Music category: 21679 books
Music in the Marketplace
A social economics approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Much recent economic work on the music industry has been focused on the impact of technology on demand, with predictions being made of digital copyright infringement leading to the demise of the industry. In fact, there have always been profound cyclical swings in music media sales owing to the fact...
The Indie Music Playbook
Promote Your Music Like The Pros Do
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
This book is a brief online on the parts of the music industry that an Indie artist needs to learn about. The times where an artist's biggest job was limited to performing and doing interviews are now a thing of the past. These days, the music industry loves to work with Indie artists and musicians...
Democracy of Sound
Music Piracy and the Remaking of American Copyright in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
It was a time when music fans copied and traded recordings without permission. An outraged music industry pushed Congress to pass anti-piracy legislation. Yes, that time is now; it was also the era of Napster in the 1990s, of cassette tapes in the 1970s, of reel-to-reel tapes in the 1950s, even the...
The Global Music Industry
Three Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
For everyone in the music industry—record labels, managers, music publishers, and the performers themselves—it is important to understand the world music marketplace and how it functions. Yet remarkably little has been written about the music business outside of the U.S. The Global Music Industry:...
The New Music Industries
Disruption and Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
This research-based book outlines career models for artists, methods of creative engagement, artistic options including individuality and branding, production practices, the realities of being a musician in the new industries, and implications for popular music education. Due to the profound effects...
by Arthur Sullivan, Rudyard Kipling
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
"The Absent-Minded Beggar" is an 1899 poem by Rudyard Kipling, set to music by Sir Arthur Sullivan. Sullivan was an English composer best known for his comic musical opera collaborations with the librettist W. S. Gilbert. His works also include 23 operas, 13 major orchestral works, eight...
by Arthur Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
"St Agnes' Eve" is poem by Alfred Tennyson set to music by Arthur Sullivan in 1880. Sullivan was an English composer best known for his comic musical opera collaborations with the librettist W. S. Gilbert. His works also include 23 operas, 13 major orchestral works, eight choral works and...
Women Make Noise
Girl Bands from Motown to the Modern
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
‘When was the last time you heard an all-girl band on the radio? Why don’t all-girl bands get attention they deserve?’
In Women Make Noise musicians, journalists, promoters and fans excavate the hidden story of the all-girl band: from country belles of the 20s–40s and girl groups of...
Keyboard Lessons for Beginners
Teach Yourself How to Play Keyboard (Free Video Available)
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Teach yourself how to play keyboard with our easy keyboard lessons for beginners.***Comes with online access to free keyboard videos and audio demonstrating all examples. See and hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along with the backing band. Also includes music score and keyboard animation...
Fingerstyle Guitar Classics Volume 1
Teach Yourself How to Play Classical Guitar Sheet Music (Free Audio Available)
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
Teach yourself how to play classical guitar sheet music with our easy fingerstyle guitar masterpieces for beginners.***Comes with online access to free audio demonstrating all examples. Hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along.***"Start playing the classics right away. I love this book...
Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing
Music in the Worlds of Joss Whedon
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
When writer and director Joss Whedon created the character Buffy the Vampire Slayer, he could hardly have expected the resulting academic interest in his work. Yet almost six years after the end of Buffy on television, Buffy studies—and academic work on Whedon's expanding oeuvre—continue to grow....
by Leigh Landy
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Making Music with Sounds offers a creative introduction to the art of making sound-based music. It introduces the elements of making compositions with sounds and facilitates creativity in school age children, with the activities primarily for 11-14 year old students. It can also be used by people...
Resounding Afro Asia
Interracial Music and the Politics of Collaboration
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Cultural hybridity is a celebrated hallmark of U.S. American music and identity. Yet hybrid music is all too often marked -and marketed - under a single racial label. Resounding Afro Asia examines music projects that counter this convention; these projects instead foreground racial mixture in players,...
Queerness in Pop Music
Aesthetics, Gender Norms, and Temporality
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
This book investigates the phenomenon of queering in popular music and video, interpreting the music of numerous pop artists, styles, and idioms. The focus falls on artists, such as Lady Gaga, Madonna, Boy George, Diana Ross, Rufus Wainwright, David Bowie, Azealia Banks, Zebra Katz, Freddie Mercury,...