This site was developed with the support of Columbia Law School. The Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning provided development of the technical platform, display features and functionality of the site as it existed between 2002 and 2007.

Since 2007, this site has been maintained and updated by UCLA Law School.

Authors and Technical Assistants

 

 

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Charles Cronin

B.A. Oberlin; J.D. American; M.A., Ph.D. Stanford; M.A. Information Systems, Berkeley.  Charles is a musician and lawyer in Los Angeles.  He is also propriétaire of Buoyant Fields in Santa Barbara where he grows flowers for the production of parfums nobles. 

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Nicci Grayson

Nicci is a member of staff at UCLA Law Library. 

 
 
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Yelena Grinberg

Yelena graduated Phi Beta Kappa with BA in English from Barnard College in 2003 and with MM in Piano Performance from Juilliard in 2004. She recently completed her doctoral degree at Juilliard.

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Jerin Kurian

Jerin graduated from Columbia where he was a Computer Science student. ​

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Lynn McCelland

Lynn is a member of staff at UCLA Law Library​

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Mojdeh Navid

Mojdeh graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Order of the Laurel & the Palm, with BAs in Philosophy and Communication from the University of Southern California in 2008.  She is currently in her second year at the UCLA School of Law.  She is writing the NEWSWORTHY  segment of this project. 

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Aaron Prado

Aaron graduated from Columbia as a Philosophy major. ​

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Andre Redwood

Andre is a Ph.D. candidate in music at Yale University. He holds an M.A. and M.Phil. from Yale, and a B.M. with High Distinction from the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music."  Andre is writing the GLOSSARY for this project. 

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Carl Schoonover

Carl recently graduated from Harvard and is a Ph.D. student in neurosciences at Columbia. ​

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Josh Shipper

Josh graduated from Pomona. ​



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Paul Sipio

Paul graduated summa cum laude with BS from Northeastern University in 2009.  While pursuing undergraduate studies, he took graduate-level courses in Music Composition and Jazz Studies at the New England Conservatory of Music.  Paul is currently a second-year JD candidate at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. paulsipio@law.upenn.edu

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Matthew Urbanek

Matthew graduated from Columbia as a Music major.

Angela Vicari

Angela received her JD from Columbia Law School in 2004. She received her undergraduate degree from New York University in 2001. ​

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Chris Moen

Chris graduated Phi Beta Kappa with BA in Political Science and Global Studies from UCLA in 2007. He recently completed his JD at UCLA Law School.​

  
 

 Credits

With greater success than Blanche DuBois, we "have always depended on the kindness of strangers" to obtain documents for this website from public archives, music retailers, law firms, and research library collections. We thank particularly the following individuals and organizations whom we would like to presume are now friends given their disinterested assistance with this project:

 

Aspen Publishing/American Association of Law Libraries Research Grant Program 

Bettendorf, Iowa Public Library

William Bolcom of the University of Michigan Music Department

Jay Bowen of Bowen Riley Warnock & Jacobson

Buffalo & Erie County Public Library

Robert Cason and Daniel Müllensiefen whose work was sponsored by a pump priming award from the Psychology Department of Goldsmiths, University of London 

Cazenovia College Library

The Center for Popular Music at Middle Tennessee State University

Columbia University Music Department

Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning

Columbia Law Library 

Cornell University Libraries 

Darien Library  

Dartmouth College Library

Detroit Public Library, E. Azalia Hackley Collection

Barry E. Downes of Music Research Consultants

Duke University Music Library

Emory University Libraries

Fairbanks North Star Borough

Henry J. Fasthoff, IV, of Stumpf Farrimond in Houston, Texas  

Florida Public Library  

Greenwich, Connecticut, Public Library

E. Michael Harrington of Belmont University

Hillsborough County Public Library Cooperative

Hinshaw Music, Inc.

Jackson, Mississippi District Library

Judith Finell of Judith Finell Music Services

Rob Harwood

Bruce Keller and James Pastore, Jr. of Debevoise & Plimpton

M. William Krasilovsky

Jonathan Zavin of Loeb & Loeb

Luis Londono, Kurosh Nasseri, and Brian Transeau

Francis McCormick, Jr.

Patrick Maines and the Media Institute in Washington, D.C.

Carol Mowbray of Indio High School

Martin Rosenberg and the National Archives

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound

New York University Libraries

Robert Osterberg of Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

Patchogue Medford Library

James Pegolotti of Western Connecticut State University

Penn State University Library

Princeton University Libraries

Charles S. Sims and Michael T. Mervis of Proskauer Rose

Ray Repp of Ferrisburgh, Vermont

Joseph D. Schleimer of Schleimer & Freundlich

Michael Socha of Dickinson Wright

Stanford University Music Library and Archive of Recorded Sound

Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Library

UCLA Archive of Popular American Music

UCLA Music Library

UCSB Davidson Library

University of Florida Libraries

University of Maine's Maine Music Box

University of Mississippi, John Davis Williams Library

Rob Walker of the New York Times

Wellesley, Massachusetts Free Library

Youngstown State University Libraries

 

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