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Tell Tchaikovsky the News: Rock 'n' Roll, the Labor Question, and the Musicians' Union, 1942-1968
ISBN: 9780822354758 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For two decades after rock music emerged in the 1940s, the American Federation of Musicians (AFM), the oldest and largest labor union representing professional musicians in the United States and Canada, refused to recognize rock 'n' roll as legitimate music or its performers as skilled musicians. The AFM never actively organized rock 'n' roll musicians, although recruiting them would have been in the union's economic interest. In Tell Tchaikovsky the News, Michael James Roberts argues that the reasons that the union failed to act in its own interest lay in its culture, in the opinions...
For two decades after rock music emerged in the 1940s, the American Federation of Musicians (AFM), the oldest and largest labor union representing pro...
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107,70 |
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Hit Woman
ISBN: 9780989493000 / Angielski / Twarda / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hit Woman is the story of Susan Hamilton s wildly improbable life: from early days as a child prodigy and actor, through heady success on the concert stage, in the boardrooms of Madison Ave. and over the talkback microphones of recording studios all over the world. This personal and most intimate tale is spun in a voice that is fresh, funnier than hell, and always unflinchingly candid even in the face of heartbreaking tragedy and more than one wrenching life/love setback.
The story covers a broad swath of the musical landscape: lessons from the teenage Maestro James Levine in Aspen;... Hit Woman is the story of Susan Hamilton s wildly improbable life: from early days as a child prodigy and actor, through heady success on the concert ...
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Hit Woman
ISBN: 9780989493017 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hit Woman is the story of Susan Hamilton s wildly improbable life: from early days as a child prodigy and actor, through heady success on the concert stage, in the boardrooms of Madison Ave. and over the talkback microphones of recording studios all over the world. This personal and most intimate tale is spun in a voice that is fresh, funnier than hell, and always unflinchingly candid even in the face of heartbreaking tragedy and more than one wrenching life/love setback.
The story covers a broad swath of the musical landscape: lessons from the teenage Maestro James Levine in Aspen;... Hit Woman is the story of Susan Hamilton s wildly improbable life: from early days as a child prodigy and actor, through heady success on the concert ...
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108,54 |
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Music 4.0: A Survival Guide for Making Music in the Internet Age
ISBN: 9781480355149 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. (Music Pro Guide Books & DVDs). 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 How has streaming music impacted the artist and the industry? Who are the new industry players? Why do traditional record labels, television, and radio have increasingly less influence in an artist's success? How should music be marketed and distributed in this new world? How do...
(Music Pro Guide Books & DVDs). Featuring the latest music business and social media concepts as well as brand-new interviews with a variety of the in...
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122,44 |
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Sounds of the Citizens: Dancehall and Community in Jamaica
ISBN: 9780826519788 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dancehall: It's simultaneously a source of raucous energy in the streets of Kingston, Jamaica; a way of life for a group of professional artists and music professionals; and a force of stability and tension within the community. Electronically influenced, relevant to urban Jamaicans, and highly danceable, dancehall music and culture forms a core of popular entertainment in the nation. As Anne Galvin reveals in Sounds of the Citizens, the rhythms of dancehall music reverberate in complicated ways throughout the lives of countless Jamaicans.
Galvin highlights the unique alliance... Dancehall: It's simultaneously a source of raucous energy in the streets of Kingston, Jamaica; a way of life for a group of professional artists and m...
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545,52 |
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The Music Producer's Handbook: Includes Online Resource
ISBN: 9781495045226 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. All the secrets to becoming a music producer and successful producing just about any kind of music genre
All the secrets to becoming a music producer and successful producing just about any kind of music genre
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171,42 |
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Voiceless: The Journal of an Underground Starving Artist
ISBN: 9781432787202 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Whatever happens to a dream destroyed? In this authors opinion, you write about it. Aspiring Hip Hop artist and founder of the group Dahavknotz (the have nots) turned author, Michael Barclift writes a heart wrenching tale of growing up with a dream that dies a slow and painful death due to a combination of factors. After having such a promising start to his career and being crowned as one of the most talented and profound artist by industry peers and competitors, lifestyle choices and decisions eventually wore him down until he began to question the value of life itself. At a crossroads...
Whatever happens to a dream destroyed? In this authors opinion, you write about it. Aspiring Hip Hop artist and founder of the group Dahavknotz (the h...
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90,42 |
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Unlocking Creativity: A Producer's Guide to Making Music & Art
ISBN: 9781480355132 / Angielski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Record producer Michael Beinhorn reveals how to deal with interpersonal issues record producers face when they work with artists one on one or in small groups.
Record producer Michael Beinhorn reveals how to deal with interpersonal issues record producers face when they work with artists one on one or in smal...
