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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 intense 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 the documentation of recorded jazz from its casual origins as a novelty in the 1920s and '30s, through the overwhelming deluge of 12-inch vinyl records 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.

Jazz --- Sound recordings --- Discography --- History. --- Collectors and collecting. --- jazz, music, history, national identity, recordings, vinyl, records, session musicians, brass, band, ensemble, discography, sound, buyers guides, catalogs, library, copyright, plagiarism, covers, documentation, rivalries, adaptation, digital, musicology, interpretation, evaluation, canon building, collectors, technology, bibliography, index, reference, nonfiction.

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Library automation --- Alphabetical cataloguing --- 025.35 --- Libraries --- -Library surveys --- -Online bibliographic searching --- Library catalogs --- Online library catalogs --- Catalogs, On-line --- Library online catalogs --- On-line catalogs (Libraries) --- Online catalogs --- Online public access catalogs (Libraries) --- OPACs (Libraries) --- Online information services --- Catalogs, Library --- Catalogs --- On-line bibliographic searching --- Electronic information resource searching --- Searching, Bibliographical --- Surveys --- Documentation --- Public institutions --- Librarians --- Catalogus: fysisch: kaartcatalogus; COM-catalogus; online catalogus; OPAC --- Automation --- 025.35 Catalogus: fysisch: kaartcatalogus; COM-catalogus; online catalogus; OPAC --- Library surveys --- Online bibliographic searching --- Library use studies

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This book discusses the largest and earliest medieval library of the Middle East for which we have documentation - the Ashrafiya library in the very centre of Damascus - and edits its catalogue.

Arabic libraries --- Library catalogs --- Arabic libraries. --- Library catalogs. --- Bibliothekskatalog --- Arabisch --- Handschrift --- Syria --- Damaskus --- Bibliothekskatalog. --- Arabisch. --- Handschrift. --- Damaskus. --- 094:953 --- 027 <5> --- 091 =927 --- Area studies libraries --- Catalogs, Library --- Libraries --- Catalogs --- 091 =927 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Arabisch --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Arabisch --- 027 <5> Algemene bibliotheken--Azië --- Algemene bibliotheken--Azië --- 094:953 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Geschiedenis van het Arabisch schiereiland en de Islamitische wereld --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Geschiedenis van het Arabisch schiereiland en de Islamitische wereld --- E-books --- Book acquisition --- Manuscripts. Epigraphy. Paleography --- History of civilization --- History of Asia --- anno 800-1199 --- Damascus --- Library & Information Science --- Social Sciences --- History

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Books and reading --- Libraries --- Popular literature --- French imprints --- Library catalogs --- Popular culture --- Early printed books --- Livres anciens --- History --- History and criticism --- France, Southern --- Civilization --- Imprints --- -Libraries --- -Library catalogs --- -Popular culture --- -Early printed books --- -094:82-91 --- 094.1 <44> --- 094 "15" --- Bibliography --- Books --- Literature, Popular --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Catalogs, Library --- Catalogs --- Documentation --- Public institutions --- Librarians --- Appraisal of books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- -History --- -History and criticism --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Populaire literatuur. Volksboeken --- Oude drukken: bibliografie----Europa--Frankrijk --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--16e eeuw. Periode 1500-1599 --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- -France, Southern --- -Midi (France) --- Occitania (France) --- Occitanie (France) --- South of France (France) --- Southern France --- -Civilization --- 094 "15" Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--16e eeuw. Periode 1500-1599 --- 094.1 <44> Oude drukken: bibliografie----Europa--Frankrijk --- 094:82-91 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Populaire literatuur. Volksboeken --- 094:82-91 --- Culture --- Midi (France) --- Civilization. --- Imprints. --- Méditerranéen (France) --- Books and reading - France, Southern - History - 16th century --- Libraries - France, Southern - History - 1400-1600 --- Popular culture - France, Southern - History - 16th century --- Popular literature - France, Southern - History and criticism --- Early printed books - France, Southern - 16th century - Bibliography --- Library catalogs - France, Southern - History - 16th century --- France, Southern - Civilization --- France, Southern - Imprints --- Litterature populaire francaise --- 16e siecle --- Catalogues