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mostlysignssomeportents · 5 years

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#1yrago Happy Public Domain day: for real, for the first time in 20 years!

Every year, Jennifer Jenkins and Jamie Boyle from the Duke Center for the Public Domain compile a "Public Domain Day" list (previously) that highlights the works that are not entering the public domain in America, thanks to the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, which hit the pause button on Americans' ability to freely use their artistic treasures for two decades -- a list that also included the notable works entering the public domain in more sensible countries of the Anglophere, like Canada and the UK, where copyright "only" lasted for 50 years after the author's death.

But this year, it's different.

This is the year that America unpauses its public domain; it's also the year that Canadian PM Justin Trudeau capitulated to Donald Trump and retroactively extended copyright on works in Canada for an extra 20 years, ripping works out of Canada's public domain, making new works based on them into illegal art (more proof that good hair and good pecs don't qualify you to be a good leader -- see also: V. Putin -- not even when paired with high-flying, cheap rhetoric).

Even as Canada's public domain has radically contracted, America's has, for the first, time, opened.

So this year's American Public Domain Day List is, for the first time in 20 years, not a work melancholy alternate history, but rather a celebration of works that Americans are newly given access to without restriction or payment, for free re-use and adaptation, in the spirit of such classics as Snow White, West Side Story, My Fair Lady, All You Need is Love, and more (More than 1,000 in all, summarized in this handy spreadsheet -- thanks Gary!).

Films * Safety Last!, directed by Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor, featuring Harold Lloyd * The Ten Commandments, directed by Cecil B. DeMille * The Pilgrim, directed by Charlie Chaplin * Our Hospitality, directed by Buster Keaton and John G. Blystone * The Covered Wagon, directed by James Cruze * Scaramouche, directed by Rex Ingram

Books * Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan and the Golden Lion * Agatha Christie, The Murder on the Links * Winston S. Churchill, The World Crisis * e.e. cummings, Tulips and Chimneys * Robert Frost, New Hampshire * Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet * Aldous Huxley, Antic Hay * D.H. Lawrence, Kangaroo * Bertrand and Dora Russell, The Prospects of Industrial Civilization * Carl Sandberg, Rootabaga Pigeons * Edith Wharton, A Son at the Front * P.G. Wodehouse, works including The Inimitable Jeeves and Leave it to Psmith * Viginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

Music * Yes! We Have No Bananas, w.&m. Frank Silver & Irving Cohn * Charleston, w.&m. Cecil Mack & James P. Johnson * London Calling! (musical), by Noel Coward * Who’s Sorry Now, w. Bert Kalmar & Harry Ruby, m. Ted Snyder * Songs by “Jelly Roll” Morton including Grandpa’s Spells, The Pearls, and Wolverine Blues (w. Benjamin F. Spikes & John C. Spikes; m. Ferd “Jelly Roll” Morton) * Works by Bela Bartok including the Violin Sonata No. 1 and the Violin Sonata No. 2 * Tin Roof Blues, m. Leon Roppolo, Paul Mares, George Brunies, Mel Stitzel, & Benny Pollack (There were also compositions from 1923 by other well-known artists including Louis Armstrong, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, WC Handy, Oscar Hammerstein, Gustav Holst, Al Jolson, Jerome Kern, and John Phillip Sousa; though their most famous works were from other years.)

And as great as that list is, it's hardly a patch on the amazing works we'd be inheriting if the Sonny Bono law hadn't been passed and the 1978 law was still on the books -- works whose authors fully expected them to be in the public domain as of tomorrow:

Books * Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time * Rachel Carson, Silent Spring * Barbara Tuchman, The Guns of August * Katherine Anne Porter, Ship of Fools * James Baldwin, Another Country * Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle * Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions * Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire * Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange * Michael Harrington, The Other America * Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom * J.G. Ballard, The Drowned World * Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes * Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest * Edward Albee, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? * Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich * Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook * Helen Gurley Brown, Sex and the Single Girl * Ingri d’Aulaire and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire, D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths

Movies * Lawrence of Arabia * The Longest Day * The Manchurian Candidate * Dr. No * Jules and Jim * Sanjuro * Birdman of Alcatraz * Mutiny on the Bounty * Days of Wine and Roses * How the West Was Won

