Adventures Of A Jazz Age Lawyer

Author : Gary A. Rosen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520969759

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Adventures of a Jazz Age Lawyer by Gary A. Rosen Pdf

Adventures of a Jazz Age Lawyer is the lively story of legal giant Nathan Burkan, whose career encapsulated the coming of age of the institutions, archetypes, and attitudes that define American popular culture. With a client list that included Charlie Chaplin, Al Jolson, Frank Costello, Victor Herbert, Mae West, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, Arnold Rothstein, and Samuel Goldwyn, Burkan was “New York’s Spotlight Lawyer” for more than three decades. He was one of the principal authors of the epochal Copyright Act of 1909 and the guiding spirit behind the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (Ascap), which provided the first practical means for songwriters to collect royalties for public performances of their works, revolutionizing the music business and the sound of popular music. While the entertainment world adapted to the disruptive technologies of recorded sound, motion pictures, and broadcasting, Burkan’s groundbreaking work laid the legal foundation for the Great American Songbook and the Golden Age of Hollywood, and it continues to influence popular culture today. Gary A. Rosen tells stories of dramatic and uproarious courtroom confrontations, scandalous escapades of the rich and famous, and momentous clashes of powerful political, economic, and cultural forces. Out of these conflicts, the United States emerged as the world’s leading exporter of creative energy. Adventures of a Jazz Age Lawyer is an engaging look at the life of Nathan Burkan, a captivating history of entertainment and intellectual property law in the early twentieth century, and a rich source of new discoveries for anyone interested in the spirit of the Jazz Age.

Author : Gregory Steirer
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780472076826

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Legal Stories by Gregory Steirer Pdf

How copyright law and the practice of narrative-based property development influenced each other before 1978

Author : Katherine M. Leo
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781793619419

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Forensic Musicology and the Blurred Lines of Federal Copyright History by Katherine M. Leo Pdf

Drawing on interdisciplinary research methods from musicological and legal scholarship, this book maps the historical terrain of forensic musicology. It examines the contributions of musical expert witnesses, their analytical techniques, and the issues they encounter assisting courts in clarifying the blurred lines of music copyright.

Author : Howie Singer,Bill Rosenblatt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780197656891

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Key Changes by Howie Singer,Bill Rosenblatt Pdf

"This is a book about how technology has affected the music industry through a series of disruptions that have taken place ten times over the past century. Whenever technological innovations result in a compelling new way to distribute music to the public, the music industry changes in myriad and fundamental ways to adjust to the new format. And while the technologies themselves have evolved over the decades, the changes within the business follow a distinct pattern. Key Changes describes this pattern: it defines an analytical structure, the 6C Framework, that explains how the music business transformed in each era. The ten disruptions are the formats for distributing recorded music: phonograph records, radio, LPs, tapes, CDs, television, digital downloads, streaming, and streaming video; and then into the future with voice response and AI technologies, where the changes are in progress now. Each of these has a chapter in the book. The book concludes with an examination of how the 6C Framework applies across the timeline of various music formats, as well as to technologically induced changes in other industries, ranging from movies to sports to coffee, and it offers some observations about how blockchain technology could be the source of the next set of disruptive innovations in the music industry"--

Author : Linda De Roche
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610696685

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The Jazz Age by Linda De Roche Pdf

This intriguing study examines the truth behind the myths and misconceptions that defined the Roaring Twenties, as portrayed through the popular literary works of the time. This one-stop reference to the "Jazz Age"—the period that began after the First World War and ended with the stock market crash of 1929—digs into the cultural, historical, and literary contexts of the era. Author Linda De Roche examines the writing of the time to look beyond the common conceptions of the Roaring Twenties and instead reflect on the era's complexities and contradictions, including how gender and race influenced social mores. The book profiles key American literature of the time, including F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, Sinclair Lewis's Babbit, Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and Nella Larsen's Passing. Filled with essays that offer historical explorations of each work as well as suggested learning activities, chapters also feature study questions, primary source documents, and chronologies. Support materials include activities, lesson plans, discussion questions, topics for further research, and suggested readings.

