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Product Description: The music industryâs 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 publishersâ efforts to stamp out bootleg compilations of lyric sheets in 1929, Barry Kernfeldâs Pop Song Piracy details nearly a century of disobedient music distribution from song sheets to MP3s...read more
Hardcover:
9780226431826 | Univ of Chicago Pr, October 1, 2011, cover price $104.00 | About this edition: The music industryâs ongoing battle against digital piracy is just the latest skirmish in a long conflict over who has the right to distribute music.
Paperback:
9780226431833 | Univ of Chicago Pr, October 1, 2011, cover price $33.00
Product Description: Fake booksâanthologies of songs notated in a musical shorthandâhave 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...read more
Paperback:
9780810857278 | Scarecrow Pr, August 30, 2006, cover price $57.00 | About this edition: Fake booksâanthologies of songs notated in a musical shorthandâhave been used by countless pop and jazz musicians in both professional and amateur settings for more than half a century.
The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz constitutes the most definitive volume on the music, history, performers, and venues of jazz. It contains the broadest coverage of the subject of jazz to appear in one work and seeks to give detailed attention to all periods and styles from many countries, making it the largest dictionary of jazz ever published. Besides traditional jazz topics, there are extensive entries on blues, brass bands, soul music, ragtime, and rock music, as well as profiles on musicians such as Eubie Blake, Bessie Smith, Ray Charles, and Jeff Beck. Among the numerous categories covered in the volume are: · Performers from Louis Armstrong to Joe Zawinul, as well as performing groups from the early New Orleans Excelsior Brass Band to the contemporary World Saxophone Quartet · Jazz terms and topics including pieces on arrangement, form, harmony, and improvisation, as well as articles on jazz in film and jazz singing · Styles are described from Chicago Jazz, Dixieland, and Boogie Woogie through Cool Jazz, Free Jazz, and Third Stream. Also included are Blues, Ragtime, and Latin music · Festivals, clubs, and record labels that have had a seminal place in jazz history, such as the Newport and Montreux festivals, and the clubs Birdland and The Five Spot. Clubs are listed internationally by city, including their histories and the musicians who performed there · Instruments like the saxophone and double bass are covered in detail as well as exotic instruments and special playing techniques such as brass mute effects (view table of contents)
Hardcover:
9781561592845 | 2 edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, February 11, 2003), cover price $475.00
9780195169096 | Reprint edition (Groves Dictionaries Inc, November 15, 1994), cover price $60.00 | About this edition: The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz constitutes the most definitive volume on the music, history, performers, and venues of jazz.
9780312113575 | Reprint edition (St Martins Pr, October 1, 1994), cover price $60.00 | also contains Peekaboo! Sea, Peekaboo! Sea | About this edition: Available for the first time in one volume, the more than 4,500 articles in this comprehensive dictionary include items on performers, styles, instruments, terminology, and famous festivals, clubs, and record labels.
9780935859393, titled "New Grove Dictionary of Jazz" | Groves Dictionaries Inc, December 1, 1988, cover price $395.00
Hardcover:
9780300059021 | Har/com edition (Yale Univ Pr, September 1, 1997), cover price $50.00
Paperback:
9780300072594 | Pap/cdr edition (Yale Univ Pr, December 1, 1997), cover price $35.00
Hardcover:
9780631171645 | Blackwell Pub, July 1, 1991, cover price $32.95
Paperback:
9780631195528 | 2 sub edition (Blackwell Pub, November 1, 1995), cover price $46.95
9780631185314 | Pap/com edition (Blackwell Pub, September 1, 1992), cover price $23.95
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