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Tom Waits and the Right of Publicity: Protecting the Artist's Negative Voice

2014; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 37; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/03007766.2014.892725

1740-1712

Jeff Klein,

Diverse Musicological Studies

What do you value most about your voice? As ethnomusicological studies of the voice expand, so must our understanding of what voice even means. Voice must entail more than just a sonic phenomenon, but must also relate to our ideology. By fusing an ethnomusicological and legal perspective, this article will explore the "right of publicity," introduce the concept of the negative voice, and explain why Waits stands as the culmination of a gradual evolution of the right of publicity. These explorations can help us understand how musicians can protect their ideological, as well as their physical, voices.