Music * Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream), by Cindy Walker, performed by Roy Orbison * Blowin’ in the Wind, Bob Dylan * Watermelon Man, Herbie Hancock (from his first album, Takin’ Off) * Twistin’ the Night Away, Sam Cooke * You Can’t Judge a Book by the Cover and You Shook Me, Willie Dixon * Surfin’ Safari, The Beach Boys * Songs from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Stephen Sondheim * Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream), Cindy Walker * Big Girls Don’t Cry, Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio * Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield * Little Boxes, Malvina Reynolds * The Loco-Motion, Gerry Goffin and Carole King * Soldier Boy, Luther Dixon and Florence Greenberg

And, as Jenkins and Boyle point out, the largely hidden casualty of copyright term extension is the scholarship and research published in academic journals, who paid nothing for these works, and who have locked them up for decades to come:

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Public Domain Day: 50,000 titles from 1923 available

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Public Domain Day: 50,000 titles from 1923 available

January 1, 2019 is (finally) Public Domain Day

For the first time in over 20 years, on January 1, 2019, published works will enter the US public domain.1 Works from 1923 will be free for all to use and build upon, without permission or fee. They include dramatic films such as The Ten Commandments, and comedies featuring Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Harold Lloyd. There are literary works by Robert Frost, Aldous Huxley, and Edith Wharton, the “Charleston” song, and more. And remember, this has not happened for over 20 years. Why? Works from 1923 were set to go into the public domain in 1999, after a 75-year copyright term. But in 1998 Congress hit a two-decade pause button and extended their copyright term for 20 years, giving works published between 1923 and 1977 an expanded term of 95 years.2

But now the drought is over. How will people celebrate this trove of cultural material? Google Books will offer the full text of books from that year, instead of showing only snippet views or authorized previews. The Internet Archive will add books, movies, music, and more to its online library. HathiTrust has made over 50,000 titles from 1923 available in its digital library. Community theaters are planning screenings of the films. Students will be free to adapt and publicly perform the music. Because these works are in the public domain, anyone can make them available, where you can rediscover and enjoy them. (Empirical studies have shown that public domain books are less expensive, available in more editions and formats, and more likely to be in print—see here, here, and here.) In addition, the expiration of copyright means that you’re free to use these materials, for education, for research, or for creative endeavors—whether it’s translating the books, making your own versions of the films, or building new music based on old classics.

Here are some of the works that will be entering the public domain in 2019. A fuller (but still partial) listing of over a thousand works that we have researched can be found here. (You can click on some of the titles below to get the newly public domain works.)

Films

Safety Last!, directed by Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor, featuring Harold Lloyd

The Ten Commandments, directed by Cecil B. DeMille

The Pilgrim, directed by Charlie Chaplin

Our Hospitality, directed by Buster Keaton and John G. Blystone

The Covered Wagon, directed by James Cruze

Scaramouche, directed by Rex Ingram

Books

Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan and the Golden Lion

Agatha Christie, The Murder on the Links

Winston S. Churchill, The World Crisis

e.e. cummings, Tulips and Chimneys

Robert Frost, New Hampshire

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Aldous Huxley, Antic Hay

D.H. Lawrence, Kangaroo

Bertrand and Dora Russell, The Prospects of Industrial Civilization

Carl Sandberg, Rootabaga Pigeons

Edith Wharton, A Son at the Front

P.G. Wodehouse, works including The Inimitable Jeeves and Leave it to Psmith

Viginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room

Music

Yes! We Have No Bananas, w.&m. Frank Silver & Irving Cohn

Charleston, w.&m. Cecil Mack & James P. Johnson

London Calling! (musical), by Noel Coward

Who’s Sorry Now, w. Bert Kalmar & Harry Ruby, m. Ted Snyder

Songs by “Jelly Roll” Morton including Grandpa’s Spells, The Pearls, and Wolverine Blues (w. Benjamin F. Spikes & John C. Spikes; m. Ferd “Jelly Roll” Morton)

Works by Bela Bartok including the Violin Sonata No. 1 and the Violin Sonata No. 2

Tin Roof Blues, m. Leon Roppolo, Paul Mares, George Brunies, Mel Stitzel, & Benny Pollack

(There were also compositions from 1923 by other well-known artists including Louis Armstrong, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, WC Handy, Oscar Hammerstein, Gustav Holst, Al Jolson, Jerome Kern, and John Phillip Sousa; though their most famous works were from other years.)3

Of course, 1923 was a long time ago. (Under the 56-year copyright term that existed until 1978, we could be seeing works from 1962 enter the public domain in 2019.) Unfortunately, the fact that works from 1923 are legally available does not mean they are actually available. Many of these works are lost entirely or literally disintegrating (as with old films and recordings), evidence of what long copyright terms do to the conservation of cultural artifacts. For the works that have survived, however, their long-awaited entry into the public domain is still something to celebrate.

