Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Democracy of Sound: Music Piracy and the Remaking of American Copyright in the Twentieth Century

 Alex Sayf Cummings (Georgia State University). Democracy of Sound (Oxford University Press, 2013).

"This book is for music lovers and those of a certain age who remember artists from the Jazz and Rock days of the 1960s when tape recorders and vinyl were in place and bootlegged recordings of Bob Dylan and Janis Joplin were the in-thing to have. You can see how [Cummings] has enjoyed researching the detailed background of music piracy which makes this book a jolly good read providing the history of music piracy from the late 19th century onwards."
Entertainment Law Review