A comic depicting the history of 2000 years of music 'Theft: A History of Music'

Music has been repeatedly prevented from progressing various things such as philosophy, religion, politics, ethnicity, law, etc. Still, it has survived and fought passionately. A comic drawn about the walk of 2000 of such music is released free of charge by Duke Law School in the USA.

Theft! A History of Music
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To understand the history of music, we must understand that the development of various technologies influences music.

However, the history of music is not drawn solely by the development of technology. In the movie, it is stated that "Learning music leads to a clear recognition of what you feel and what you are."

The history of music can be said that musicians and composers are strongly conscious of each other and influenced each other. Each culture has mutual relations and resists each other.

The book is packed with contemporary history such as Brat Lines , which was a big hit in 2013 but lost in the plagiarism trial, from the relationship between Plato of ancient Greece and music.

The image is about the attempt to standardize religious music in the Holy Roman Empire. You can click on the image to go to the work page.

In addition, criticism of jazz which was said to hurt music culture and criticism against frenzy of rock'n'roll is drawn in comical, and not only academic use such as research, but content is heavy, but hard as it is not hard It should be easy to read even if you want to broaden your knowledge as an education.

"Theft: A History of Music" depicts the history of such transformation and repression of culture, the transformation and repression of music by national, philosophical and political reasons.

"Theft: A History of Music" can download pdf etc. free from the following page. You can check notes on licenses, such as when you want to use secondary, at Creative Commons .

Also, Amazon can purchase book version for 2469 yen, Kindle version for 333 yen.

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