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The Story of Fake Books

By:Kernfeld, Barry
Publisher:Bloomsbury USA
Print ISBN:9780810857278
eText ISBN:9780810857278
Edition:0
Format:Page Fidelity

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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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