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Pop song piracy : disobedient music distribution since 1929 / Barry Kernfeld.
De Gruyter University of Chicago Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kernfeld, Barry Dean, 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music trade--Corrupt practices--United States--History--20th century.
- Music trade.
- Popular music--Writing and publishing--Corrupt practices--United States--History--20th century.
- Popular music.
- Sound recording industry--Corrupt practices--United States--History.
- Sound recording industry.
- Sound recordings--Pirated editions--United States--History.
- Sound recordings.
- Copyright--Music--United States--History--20th century.
- Copyright.
- Piracy (Copyright)--United States--History--20th century.
- Piracy (Copyright).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (287 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The music industry's ongoing battle against digital piracy is just the latest skirmish in a long conflict over who has the right to distribute music. Starting with music publishers' efforts to stamp out bootleg compilations of lyric sheets in 1929, Barry Kernfeld's Pop Song Piracy details nearly a century of disobedient music distribution from song sheets to MP3s. In the 1940's and '50s, Kernfeld reveals, song sheets were succeeded by fake books, unofficial volumes of melodies and lyrics for popular songs that were a key tool for musicians. Music publishers attempted to wipe out fake books, but after their efforts proved unsuccessful they published their own. Pop Song Piracy shows that this pattern of disobedience, prohibition, and assimilation recurred in each conflict over unauthorized music distribution, from European pirate radio stations to bootlegged live shows. Beneath this pattern, Kernfeld argues, there exists a complex give and take between distribution methods that merely copy existing songs (such as counterfeit CDs) and ones that transform songs into new products (such as file sharing). Ultimately, he contends, it was the music industry's persistent lagging behind in creating innovative products that led to the very piracy it sought to eliminate.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. Printed Music
- Part II. Broadcasting
- Part III. Recordings
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613242280
- 9781283242288
- 1283242281
- 9780226431840
- 0226431843
- OCLC:
- 742381178
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