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More Important Than the Music (Hardcover, New)
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More Important Than the Music (Hardcover, New)
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Today, jazz is considered high art, America's national music, and
the catalog of its recordings-its discography-is often taken for
granted. But behind jazz discography is a fraught and highly
colorful history of research, fanaticism, and the simple desire to
know who played what, where, and when. This history gets its first
full-length treatment in Bruce D. Epperson's More Important Than
the Music. Following the dedicated few who sought to keep jazz's
legacy organized, Epperson tells a fascinating story of archival
pursuit in the face of negligence and deception, a tale that saw
curses and threats regularly employed, with fisticuffs and lawsuits
only slightly rarer. Epperson examines recorded jazz from its
careless handling as a novelty in the 1920s and '30s, through the
deluge of 12-inch vinyl in the middle of the twentieth century, to
the use of computers by today's discographers. Though he focuses
much of his attention on comprehensive discographies, he also
examines the development of a variety of related listings, such as
buyer's guides and library catalogs, and he closes with a look
toward discography's future. From the little black book to the
full-featured online database, More Important Than the Music offers
a history not just of jazz discography but of the profoundly human
desire to preserve history itself.
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