Author : Joseph Tartakovsky
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781594039867

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The Lives of the Constitution by Joseph Tartakovsky Pdf

In a fascinating blend of biography and history, Joseph Tartakovsky tells the epic and unexpected story of our Constitution through the eyes of ten extraordinary individuals—some renowned, like Alexander Hamilton and Woodrow Wilson, and some forgotten, like James Wilson and Ida B. Wells-Barnett. Tartakovsky brings to life their struggles over our supreme law from its origins in revolutionary America to the era of Obama and Trump. Sweeping from settings as diverse as Gold Rush California to the halls of Congress, and crowded with a vivid Dickensian cast, Tartakovsky shows how America’s unique constitutional culture grapples with questions like democracy, racial and sexual equality, free speech, economic liberty, and the role of government. Joining the ranks of other great American storytellers, Tartakovsky chronicles how Daniel Webster sought to avert the Civil War; how Alexis de Tocqueville misunderstood America; how Robert Jackson balanced liberty and order in the battle against Nazism and Communism; and how Antonin Scalia died warning Americans about the ever-growing reach of the Supreme Court. From the 1787 Philadelphia Convention to the clash over gay marriage, this is a grand tour through two centuries of constitutional history as never told before, and an education in the principles that sustain America in the most astonishing experiment in government ever undertaken.

Author : Frederik Nebeker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0470409746

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Dawn of the Electronic Age by Frederik Nebeker Pdf

A comprehensive and fascinating account of electrical and electronics history Much of the infrastructure of today's industrialized world arose in the period from the outbreak of World War I to the conclusion of World War II. It was during these years that the capabilities of traditional electrical engineering—generators, power transmission, motors, electric lighting and heating, home appliances, and so on—became ubiquitous. Even more importantly, it was during this time that a new type of electrical engineering—electronics—emerged. Because of its applications in communications (both wire-based and wireless), entertainment (notably radio, the phonograph, and sound movies), industry, science and medicine, and the military, the electronics industry became a major part of the economy. Dawn of the Electronic Age?explores how this engineering knowledge and its main applications developed in various scientific, economic, and social contexts, and explains how each was profoundly affected by electrical technologies. It takes an international perspective and a narrative approach, unfolding the story chronologically. Though a scholarly study (with sources of information given in endnotes for engineers and historians of science and technology), the book is intended for the general public.?Ultimately, it tells the story of the development of a new realm of engineering and its widespread applications during the remarkable and tragic period of two world wars and the decades in between.

Author : Michael Wolraich
Publisher : Union Square & Co.
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-06
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781454948032

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The Bishop and the Butterfly by Michael Wolraich Pdf

The riveting story of how the murder of femme fatale Vivian Gordon in 1931 brought about the downfall of the mayor of New York City and led to the end of Tammany Hall’s dominance. Vivian Gordon went out before midnight in a velvet dress and mink coat. Her body turned up the next morning in a desolate Bronx park, a dirty clothesline wrapped around her neck. At her stylish Manhattan apartment, detectives discovered notebooks full of names—businessmen, socialites, gangsters. And something else: a letter from an anti-corruption commission established by Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Led by the imperious Judge Samuel Seabury, the commission had uncovered a police conspiracy to frame women as prostitutes. Had Vivian Gordon been executed to bury her secrets? As FDR pressed the police to solve her murder, Judge Seabury pursued the trail of corruption to the top of Gotham’s powerful political machine—the infamous Tammany Hall.

Author : Lawrence T. Lorimer,Bryan H. Bunch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1352 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : English language
ISBN : PSU:000012391585

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Student Handbook Including Webster's New World Dictionary by Lawrence T. Lorimer,Bryan H. Bunch Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Books
ISBN : IOWA:31858046235374

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Canadian Bookman by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101065561530

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Bookseller and Stationer by Anonim Pdf

Author : Melvil Dewey,Karl Brown,Bertine Emma Weston,Helen E. Wessells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Libraries
ISBN : UCSC:32106021024366

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Library Journal by Melvil Dewey,Karl Brown,Bertine Emma Weston,Helen E. Wessells Pdf

Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Juniorlibraries, 1954-May 1961). Issued also separately.

Author : Roger M. Olien,Diana Davids Hinton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Fraud
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034750823

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Easy Money by Roger M. Olien,Diana Davids Hinton Pdf

During the great oil speculations in the 1920s, both promoters and investors became victims of their common greed. Outlining the activities of several different promoters and drawing on business papers, federal court records, and local land records, the Oliens describe the legal and regulatory responses to fraud. Their fascinating story breaks new ground in American social and business history and offers new insight into the culture of American capitalism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1042 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Biography
ISBN : MINN:31951000990399B

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The International Who's who by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : American literature
ISBN : OSU:32435064914369

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The Southern Register by Anonim Pdf