Music category: 21679 books
Make Money Online with Your Music
Leveraging Web 3.0, YouTube, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Pinterest, Udemy, and other platforms
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Leveraging New Technology and Online Platforms to Reach Your True Fans, Make Money Online, and Earn Extra Income as a Musician
How should I sell my music? Where can I distribute my recordings? How else can I make money as a musician? How can I find my true fans? Should I teach online? Should...
Beyond Exoticism
Western Music and the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2007
In Beyond Exoticism, Timothy D. Taylor considers how western cultures’ understandings of racial, ethnic, and cultural differences have been incorporated into music from early operas to contemporary television advertisements, arguing that the commonly used term “exoticism” glosses over such differences...
From Art to Commerce
A Workbook for Independent Musicians
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
The odds of building and sustaining a career as an independent musician are better today than ever before. But creating great music is just the beginning. In order to succeed, you’ve got to sell it, too. That requires a skill set that doesn’t come naturally to many artists, some of whom waste thousands...
Music 4.0
A Survival Guide for Making Music in the Internet Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Featuring the latest music business and social media concepts as well as brand-new interviews with a variety of the industry's top movers and shakers, Music 4.0: A Survival Guide for Making Music in the Internet Age is a completely updated version of the previous best-selling editions!
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Music in the West Country
Social and Cultural History across an English Region
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Music in the West Country is the first regional history of music in England. Ranging over seven hundred years, from the minstrels, waits, and cathedral choristers of the fourteenth century to the Bristol Sound of the late twentieth, the book explores the region's soundscape, from its gateway cities...
by Rachel Carroll, Adam Hansen
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Bringing together exciting new interdisciplinary work from emerging and established scholars in the UK and beyond, Litpop addresses the question: how has writing past and present been influenced by popular music, and vice versa? Contributions explore how various forms of writing have had a crucial...
by George Plasketes
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
There are undercurrents and peripheral taste preferences that are a defining part of our individual and collective cultural experience. Music is no exception. George Plasketes adapts the iconic "A-side/B-side" dichotomy from the 45 r.p.m. for use as a unique conceptual, critical, historical, and cultural...
Mavericks of Sound
Conversations with Artists Who Shaped Indie and Roots Music
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
In Mavericks of Sound: Conversations with the Artists Who Shaped Indie and Roots Music, music scholar David Ensminger offers a collection of vivid and compelling interviews with legendary roots rock and indie artists who bucked mainstream trends and have remained resilient in the face of enormous...
by Balaji Vittal, Anirudha Bhattacharjee
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
To a nation fed on classical music, the advent of Rahul Dev Burman with his repertoire of Western beats was a godsend. RD revolutionized Hindi film music in the 1970s, and with his emphasis on rhythm and beats, this Pied Piper of Hindi film music had young India swinging to his tunes. At the same...
by James Hoag
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Welcome to Volume 2 in the Legends of Soul series.If you have read any of The Legends of Rock & Roll series, this is similar, except I am spotlighting artists who perform primarily in the genre of Soulmusic.This is really a mini-biography of Ray Charles which emphasizes the music that...
The Republic of Rock
Music and Citizenship in the Sixties Counterculture
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
In his 1967 megahit "San Francisco," Scott McKenzie sang of "people in motion" coming from all across the country to San Francisco, the white-hot center of rock music and anti-war protests. At the same time, another large group of young Americans was also in motion, less eagerly,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2018
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.
Army music units have historically conducted community engagement missions on behalf of Army Public Affairs to engender trust and confidence in the U.S. Army among U.S. citizens. Measuring...
Music and History
Bridging the Disciplines
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2005
This book begins with a simple question: Why haven't historians and musicologists been talking to one another? Historians frequently look to all aspects of human activity, including music, in order to better understand the past. Musicologists inquire into the social, cultural, and historical contexts...
Cuba and Its Music
From the First Drums to the Mambo
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
This entertaining history of Cuba and its music begins with the collision of Spain and Africa and continues through the era of Miguelito Valdés, Arsenio Rodríguez, Benny Moré, and Pérez Prado. It offers a behind-the-scenes examination of music from a Cuban point of view, unearthing surprising,...