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This is where you can listen to the music from copyright disputes as well as music discussed in the comic excerpts and sidebars. You can find longer Spotify and YouTube playlists to accompany the book at https://learninglink.oup.com/access/jenkins-music1e.
This is an educational website—the audio clips below are intended to help illustrate the material discussed in the book. The majority of them are hosted on third party services such as YouTube. You can find additional audio from music infringement cases at this excellent website from The George Washington University Law School & Columbia Law School. (If you are looking for the audio companion for Theft! A History of Music, please click here.)
Chapter 2
Six Degrees of Inspiration
“. . .and he shall reign forever and ever” from Handel’s Messiah
Beethoven’s quotation of Handel in Missa Solemnis
Part of Mahler’s First Symphony that is similar to Missa Solemnis
Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring
Berio’s quotation of Stravinsky
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony
Part of Brahms’ First Symphony that echoes Beethoven
Part of Mahler’s Third Symphony that echoes Brahms
Mahler’s Second Symphony
Berio borrowing from Mahler in Sinfonia
Super Berio Bros.
The French national anthem
Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture quoting the French national anthem
An episode of Rick Beato’s “Everything Music” demonstrates similarities between Holst’s The Planets and Williams’ Star Wars soundtrack
The Star-Spangled Banner and other American borrowing
The Anacreontic Song
The Star-Spangled Banner
Pinkerton’s theme from Madame Butterfly
Jimi Hendrix playing The Star-Spangled Banner
My Country, ‘Tis of Thee
God Save the Queen
Battle Hymn of the Republic
John Brown’s Body
The Marines’ Hymn
Jacques Offenbach’s Genevieve de Brabant
Classical borrowing from folk songs
The folk song Zhuravel (“The Crane”)
Tchaikovsky’s Second Symphony quoting Zhuravel
The folk song Beriozka (“The Birch Tree”)
Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony quoting Beriozka
Paul Whiteman’s Mississippi Mud
Chapter 4
Bourrée in E Minor and Blackbird
Paul McCartney demonstrating how Bach’s Bourée inspired Blackbird
Pachelbel’s Canon
Pachelbel’s Canon
Catch 22, On & On & On
Coolio, C U When U Get There
Musical building blocks: four chords
The Axis of Awesome, 4 Chords
Sean Hall, Playas Gon’ Play
Taylor Swift, Shake it Off
The music is embedded in a sound recording
George Clinton, Atomic Dog
Public Announcement, D.O.G. in Me
Family Guy
Leigh Harline and Ned Washington, When You Wish Upon a Star
Seth MacFarlane, When You Wish Upon a Weinstein
Ghostface Killah
Louis Armstrong (performing), What a Wonderful World
Ghostface Killah, The Forest
Chapter 6
Fisher v. Dillingham
Felix Bernard & Johnny Black, Dardanella
Jerome Kern, Kalua
Bright Tunes v. Harrisongs
The Chiffons, He’s So Fine
George Harrison, My Sweet Lord
Listen to George Harrison discussing this case
Three Boys v. Bolton
Isley Brothers, Love is a Wonderful Thing
Michael Bolton, Love is a Wonderful Thing
Chapter 7
Blurred Lines
Marvin Gaye, Got to Give It Up
Pharrell Willliams and Robin Thicke, Blurred Lines
Ed Sheeran
Ed Townsend and Marvin Gaye, Let’s Get It On
Ed Sheeran and Amy Wadge, Thinking Out Loud
Martin Harrington and Thomas Leonard, Amazing
Ed Sheeran and John McDaid, Photograph
Kevin Briggs, Kandi Burruss, Tameka Cottle, Lisa Lopes, No Scrubs
Ed Sheeran, Johnny McDaid, Steve Mac, Shape of You
Russell Brown, Sandy Linzer, Wiggle and Giggle All Night
Dua Lipa, Levitating (intro)
Daddy Yankee, Gasolina
Bad Bunny, Bomba Estéreo, Ojitos Lindos
Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee Despacito
Karol G Bichota
Public Enemy
Bar-kays, Son of Shaft
Public Enemy, Caught: Can We Get A Witness?
Malcolm X, 1964 Boston Radio Interview
Public Enemy, Party for Your Right to Fight
Public Enemy, Don’t Believe the Hype
Public Enemy, Caught: Can We Get A Witness?
Bridgeport
George Clinton, Get Off Your As and Jam
N.W.A, 100 Miles and Runnin’
Chapter 10
Alan Lomax -> Jay-Z
Alan Lomax, Rosie
The Animals, Inside Looking Out
Grand Funk Railroad, Inside Looking Out cover
KRS-One, Sound of da Police
(the Grand Funk sample is at :10 and Jay-Z sample is at :35)
Jay-Z Takeover
Bitter Sweet Symphony
The Rolling Stones, The Last Time
The Andrew Oldham Orchestra, The Last Time
The Verve, Bitter Sweet Symphony
Chapter 12
AI-generated music
Xania Monet, How Was I Supposed to Know?
Breaking Rust, Walk my Walk
Chapter 13
“Blind Tom” Wiggins
The Battle of Manassas, by Thomas “Blind Tom” Wiggins
Skip James, Devil Got My Woman
Robert Johnson, Hellhound on my Trail
Leroy Carr, When the Sun Goes Down
Robert Johnson, Love in Vain
Kokomo Arnold, Sagefield Woman Blues
Robert Johnson, I Believe I’ll Dust my Broom
Son House, Walkin’ Blues
Robert Johnson, Walkin’ Blues
Hambone Willie Newbern, Roll and Tumble Blues
Robert Johnson, Traveling Riverside Blues
Leroy Carr, Mean Mistreater Mama
Robert Johnson, Kind Hearted Woman Blues
Rory Block, Hellhound on my Trail
Ben Harper, Dust My Broom
Rolling Stones, Love in Vain
Grateful Dead, Walkin’ Blues
Led Zeppelin, Travelling Riverside Blues
Cream, Crossroads Blues
George Thorogood, Kind Hearted Woman Blues
Chuck Berry
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys, Ida Red
Chuck Berry, Maybellene
Chuck Berry, Roll Over Beethoven
The Beatles, Roll Over Beethoven
Prince, Johnny B. Goode
Chuck Berry, Sweet Little
Sixteen
The Beach Boys, Surfin’ USA
Chuck Berry, Brown Eyed Handsome Man
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Overture
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13