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122,44 |
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This Business of Songwriting: Revised 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9780615755052 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Writing great songs is not enough. To make money, songwriters need a firm, realistic grasp of how songs generate income, and how the songwriting business works. This Business of Songwriting is the first book to demystify the process of doing business as a songwriter. Author Jason Blume is a songwriter, music publisher, and educator whose songs are on albums that have sold more than 50 million copies, topped international charts, and are in top television shows and movies. He starts by defining terms and explaining the mechanics of how songwriters generate and collect royalties. The functions...
Writing great songs is not enough. To make money, songwriters need a firm, realistic grasp of how songs generate income, and how the songwriting busin...
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105,00 |
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What I Wish I Knew Before I Moved to Hollywood (2nd Edition)
ISBN: 9780981898346 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The bestselling updated & expanded second edition now available in paperback at 36% off of its $19.95 cover price. "This book offers insights to help you pursue your dreams with your eyes wide open. Success in Hollywood takes great patience and determination. Knowing this helps you prepare for each battle you face along the way." -James Pickens Jr., Actor, ABC's Grey's Anatomy Oprah Winfrey and dozens of motivational speakers say, "Follow your bliss (what makes you happy) and the money will come." This may be true, but what they don't tell you is how long it may take for the money to come....
The bestselling updated & expanded second edition now available in paperback at 36% off of its $19.95 cover price. "This book offers insights to help ...
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52,40 |
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The Pensado Papers: The Rise of Visionary Online Television Sensation Pensado's Place
ISBN: 9781480345690 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. (Music Pro Guide Books & DVDs). On his top-rated YouTube show, Pensado's Place, first-call mixing engineer Dave Pensado (Beyonce, Christina Aguilera, Kelly Clarkson, Mariah Carey, Elton John, Michael Jackson, and more ) discusses a never-ending stream of important music and audio recording topics. While sharing the importance of relentless perseverance and tenacity in the pursuit of success in the world of recording studios and music producers, The Pensado Papers is also a story of incredible, almost unbelievable redemption. See from behind the scenes, the journey that Dave Pensado has shared...
(Music Pro Guide Books & DVDs). On his top-rated YouTube show, Pensado's Place, first-call mixing engineer Dave Pensado (Beyonce, Christina Aguilera, ...
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146,94 |
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Popular Music Industries and the State: Policy Notes
ISBN: 9780415824514 / Angielski / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume studies the relationships between government and the popular music industries, comparing three Anglophone nations: Scotland, New Zealand and Australia. At a time when issues of globalization and locality are seldom out of the news, musicians, fans, governments, and industries are forced to reconsider older certainties about popular music activity and their roles in production and consumption circuits. The decline of multinational recording companies, and the accompanying rise of promotion firms such as Live Nation, exemplifies global shifts in infrastructure, profits and power.... This volume studies the relationships between government and the popular music industries, comparing three Anglophone nations: Scotland, New Zealan... |
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759,15 |
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Roy Cape: A Life on the Calypso and Soca Bandstand
ISBN: 9780822357605 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Roy Cape is a Trinidadian saxophonist active as a band musician for more than fifty years and as a bandleader for more than thirty. He is known throughout the islands and the Caribbean diasporas in North America and Europe. Part ethnography, part biography, and part Caribbean music history, Roy Cape is about the making of reputation and circulation, and about the meaning of labor and work ethics. An experiment in storytelling, it joins Roy's voice with that of ethnomusicologist Jocelyne Guilbault. The idea for the book emerged from an exchange they had while discussing Roy's journey as...
Roy Cape is a Trinidadian saxophonist active as a band musician for more than fifty years and as a bandleader for more than thirty. He is known throug...
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479,98 |
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Roy Cape: A Life on the Calypso and Soca Bandstand
ISBN: 9780822357742 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Roy Cape is a Trinidadian saxophonist active as a band musician for more than fifty years and as a bandleader for more than thirty. He is known throughout the islands and the Caribbean diasporas in North America and Europe. Part ethnography, part biography, and part Caribbean music history, Roy Cape is about the making of reputation and circulation, and about the meaning of labor and work ethics. An experiment in storytelling, it joins Roy's voice with that of ethnomusicologist Jocelyne Guilbault. The idea for the book emerged from an exchange they had while discussing Roy's journey as...
Roy Cape is a Trinidadian saxophonist active as a band musician for more than fifty years and as a bandleader for more than thirty. He is known throug...