Technically, many works from 1923 may already have entered the public domain decades ago because the copyright owners did not comply with the “formalities” that used to be necessary for copyright protection. Back then, your work went into the public domain if you did not include a copyright notice—e.g. “Copyright 1923 Charlie Chaplin”—when publishing it, or if you did not renew the copyright after 28 years. Current copyright law no longer has these requirements. But, even though those works might technically be in the public domain, as a practical matter the public often has to assume they’re still copyrighted (or risk a lawsuit) because the relevant copyright information is difficult or impossible to find—older records can be fragmentary, confused, or lost. That’s why January 1, 2019 is so significant. On that date, the public will know that works published in 1923 are free for public use without tedious or inconclusive research.

For example, in 2019, we will know that Robert Frost’s famous poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” is in the public domain because copyright over the collection containing the poem, New Hampshire, will lapse. (It’s possible that the poem might have entered the public domain earlier because it was first published in a magazine and that earlier copyright was not renewed on time—see discussion thread here—but we can be confident that its copyright has expired in 2019.) Frost’s estate has used copyright law to strictly control uses of his works. Eric Whitacre, who composed the incredible Virtual Choir works, discovered this the hard way when he wrote a piece in memory of a couple who had died within weeks of each other after being married over fifty years. The piece was commissioned by the couple’s daughter, whose favorite poem was “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening.” Whitacre wrote a choral work based on the poem, and it was so well-received that other conductors began asking him for the work. He writes:

After a LONG legal battle (many letters, many representatives), the estate of Robert Frost and their publisher, Henry Holt Inc., sternly and formally forbid me from using the poem for publication or performance… I was crushed. The piece was dead, and would sit under my bed for the next 37 years because of some ridiculous ruling by heirs and lawyers.

(Eventually he asked the poet Charles Anthony Silvestri to write new words for the music that had been set to Frost’s poem, you can see the Virtual Choir performance of that composition here and read his full story here; note that Frost’s lawyers were mistaken about when the copyright ends, as indicated above, it lapses in 2019, if it hasn’t already.) Beginning in 2019, the next Whitacre won’t face this frustration, and anyone may use this powerful poem in their own creations.

Note that copyright law has a way of introducing complexities into any analysis. There are some familiar works that appear to be from 1923, but are not in fact entering the public domain in 2019 because of publication details. One is Felix Salten’s Bambi, A Life in the Woods, the basis for Disney’s famous movie. Salten first published it in Germany without a copyright notice in 1923, then republished it with a compliant copyright notice in 1926. When Disney (of all companies) claimed that Bambi was in the public domain, a court disagreed, holding that because the initial 1923 publication was in Germany, the failure to include a copyright notice did not put the book into the US public domain. The 1926 publication was valid, so the book’s copyright expires after 95 years in 2022.4 (The court’s full opinion is here.) Also, while the copyrights in several Jelly Roll Morton songs lapse in 2019, his famous “King Porter Stomp” was not copyrighted until 1924 (even though it was recorded in 1923), so it is not entering the public domain until 2020.

In an abundance of caution, our list above only includes works where we were actually able to track down the notice and renewal data suggesting that they are indeed still in-copyright until 2019. We’ve also compiled—to the best of our research capabilities—a fuller spreadsheet showing other renewed works from 1923. You can find it here. But we want to emphasize that this is only a partial collection; many more works are entering the public domain as well, but we could not find the legal minutia to confirm their copyright status.

It’s a Wonderful Public Domain. . . . What happens when works enter the public domain? Sometimes, wonderful things. The 1947 film It’s A Wonderful Life entered the public domain in 1975 because its copyright was not properly renewed after the first 28-year term. The film had been a flop on release, but thanks to its public domain status, it became a holiday classic. Why? Because TV networks were free to show it over and over again during the holidays, making the film immensely popular. But then copyright law reentered the picture. . . . In 1993, the film’s original copyright holder, capitalizing on a recent Supreme Court case, reasserted copyright based on its ownership of the film’s musical score and the short story on which the film was based (the film itself is still in the public domain). Ironically, a film that only became a success because of its public domain status was pulled back into copyright.

