Bootleg: The Secret History of the Other Recording Industry
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| Rating | : | 4.90 (788 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0312142897 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 448 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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In Bootleg: The Secret History of the Other Recording Industry, Clinton Heylin examines the entire modern history of this underground culture: from what defines a bootleg and its complex and protean legal status, to a full history of bootlegs' production and distribution, to what's contained on some of the most notorious bootlegs and how to find them. Along with many illustrations of the creative packages, this is the whole story of the $250 million industry that sustains itself on the great figur
BismarckBoy said Three Stars. Not very well written and tends to ramble on at times but has some interesting information.. "Excellent" according to Z. Stiegler. Excellent, thoroughly researched history of bootlegs. While the chapters on international copyright law might not be everyone's cup of tea, I found them interesting and germane to the dynamics of the international bootleg market. As others have noted, an updated edition would be very welcome. Even outside of the already well documented piracy dimension, the Internet's impact on bootlegs was no less significant than the advent of compact discs in the 1980s. Overall, an excellent book for anyone interested in the histo. "Good, informative book about the subject" according to A Customer. Just like the name said, book tells the history of boots. But, its not just that, there's larger story in whole for that the book tells also the story of dark side of the recording industry.To put it briefly, its also a story of ways controlling the market, using copyrights and blank tape fees to take not the slice of a pie but the whole cake. Read it yourself if you got interested.
This history should be of great interest to industry lawyers and aging hippie collectors?even today, acts from the 1960s and '70s remain the most heavily bootlegged. An exception is his enlightening if brief chapter on British punk, whose anarchic message found its perfect medium in illegal cassettes and vinyl. There is an astonishing wealth of information, as well as a generous sampling of classic bootleg covers, on display here, even if Heylin's repetitive prose may at times make readers feel as if they are trapped in a list