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137,09 |
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Fortune's Fool: Edgar Bronfman, Jr., Warner Music, and an Industry in Crisis
ISBN: 9780743269995 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1999, when Napster made music available free online, the music industry found itself in a fight for its life. A decade later, the most important and misunderstood story—and the one with the greatest implications for both music lovers and media companies—is how the music industry has failed to remake itself. In Fortune’s Fool, Fred Goodman, the author of The Mansion on the Hill, shows how this happened by presenting the singular history of Edgar M. Bronfman Jr., the controversial heir to Seagram’s, who, after dismantling his family’s empire and fortune, made a high-stakes gamble...
In 1999, when Napster made music available free online, the music industry found itself in a fight for its life. A decade later, the most important an...
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80,88 |
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Simply Thrilled: The Preposterous Story of Postcard Records
ISBN: 9780091958251 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. They had just a few hundred pounds, one band missing a drummer, a sock drawer for an office, more dreams than sense, and not a clue between them how to run a record company. But when Alan Horne and Edwyn Collins decided to start their own label from a shabby Glasgow flat in 1979, nobody was going to stand in their way. Postcard Records was the mad, makeshift, and quite preposterous result. Launching the careers of Orange Juice, Aztec Camera, and cult heroes Josef K, the self-styled "Sound of Young Scotland" stuck it to the London music biz and, quite by accident, kick-started the 1980s indie...
They had just a few hundred pounds, one band missing a drummer, a sock drawer for an office, more dreams than sense, and not a clue between them how t...
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103,06 |
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House of Hits: The Story of Houston's Gold Star/Sugarhill Recording Studios
ISBN: 9780292763180 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Founded in a working-class neighborhood in southeast Houston in 1941, Gold Star/SugarHill Recording Studios is a major independent studio that has produced a multitude of influential hit records in an astonishingly diverse range of genres. Its roster of recorded musicians includes Lightnin' Hopkins, George Jones, Willie Nelson, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Junior Parker, Clifton Chenier, Sir Douglas Quintet, 13th Floor Elevators, Freddy Fender, Kinky Friedman, Ray Benson, Guy Clark, Lucinda Williams, Beyonce and Destiny's Child, and many, many more. In House of Hits, Andy Bradley... Founded in a working-class neighborhood in southeast Houston in 1941, Gold Star/SugarHill Recording Studios is a major independent studio that has ... |
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137,09 |
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"The Music Business is Corrupt... or Maybe You Just Can't Sing?": How to Take Responsibility for Your Struggling Career
ISBN: 9781502824646 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. LET'S KEEP IT 100% REAL: WHEN THERE'S NO ONE LEFT TO BLAME, MAYBE ITS YOU "The Music Business is Corrupt... or Maybe You Just Can't Sing?" is a no-nonsense, self-help book for struggling singers, musicians and anyone that feels as if something or someone is holding them back. Designed to candidly but lovingly teach you how to "check yourself" first, get your act together and take responsibility for your mistakes, this one-of-a-kind career guide pulls no punches in saying to your face what others are saying about you behind your back. "The Music Business is Corrupt...or Maybe You Just Can't...
LET'S KEEP IT 100% REAL: WHEN THERE'S NO ONE LEFT TO BLAME, MAYBE ITS YOU "The Music Business is Corrupt... or Maybe You Just Can't Sing?" is a no-no...
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40,43 |
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Maximizing Music Xray
ISBN: 9780977751228 / Angielski / Miękka / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ---The MARKET------------------------------------- SONGWRITERS - MUSICIANS - MUSIC BUSINESS PROFESSIONALS - Music STUDENTS If MUSIC IS A VIBRANT FORCE in your vicinity, or your outlet is located near a: college, university, music school, music store, recording studio YOU SHOULD STOCK THIS BOOK. There are hundreds of thousands of songwriters ready and anxious to buy it Music Xray is a rapidly expanding international marketplace. It CONNECTS musicians who want to SELL their work to record labels, film, and commercial users who NEED - and want to BUY - MUSIC. Music Xray gives writers the thing...
---The MARKET------------------------------------- SONGWRITERS - MUSICIANS - MUSIC BUSINESS PROFESSIONALS - Music STUDENTS If MUSIC IS A VIBRANT FORCE...
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56,06 |
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Music and Capitalism: A History of the Present
ISBN: 9780226311975 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. iTunes. Spotify. Pandora. With these brief words one can map the landscape of music today, but these aren't musicians, songs, or anything else actually musical-they are products and brands. In this book, Timothy D. Taylor explores just how pervasively capitalism has shaped music over the last few decades. Examining changes in the production, distribution, and consumption of music, he offers an incisive critique of the music industry's shift in focus from creativity to profits, as well as stories of those who are laboring to find and make musical meaning in the shadows of the mainstream...
iTunes. Spotify. Pandora. With these brief words one can map the landscape of music today, but these aren't musicians, songs, or anything else actuall...
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134,04 |