What Could Have Been

Works from 1923 are finally entering the public domain, after a 95-year copyright term. However, under the laws that were in effect until 1978, thousands of works from 1962 would be entering the public domain this year. They range from the books A Wrinkle in Time and The Guns of August, to the film Lawrence of Arabia and the song Blowin’ in the Wind, and much more. Have a look at some of the others. In fact, since copyright used to come in renewable terms of 28 years, and 85% of authors did not renew, 85% of the works from 1990 might be entering the public domain! Imagine what the great libraries of the world—or just internet hobbyists—could do: digitizing those holdings, making them available for education and research, for pleasure and for creative reuse.

Want to learn more about the public domain? Here is the legal background on how we got our current copyright terms (including summaries of recent court cases), why the public domain matters, and answers to Frequently Asked Questions. You can also read James Boyle’s book The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press, 2008)—naturally, you can read the full text of The Public Domain online at no cost and you are free to copy and redistribute it for non-commercial purposes. You can also read “In Ambiguous Battle: The Promise (and Pathos) of Public Domain Day,” an article by Center Director Jennifer Jenkins revealing the promise and the limits of various attempts to reverse the erosion of the public domain, and a short article in the Huffington Post celebrating a previous Public Domain Day.

1 No published works have entered our public domain since 1998. However, a small subset of works—unpublished works that were not registered with the Copyright Office before 1978—have been entering the public domain after a life plus 70 copyright term. But, because these works were never published, potential users are much less likely to encounter them. In addition, it is difficult to determine whether works were “published” for copyright purposes. Therefore, this site focuses on the thousands of published works that are finally entering the public domain.

2 Works published between 1923 and 1977 had to meet certain requirements to be eligible for the 95-year term—they all had to be published with a copyright notice, and works from 1923–1963 also had to have their copyrights renewed after the initial 28-year term.

3 The list of public domain music refers to the “musical composition”—the underlying music and lyrics—not the sound recordings of those compositions. Federal copyright did not used to cover sound recordings from before 1972 (though pre-1972 sound recordings were protected under some states’ laws). However, a new law from 2018 called the Music Modernization Act has federalized copyright for pre-1972 sound recordings, in order to clear up the confusing patchwork of state law protection. For more information about this law, please see the Copyright Office’s summary.

4 Foreign works from 1923 are still copyrighted in the US until 2019 if 1) they complied with US notice and renewal formalities, 2) they were published in the US within 30 days of publication abroad, or 3) if neither of these are true, they were still copyrighted in their home country as of 1/1/96. Note that the copyright term for older works is different in other countries: in the EU, works from authors who died in 1948 will go into the public domain in 2019 after a life plus 70 year term, and in Canada, works of authors who died in 1968 will enter the public domain after a life plus 50 year term.

Special thanks to our tireless and talented research maven and website guru Balfour Smith for building this site and compiling the list of works from 1923.

Public Domain Day 2019 by Duke Law School’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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#000 titles from 1923 available #50 #Aldous Huxley #and Harold Lloyd. There are literary works by Robert Frost #Buster Keaton #Center for the Study of the Public Domain #charlie chaplin #copyrights #published works #US public domain

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todayclassical · 7 years

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March 27 in Music History

1416 Birth of composer Antonio Squarcialupi.

1603 Birth of composer William Smith.

1702 Birth of composer Johann Ernst Eberlin.

1710 Birth of composer Joseph Marie Clement dall' Abaco.

1737 Birth of composer Francesco Zannetti.

1745 FP of G. F. Handel´s oratorio Belshazzar at the King's Theater in London.

1746 Birth of composer Augustin Ullinger.

1757 Death of composer and violinist Johann Stamitz.

1757 Birth of composer Richard John Samuel Stevens.

1760 Birth of composer Ishmail Spicer.

1808 Franz Joseph Haydn gives his last public appearance at a performance of his oratorio The Creation.

1816 Birth of English organist George Elvey in Canterbury.

1827 Dr. Johann Wagner performed an autopsy on Beethoven, revealing a severely cirrhotic and shrunken liver as the cause of death.

