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.<br>
  
      
        

  <span>Fake books-anthologies
 of songs notated in a 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 pop song fake books, which evolved through the bootlegging of
 a now obscure musical subscription service, the Tune-Dex. The book 
follows the history of fake books through their increased popularity 
among musicians to their prosecution by the government and the music 
industry, resulting in America's first full-blown federal trial for 
criminal copyright infringement. Through accounts given by jazz 
musicians Steve Swallow and Pat Metheny, The Story of Fake Books also 
reveals the definitive history of the most popular fake book, one that 
has acquired a legendary status among jazz musicians: an anthology of 
jazz tunes called The Real Book. Drawing from information in FBI files, 
entertainment trade papers, and federal court records, author Barry 
Kernfeld presents pioneering research, which brings together aspects of 
pop music history and copyright law to disclose this predecessor of 
current-day battles over pop song piracy</span>

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