He got it for creating new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition
No I would say that neither are good but Jones at least didn't use whips or stuff like that. Napoleon tried stealing ideas from other people and killed lots of animals.
I hope this helped a little.
The sentence - The ranchers called in the sheriff to settle the dispute - is written in the active voice.
The passive voice would be - The sheriff was called by the ranchers to settle the dispute.