3:30 PM
Professor Veit Erlmann (University of Texas, Austin) presents "Lion’s Share: Remaking South African Copyright"
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Musicology, Ethnomusicology and Music Theory Graduate Colloquium Series
Professor Veit Erlmann, anthropologist/ethnomusicologist and the Endowed Chair of Music History at the University of Texas at Austin, presents Lion’s Share: Remaking South African Copyright.
Room 130, Edward Johnson Building, 80 Queen's Park, Toronto
FREE
All colloquia take place from 3:30 to 5 pm, unless otherwise noted, with a reception to follow from 5 to 6 pm.
Lion’s Share. Remaking South African Copyright
In the aftermath of apartheid, South Africa undertook an ambitious revision of its intellectual property system, including the copyright statute. The South African government tied the reform to its postapartheid agenda of redistributive justice and a turn to a postindustrial knowledge economy. But the persistence of structural racism and Euro-modernist conceptions of copyright not only threaten the viability of the reform project. They also present the anthropologist with a unique challenge of rethinking some of the long-standing premises of both legal and anthropological scholarship.
Biography
Veit Erlmann is an anthropologist/ethnomusicologist and the Endowed Chair of Music History at the University of Texas at Austin. He has won numerous awards, including the Alan P. Merriam Prize for the best English monograph in ethnomusicology and a Fulbright Award. Since 1975 he has done extensive fieldwork in several African countries, Indonesia and Ecuador. He published widely on music and popular culture in Cameroon, Niger, South Africa (African Stars, 1991, Nightsong, 1996, Music, Modernity and the Global Imagination, 1999) and on sound (Reason and Resonance, 2010). His most recent publication is Lion’s Share: Remaking South African Copyright published by Duke University Press in 2022. Erlmann is the founding and current editor of the journal Sound Studies. https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfso20/current