Story of Fake Books (eBook)

Bootlegging Songs to Musicians

Barry Kernfeld (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2006
174 Seiten
Scarecrow Press (Verlag)
978-1-4617-0202-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Bootleg fake books - unauthorized anthologies of songs notated in a musical shorthand - have been used for decades by countless pop, jazz, and country musicians. Drawing from FBI files, newspaper accounts, court records, and oral history, Bootlegging Songs to Musicians reveals the previously unknown 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.

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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 copyright infringement. Through accounts given by jazz musicians Steve Swallow and Pat Metheny, The Story of Fake Books also reveals the definitive history of the most popular fake book, one that has acquired a legendary status among jazz musicians: an anthology of jazz tunes called The Real Book. Drawing from information in FBI files, entertainment trade papers, and federal court records, author Barry Kernfeld presents pioneering research, which brings together aspects of pop music history and copyright law to disclose this predecessor of current-day battles over pop song piracy.

Autor

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.

Inhalt

Part 1 List of FiguresPart 2 Editor's ForewardPart 3 Introduction and AcknowledgmentsChapter 4 1. The Tune-Dex: A Card Catalogue for the Music IndustryChapter 5 2. The Growth of Cocktail Lounges: Musicians Need Tune-Dex, TooChapter 6 3. Songs and Copyright and the Invention of Chord SymbolsChapter 7 4. The Tune-Dex Fake Books: Enter the FBIChapter 8 5. Evidence Given in 4/4 TimeChapter 9 6. Legit Fake BooksChapter 10 7. The Making of The Real BookPart 11 General IndexPart 12 Title IndexPart 13 Song and Show IndexPart 14 About the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.8.2006
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Jazz
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Singen / Musizieren
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• ISBN-10: 1-4617-0202-X / 146170202X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4617-0202-3 / 9781461702023