Pop Song Piracy: Disobedient Music Distribution since 1929 Eleventh Printing Edition

I purchased this for my college course, and received it quickly and in perfect condition.

Bought it for class, turns out I didn't even need the class, extra boring

Barry Kernfeld's "Pop Song Piracy - Disobedient Music Distribution Since 1929" goes back to the invention of the Gutenberg printing press and shows how every major technological innovation in media is invariably resisted by the powers- that-be, with the usual result being consumer disobedience. When the powers-that-be ultimately realiaze they cannot cpntrol the consumers, they often opt for assimilating the very disobedient distributors they had been villifying. A fascinating trip showing the evolution of the music industry, and a good read fot anyonr trying to make sense of contemporary copyright wars.