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The Story of Fake Books. Bootlegging Songs to Musicians.
Barry Kernfeld
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Description for The Story of Fake Books. Bootlegging Songs to Musicians.
Paperback. Drawing from FBI files, newspaper accounts, court records, and oral history, this book reveals the stories of the origins and prosecution of pop-song fake-book bootleggers, and of the emergence of the definitive jazz fake book, "The Real Book". Series: Studies in Jazz. Num Pages: 174 pages, Illustrations, music. BIC Classification: AV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 295.
Fake books—anthologies of songs notated in a musical shorthand—have been used by countless pop and jazz musicians in both professional and amateur settings for more than half a century. The Story of Fake Books: Bootlegging Songs to Musicians traces the entertaining and previously unknown account of the origins of pop song fake books, which evolved through the bootlegging of a now obscure musical subscription service, the Tune-Dex. The book follows the history of fake books through their increased popularity among musicians to their prosecution by the government and the music industry, resulting in America's first full-blown federal trial for criminal ... Read more
Fake books—anthologies of songs notated in a musical shorthand—have been used by countless pop and jazz musicians in both professional and amateur settings for more than half a century. The Story of Fake Books: Bootlegging Songs to Musicians traces the entertaining and previously unknown account of the origins of pop song fake books, which evolved through the bootlegging of a now obscure musical subscription service, the Tune-Dex. The book follows the history of fake books through their increased popularity among musicians to their prosecution by the government and the music industry, resulting in America's first full-blown federal trial for criminal ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
174
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Jazz
Number of Pages
174
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810857278
SKU
V9780810857278
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About Barry Kernfeld
Barry Kernfeld is a saxophonist, the editor of The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (1988; 2nd ed., 2001), and the author of What to Listen for in Jazz (1995). He is also the staff archivist in the Historical Collections and Labor Archives within the Special Collections Library at the Pennsylvania State University.
Reviews for The Story of Fake Books. Bootlegging Songs to Musicians.
This volume follows the history of fake books from the Tune-Dex subscription service used in the 1940s to the Real Book series now popularly used (the latter described in part by musicians Steve Swallow and Pat Metheny). Kernfeld details how chord symbols and the first fake books originated, the first copyright infringement case against bootlegging, and when authorized fake books ... Read more