Obtener libros Pop Song Piracy: Disobedient Music Distribution
since 1929
By Barry Kernfeld
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 1940s 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