1833 Birth of American soprano Genevieve Ward in NYC.

1843 Birth of English organist Charles MacLean in Cambridge.

1851 Birth of French composer Vincent d'Indy, in Paris.

1853 Birth of composer Carl Valentine Lachmund in Booneville, MO.

1854 Birth of Belgian composer Edgar Tinel.

1854 FP of Dorn's opera "Die Nibelungen", in Berlin.

1858 Birth of American composer Peter Christian Lutkin in Wisconsin.

1862 Birth of Argentinian composer Arturo Berutti in San Juan.

1863 Birth of Spanish tenor Francesco Vignas in Barcelona.

1867 Birth of American soprano Edyth Walker in Hopewell, N.Y.

1872 Birth of Spanish bass Andrés De Segurola in Valencia. 1873 Birth of Italian soprano Giannina Russ in Milan.

1876 Birth of American ragtime composer William H. Tyers.

1883 Birth of composer Jan Kunc.

1885 Birth of Dutch composer Harry Cox in Amsterdam.

1892 Birth of American composer and arranger Ferde Grofé in NYC.

1898 Birth of English contralto Edith Furmedge.

1901 Birth of composer Albert Henneberg.

1912 Birth of American composer Reuel Lahmer.

1912 Birth of composer Robert Watson Hughes.

1913 Birth of composer Godfrey Turner.

1914 FP of R. Vaughan Williams´ original version of Symphony No. 2 A London Symphony, at Queen's Hall in London.

1917 FP of G. Puccini's opera La Rondine "The Swallow", at the Opéra du Casino in Monte-Carlo.

1920 Birth of conductor and harmonica virtuoso Richard Hayman.

1920 FP of Vaughan Williams A London Symphony (No 2) at Queens Hall, conducted by Albert Coates.

1924 Death of English organist Walter Parratt in Windsor.

1925 Birth of German-American composer Frank Lewin in Breslau, Germany.

1925 FP of Edward Joseph Collins' Piano Concerto No. 1 in Eb, by the Chicago Symphony, conducted by Frederick Stock with composer as soloist.

1927 Birth of Russian cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich in Baku.

1928 Birth of English soprano Pauline Tinsley in Manchester.

1931 Birth of composer Yoriaki Matsudaira.

1936 Birth of American composer Malcolm Goldstein.

1943 Death of Swiss pianist Emile Blanchet in Pully.

1946 Birth of American baritone John Sandor in Fairmont, WV.

1949 Birth of Danish composer Poul Ruders in Ringsted.

1950 Birth of American mezzo-soprano Maria Louise Ewing in Detroit.

1954 Birth of French composer Thierry Lancino in Civray, France.

1960 FP of Toshiro Mayuzumi's Mandala-Symphonie in Tokyo.

1975 Death of British composer Sir Arthur Bliss, at age 83, in London.

1984 FP of Andrew Lloyd-Webber's musical Starlight Express in London.

1992 Death of Norwegian composer Harald Sæverud in Bergen.

2001 FP of Kevin Volans´ String Quartet No. 6, by the Vanbrugh Quartet, in London.

2002 FP of Osvaldo Golijov's Three Songs for Soprano and Orchestra with Soprano Dawn Upshaw and the Minnesota Orchestra on a program with Haydn and Schumann. Work replaced the premiere of Golijov's violin concerto, which had been scheduled. It was canceled after soloist Pamela Frank developed a repetitive stress injury.

2003 FP of Robert X. Rodriguez's Decem Perfectum.

2005 Death of American pianist Grant Johannesen in Berlin.

#classicalmusic #today in music history #todayclassical #musichistory #onthisday

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photochrono · 7 years

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April 21

Philip Henry Delamotte was born on April 21, 1821 in Sandhurst, Kent, England.

Julius Ebner was born on April 21, 1823 in Augsburg, Germany.

John Lawrence Gihon was born on April 21, 1839 in Milford, NJ, USA.

Frank Arthur Simonds was born on April 21, 1859 in Grand Rapids, MI, USA.

Isaac DeVos was born on April 21, 1860 in Pella, IA, USA.

Cory Penn Montross was born on April 21, 1867 in Wilkes-Barre, PA, USA.

Daniel Conrad Miller was born on April 21, 1870 in Hay Township, ON, Canada.

Ackland Eddy was born on April 21, 1875 in Alburg, VT, USA.

Charles Lavern Colton was born on April 21, 1876 in MI, USA.

Miss Pearl Emma Whitney was born on April 21, 1880 in Newaygo County, MI, USA.

