Property in Turkey
How copyright shapes the nature, value, and meaning of musical creativity

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.

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Copyright Consciousness: Musical Creativity and Intellectual Property in Turkey
How copyright shapes the nature, value, and meaning of musical creativity

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.

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Copyright Consciousness: Musical Creativity and Intellectual Property in Turkey

Copyright Consciousness: Musical Creativity and Intellectual Property in Turkey

by Dave Fossum
Copyright Consciousness: Musical Creativity and Intellectual Property in Turkey

Copyright Consciousness: Musical Creativity and Intellectual Property in Turkey

by Dave Fossum

Overview

How copyright shapes the nature, value, and meaning of musical creativity

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780819501769
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publication date: 06/03/2025
Series: Music / Culture
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

DAVE FOSSUM is an assistant professor in the School of Music, Dance, and Theatre at Arizona State University. His writing has been published in Ethnomusicology, Asian Music, and Ethnomusicology Forum.

Table of Contents

Author's Note

Acknowledgements

Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Copyright Reform and Cultural Modernization

2. Constituting Legality in the Music Sector

3. Essentializing Creativity: Authorship and Anonymity

4. Copyright and Traditionalism in State Broadcasting

5. When Copyright Meets Folk Music

6. Collectors, Copyright, "Kiziroğlu": Formal Law and Everyday Legality

Conclusion

Appendix

Notes

Index

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