Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: Music genres, borrowing and copyright. Defining music genres : critical issues with music taxonomies / Franco Fabbri -- A brief history and typology of musical borrowing and reworking / J Peter Burkholder -- Litigating musical universals and particulars : copyright law's ontological struggle with music borrowing / Chen Wei Zhu -- We can work it out : methods in forensic musicology / Joe Bennett -- Forensic musicology in action : a personal perspective / Guy Protheroe -- Borrowing from traditional culture : ownership and commodification of traditional music from a cultural custodianship perspective / Anthony CK Kakooza -- Part II: Analysing music genres and their relationship with copyright. Section A: General. Pop and the musical unconscious / Jose Bellido -- 'Do the right thing' or 'fight the power' : hip-hop music, sampling and copyright law / Joyce Lee and Marc Mimler -- Understanding the creative processes, musical borrowing and copyright protection of the electronic dance music industry / Nicola Lucchi -- How jazz persists at the periphery of copyright / Katherine M Leo -- Confronting an extractive raciliased genre system : black lives matter, royalty recovery and musical reparations / Olufunmilayo B Arewa and Matt Stahl -- 'Not like pyrates' : borrowing, copyright and creativity in the eighteenth century / Ann van Allen-Russell -- Section B: Americas. Remix, reuse and reggae : creativity and copyright in Jamaican music / Enrico Bonadio and Bryan Khan -- Rhythm and melody sans humanité : copyright and the development of calypso music / Bryan Khan -- Pholourie bina chutney : copyright and cultural identity in Indo-Caribbean music / Bryan Khan -- River Plate tango : appropriation, borrowing and innovation / Maximiliano Marzetti -- Section C: Europe. Ownership as sharing : the practices of Irish folk music / Luke McDonagh -- Hungarian musical heritage goes viral -- Hungarian folk music from a copyright perspective / Péter Mezei and Gergely Békés -- Flamenco music, borrowing practices and the limits of copyright / Antoni Rubí-Puig -- Canzone napoletana, chanson francaise and southern Italian folk music : who took from whom? / Giovanni Maria Riccio -- Greek traditional music : creativity, copyright and the commons / Stavroula Karapapa -- Section D: Africa and Middle East. Israeli music genres : appropriation and borrowing as a tool for national and cultural emergence and structuring / Omri Rachum-Twaig -- Feel the Benga beat : music borrowing and copyright law in Kenya / Marisella N Ouma -- The many facets of borrowing and creativity in South African music / Tobias Schonwetter and Bram Van Wiele -- Section E: Asia and Oceania. History, functionality and dignity : traditional Chinese music borrowing and copyright protection in China / Tianxiang He and Jing Li -- Music borrowing in the history of Japanese music / Ryu Kojima -- Creation and the dreamtime : Indigenous music in Australia / Michael Blakeney -- E tu, stand up : copyright and Maori music / Jonathan Barrett

"This ground-breaking book examines the multifaceted dynamics between copyright law and music borrowing within a rich diversity of music genres from across the world. It evaluates how copyright laws under different generic conventions may influence, or are influenced by, time-honoured creative borrowing practices. Leading experts from around the world scrutinise a carefully selected range of musical genres, including pop, hip-hop, jazz, blues, electronic and dance music, as well as a diversity of region-specific genres, such as Jamaican music, River Plate Tango, Irish folk music, Hungarian folk music, Flamenco, Australian indigenous music, Maori music and many others." --