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Rereleasing ‘Red’: On Taylor Swift’s latest album and music copyright
Taylor Swift

Writer-director Taylor Swift attends a premiere for the short film “All Too Well” at AMC Lincoln Square 13 on Friday, Nov. 12, 2021, in New York. (Image: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

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    • Rereleasing ‘Red’: On Taylor Swift’s latest album and music copyright

    Cynthia Dahl, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law and director of the Detkin Intellectual Property and Technology Legal Clinic, discusses music copyright and the Swift controversy.

    Kristen de Groot

    Scholarship and identity through family, Afrofuturism, and 1,600 vinyl records
    DJ Kid Charlemagne spins records at a turntable, a pool table is behind him.

    DJ Kid Charlemagne, aka Antoine Haywood. (Image: Annenberg School for Communication)

    Scholarship and identity through family, Afrofuturism, and 1,600 vinyl records

    As part of his ongoing exploration into multimodal scholarship, doctoral student Antoine Haywood pairs his newly published autoethnographic essay with a curated soundtrack.

    From Annenberg School for Communication

    Understanding civic engagement
    Civic House exterior with foliage

    Civic House. (Image: Eric Sucar)

    Understanding civic engagement

    In the latest episode of Penn Today’s ‘Understand This …’ podcast series, Herman Beavers of the School of Arts & Sciences and Glenn Bryan of the Office of Government and Community Affairs discuss civic engagement—and jazz.
    ‘Ten Thousand Birds’ merges nature with classical music
    Man with cello outside with child dancing

    Alarm Will Sound will perform at the Morris Arboretum in September. (Image: Alan Pierson)

    ‘Ten Thousand Birds’ merges nature with classical music

    Penn Live Arts kicks off its fall season with the local premiere of “Ten Thousand Birds” given by modern chamber music ensemble Alarm Will Sound in an outdoor performance at Morris Arboretum’s Bloomberg Farm

    Kristina García

    What was the earliest music?

    What was the earliest music?

    Mary Channen Caldwell of the School of Arts & Sciences said there’s evidence of written music from as early as 1400 BC. “The western musical notation that is often, if misleadingly, considered ‘standard,’” she said, “is only one possible system for recording music, and can only reasonably be used to notate musical works that follow certain conventions of pitch, rhythm, harmony, etc.”

    Eugene Lew reflects on a year without live performances
    Eugene Lew in his music studio

    Eugene Lew, lecturer and director of Sound and Music Technology in the Department of Music. (Image: OMNIA)

    Eugene Lew reflects on a year without live performances

    During the pandemic, the lecturer and director of Sound and Music Technology in the Department of Music switched from organizing live performance events to collaborative online technology.

    Susan Ahlborn

    What it’s like to be a composer during a pandemic
    Ania Vu at the piano.

    Graduate student, composer and pianist Ania Vu. (Image: The Pennsylvania Gazette)

    What it’s like to be a composer during a pandemic

    Graduate student Ania Vu found creative ways to compose music during a pandemic, despite the challenge of finding inspiration while being stuck at home.

    The Pennsylvania Gazette

    The Philadelphia Orchestra is playing safe
    philly orchestra on stage at kimmel

    Results of the experiments so far, along with insights from Penn Medicine’s P.J. Brennan, have helped inform the arrangement of members of The Philadelphia Orchestra as they have resumed performances that are captured and later streamed on their new “Digital Stage.” (Image: The Philadelphia Orchestra)

    The Philadelphia Orchestra is playing safe

    Penn experts are working with The Philadelphia Orchestra to study the aerosol droplets that wind and brass musicians produce when playing. Their findings, aimed at reducing the risk of COVID-19 transmission, could help the Orchestra once again play together.

    Katherine Unger Baillie