The Story of Fake Books: Bootlegging Songs to Musicians

The Story of Fake Books: Bootlegging Songs to Musicians
ISBN-10
146170202X
ISBN-13
9781461702023
Category
Music
Pages
175
Language
English
Published
2006-08-24
Publisher
Scarecrow Press
Author
Barry Kernfeld

Description

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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