Frasi di Charles Seeger

Charles Seeger, nome alla nascita Charles Louis Seeger, Jr. , è stato un musicologo, compositore, docente e folklorista statunitense.

Era il padre dei cantanti folk americani Pete Seeger , Peggy Seeger e Mike Seeger e fratello del poeta della prima guerra mondiale Alan Seeger . Wikipedia

✵ 14. Dicembre 1886 – 7. Febbraio 1979

“Perhaps the Russians have done the right thing, after all, in abolishing copyright. It is well known that conscious and unconscious appropriation, borrowing, adapting, plagiarizing, and plain stealing are variously, and always have been, part and parcel of the process of artistic creation. The attempt to make sense out of copyright reaches its limit in folk song. For here is the illustration par excellence of the law of Plagiarism. The folk song is, by definition and, as far as we can tell, by reality, entirely a product of plagiarism.”

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