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by Sara Peacock
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Musicians often seek jobs in performing or teaching, but in addition there are a wealth of exciting opportunities in the music industry that music students tend to know very little about.
Careers In Music explores what is available and offers insights into how different skills and personalities...
by Ren
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
You DO NOT need to be a star to Make Money in Music!
Yes, you heard right, but let’s say it again. Louder, just to make sure. YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE A STAR TO MAKE MONEY IN MUSIC! The world is full of successful working musicians - a silent majority who make very good incomes having turned...
The Entrepreneurial Muse
Inspiring Your Career in Classical Music
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
The Entrepreneurial Muse: Inspiring your Career in Classical Music explores principles of entrepreneurship in a classical music setting, inspiring students, emerging professionals, and educators alike to gain the broader perspective and strategic understanding required to negotiate the complex and...
The Unstarving Musician’s Guide to Getting Paid Gigs
How to Get Booked and Paid What You’re Worth, Over and Over Again!
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Are you struggling to get gigs that pay, to get the attention of venues, or to effectively market yourself and your music?
Drummer vocalist Roberto R Hernandez (aka Robonzo) shares the methods and tactics he’s used to keep himself and his bands consistently booked and well compensated for...
by Brittany Bexton
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2015
"The Venue Book" is essentially the encyclopedia of country music venues. It boasts contact information for more than 3,500 venues nationwide. "The Venue Book" has venue listings for every state in the US, and D.C. Many venues have in depth information including capacity, a direct...
by Gilli Moon
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2015
There is a song; and there is a Hit Song. Which one do you want to write? Are you a Hit Song Maker? This book analyzes what is a “Hit Song”, covering my Hit Song Recipe - a collection of special ingredients that makes up the “Hit Song” sauce. This analysis will help you as a songwriter gain...
The Akron Sound
The Heyday of the Midwest's Punk Capital
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Music made in Akron symbolized an attitude more so than a singular sound. Crafted by kids hell-bent on not following their parents into the rubber plants, the music was an intentional antithesis of Top 40 radio. Call it punk or call it new wave, but in a short few years, major labels signed Chrissie...
Follow the Music
The Life and High Times of Elektra Records in the Great Years of American Pop Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Jac Holzman started his own record company when he was all of nineteen. His total assets amounted to a handful of dollars, a brain fizzing with ideas, and a heart pumping with naive late-teenage hope. He christened his label Elektra.
Twenty years later, Jac had brought five...
Sound Man
A Life Recording Hits with The Rolling Stones, The Who, Led Zeppelin, The Eagles , Eric Clapton, The Faces . . .
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Born just outside London in 1942, Glyn Johns was sixteen years old at the dawn of rock and roll. His big break as a producer came on the Steve Miller Band’s debut album, Children of the Future, and he went on to engineer or produce iconic albums for the best in the business: Abbey Road with the...
by Martyn Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2016
Are you struggling to grow an audience? Is it impossible to make people pay for your music?This book is for musicians like you. Martyn Wilson has years of experience as a DIY musician, working with industry professionals in multiple roles. In this book, he introduces the basic ideas behind music...
by Xavier Dotson
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
From A to Zay: The Indie Guide to Music Production is years of successes and failures, and how you can duplicate the things I did right and avoid the things I did wrong. Let's get ready to go down the list of everything you need to know about music production (and perhaps life) from A to Zay. - Xavier...
The Life and Death of Classical Music
Featuring the 100 Best and 20 Worst Recordings Ever Made
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
In this compulsively readable, fascinating, and provocative guide to classical music, Norman Lebrecht, one of the world’s most widely read cultural commentators tells the story of the rise of the classical recording industry from Caruso’s first notes to the heyday of Bernstein, Glenn Gould,...
The BeatTips Manual
The Art of Beatmaking, The Hip Hop/Rap Music Tradition, and The Common Composer
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2013
'The BeatTips Manual' (Amir Said) is the definitive study of the art of beatmaking (hip hop production). Brilliantly divided into five major parts - a riveting History part, an extensive Instruction (how-to) part, an insightful Interviews part, which features exclusive interviews with DJ Premier, DJ...
Once Upon a Time in Shaolin
The Untold Story of the Wu-Tang Clan's Million-Dollar Secret Album, the Devaluation of Music, and America's New Public Enemy No. 1
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
The untold story of the world's most controversial album---a surreal tale of secret recordings, the Wu-Tang Clan, baffled customs agents, the world's most hallowed art institutions, and a villain of comic book proportions: Martin Shkreli.
In 2007, the innovative young Wu-Tang producer, Cilvaringz,...