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Yan Gao
Yan Gao, a PhD student in Music History and Theory, comes from Kunming, China, and
holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from Colorado College. Currently, she is
investigating the entangled ideas surrounding authorship, copyright, and music borrowing
practices amongst postmodernist musicians in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
By examining recent copyright law cases, she is also researching how those ideas affect
musicians’ creativity across popular music genres.