The story of fake books : bootlegging songs to musicians
"Fake books - anthologies of songs notated in 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 fake books of pop songs, which evolved through the bootlegging of a now obscure musical subscription service, Tune-Dex. Barry Kernfeld chronicles the history of fake books from their increased popularity among musicians to the prosecution of publishers by the government and the music industry, resulting in America's first full-blown federal trial for criminal copyright infringement
Print Book, English, 2006
Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Md., 2006