Joanna Demers
Concert flautist and specialist in popular music, intellectual property and technology, and the aesthetics of post-1945 concert music
Assistant Professor of Music History and Literature, Thornton School of Music
Contact at: (213) 740-3213 or jtdemers@usc.edu
Expertise:
- intellectual property law and music
- contemporary popular music
- American music
- 20th century and 21st century classical music
- hip-hop
- digital sampling
- film music
- flute performance of contemporary avant-garde repertoire
- Author of Steal This Music: How Intellectual Property Law Affects Musical Creativity (University of Georgia Press, winter 2006)
- Ph.D. in musicology from Princeton University (2002)
- D.M.A. in flute performance from UC San Diego (2002)
Foreign Languages:
French
More:
Was interviewed by Salon.com and Public Knowledge as a consultant on issues concerning music and copyright
Gave national or world premieres of pieces by Chaya Czernowin, Inouk Demers, Michael Finnissy, Farangis Nurulla-Khoja and Claude Vivier
http://www.usc.edu/schools/music/private/faculty/jtdemers.php
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