Charles Seeger

thumb Charles Louis Seeger (14 December 1886 – 7 February 1979) was a musicologist, composer, and teacher. Unsourced 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. External links Obituary in Folk Scene (April 1979) Category:Composers from the United States Category:Educators from the United States Category:1979 deaths Category:1886 births Category:Harvard University alumni Category:People from Mexico City Category:Immigrants to the United States Category:University of California, Berkeley faculty