Edward Jump died on April 21, 1883 in Chicago, IL, USA.

Kenneth Rowe Eddy was born on April 21, 1885 in Sault Sainte Marie, MI, USA.

Robert W. Essery died on April 21, 1886 in Saint Paul, MN, USA.

Lester Whyland Sharp was born on April 21, 1887 in Saratoga Springs, NY, USA.

Charles Potuzak was born on April 21, 1889 in Stoborice, Bohemia, Austria.

Alden Jaquith died on April 21, 1890 in Andover, VT, USA.

Claus A. Sandstedt was born on April 21, 1891 in Manistee Township, MI, USA.

Jeremiah Gurney died on April 21, 1895 in New Baltimore, NY, USA.

Joe Edison Litterst was born on April 21, 1896 in Rochester, NY, USA.

Sebastian S. Peckinpaugh died on April 21, 1900 in Green Bay, WI, USA.

Eve Arnold was born on April 21, 1912 in Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Willoughby Wallace Hooper died on April 21, 1912 in Kilmington, Devon, England.

William Beatty [Sigourney, IA] died on April 21, 1913 in Sigourney, IA, USA.

Henry Jowett Schofield was born on April 21, 1919 in TN, USA.

Alphonso M. Sharpsteen died on April 21, 1919.

Ferd Kaufman was born on April 21, 1926 in Sapulpa, OK, USA.

Zephaniah Swift Moore died on April 21, 1926 in Grand Rapids, MI, USA.

Joan Wakelin was born on April 21, 1928 in Lancashire, England.

Dieter Roth was born on April 21, 1930 in Hannover, Germany.

George Reid died on April 21, 1939 in Muskegon, MI, USA.

João Aristeu Urban was born on April 21, 1943 in Curitiba, Brazil.

Elbridge Ayer Burbank died on April 21, 1949 in San Francisco, CA, USA.

Sarah Leen was born on April 21, 1952 in Sparta, WI, USA.

Willard G. Bailey died on April 21, 1954 in Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Edward Burnet Johnson died on April 21, 1955 in New Dorp, NY, USA.

Herman Henry Mende died on April 21, 1956 in Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Harry K. Shigeta died on April 21, 1963 in Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Helmer Bäckström died on April 21, 1964 in Stockholm, Sweden.

Veronika Šleivyte died on April 21, 1998.

Philip L. Condax died on April 21, 2014 in Rochester, NY, USA.

#photographers' identities catalog #nypl #hbd #rip #otd #photohistory

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mitjalovse · 4 years

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We jumped around John Mellencamp's career despite the fact we could've looked at his work chronologically, though I would say we gained a perspective on his illustrious opus. However, we didn't discuss his view of the latter, because he's critical about himself. He continues to scrutinize some of his biggest successes, but he saves the biggest ire towards his early records. Then again, one can understand, his music management at the time transformed him into Johnny Cougar, which, hm, yeah. However, I would claim you can hear the traces of his later self on these discs, such as A Biography. I understand his response against these discs, they don't represent him that much, but I would dare to suggest he needed them to become himself.

#johnny cougar #a biography #where the sidewalk ends #john mellencamp #brian becvar #larry crane #robert 'ferd' frank #tom knowles #andy mackay #john punter #70's music #rock

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We've noticed during our discussions about John Mellencamp he worked under different names before the 90's, though one of them got him on the path, where he still is. That one was John Cougar, but he didn't succeed thanks to his moniker alone. No, he achieved his status with American Fool, which might resemble a typical 80's rock, but Mellencamp, pardon, Cougar does have some trick up his sleeve, which make you do a double take. I mean, the tune in the link takes a typical let's-rock type of song, which Mellencamp's vocals and these weird Depeche Mode-like percussion elements bring into somewhere else. Moreover, I kept thinking, when I listened to the album, how he gave Bryan Adams a few pointers, since you could pass this disc as a platter by that Canadian rocker.

#john cougar #american fool #close enough #larry crane #mike wanchic #kenny aronoff #george 'chocolate' perry #mick ronson #robert 'ferd' frank #eric rosser #dave parman #don gehman #80's music #rock

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mostlysignssomeportents · 6 years

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Happy Public Domain day: for real, for the first time in 20 years!

But this year, it's different.

Even as Canada's public domain has radically contracted, America's has, for the first, time, opened.

https://boingboing.net/2018/12/31/thanks-justin.html

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