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SUMMARY:Defining performance: the categories of creativity in music and la
 w - Dr Ananay Aguilar\, Faculty of Music
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CONTACT:Dr Duncan Needham
DESCRIPTION:Authorship and performance have traditionally been classified 
 as two distinct categories\, upheld by Romantic ideals about creativity: a
 uthorship representing the work of creative genius and performance that of
  mere interpretation of the author's work. These ideals have permeated the
  practices (e.g. session work) and institutions (e.g. conservatories\, cop
 yright law) surrounding professional musicianship. In my project I ask wha
 t the impact of these ideals might be on the everyday lives of professiona
 l musicians across a variety of genres. In this paper I discuss the result
 s of my first set of 20 interviews with performers (out of an anticipated 
 total of 40)\, reflecting on issues of ownership\, regulation and making a
  living. The interviews suggest that musicians skilfully negotiate differe
 nt degrees of creativity depending on the amount and speed of payments\, c
 redits and rights\, and so resist categorisation of their work: rather tha
 n a binary\, their work represents a continuum between authorship and perf
 ormance. Yet negotiations are consistent with the constraints offered by t
 he market\, and so copyright law in principle appears flexible enough to a
 ccommodate these different forms of creativity. I thus reflect upon altern
 ative ways of thinking about creativity as a form of labour in the context
  of this interdisciplinary conversation between music studies and law.\n\n
 Ananay Aguilar's current project as Leverhulme Early Career Fellow investi
 gates how performers make a living and use the legal framework available t
 o them. The project is based at the Faculty of Music and is supported by t
 he Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge. Ananay took her first de
 gree and Masters at Universidad de los Andes in Colombia and Universidade 
 Estadual de Campinas in Brazil\, and completed a PhD at Royal Holloway\, U
 niversity of London on the label of the London Symphony Orchestra\, LSO Li
 ve. Her interests lie in the production and circulation of recordings\, wi
 th a focus on aesthetics\, economics\, technology and law.
LOCATION:The Richard King Room\, Darwin College
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