![]() You will read about troubadours and church composers, swapping tunes (and remarkably profane lyrics), changing both religion and music in the process. You will read about the Holy Roman Empire’s attempts to standardize religious music with the first great musical technology (notation) and the inevitable backfire of that attempt. The history in this book runs from Plato to Blurred Lines and beyond. ![]() And because music affects us so deeply, those struggles were passionate ones. ![]() Philosophy, religion, politics, race-again and again, race-and law. Then why try to stop that process? The reasons varied. To those who think that mash-ups and sampling started with YouTube or the DJ’s turntables, it might be shocking to find that musicians have been borrowing-extensively borrowing-from each other since music began. Again and again there have been attempts to police music to restrict borrowing and cultural cross-fertilization. This comic lays out 2000 years of musical history. ![]()
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