re: thoughts after coffee

["J.Marie Hall" <j_marie_hall at hotmail_com>]

More stuff about ownership:

>Here's a thought (or a few thoughts) about music and ownership.  We all
>know that when music started among the early people that ownership
>couldn't really have been an issue, at least not as we think of ownership
>now.  Seems like somebody sings, an' somebody else picks up the tune, an'
>pretty soon it comes back to the first singer, only he can't recognize it
>anymore.

The same holds true before the printing press.  Medieval literature is 
characterized by such traits.  In fact, it's difficult for literature 
critics to maintain their perspective given that their idea of lit. was 
quite different.  For example, The Book of Good Love from Spain (very 
popular throughout history, not even originally in Castilian Spanish, it was 
in Galician Portuguese and was marginalized b/c of that reason) exists in 4 
manuscripts that were passed around, like the music Fred mentioned.  No one 
knows who added or took away what.  The ways in which lit. was passed 
invited the participants to indeed participate and not just by reading.  All 
of this stuff even filters into medieval theology and ideas about the Bible. 
  It's all over that society, and only through modern technology have 
security safeguards been assumed.  Well, here are 2 more cents :)

Take Care All-
Marie


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