The story of fake books : bootlegging songs to musicians / Barry Kernfeld

By: Series: Studies in jazz ; 53Publication details: Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2006Description: 153 s. : ill., musiknoterISBN:
  • 0-8108-5727-8
  • 978-0-8108-5727-8
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 781.65026/4 22
LOC classification:
  • ML3506 .K46 2006
Other classification:
  • Oeaea
  • Ijx
Contents:
The Tune-dex : a card catalogue for the music industry -- The growth of cocktail lounges : musicians need Tune-dex, too -- Songs and copyright and the invention of chord symbols -- The Tune-dex fake books : enter the FBI -- Evidence given in 4/4 time -- Legit fake books -- The making of the real book.
Summary: 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'
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The Tune-dex : a card catalogue for the music industry -- The growth of cocktail lounges : musicians need Tune-dex, too -- Songs and copyright and the invention of chord symbols -- The Tune-dex fake books : enter the FBI -- Evidence given in 4/4 time -- Legit fake books -- The making of the real book.

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'

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