Business Technical category: 711 books
How To Take Your Home Studio Worldwide
The Definitive Guide to Online Music Collaboration
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Recording sessions once meant coordinating a number of elements. Musicians, equipment and schedules were only the tip of the iceberg. There was also the task of finding and booking an available room that met your production needs. On top all this, there was considerable cost to making recordings, most...
by Randall D. Wixen
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
(Book). Since the publication of the first edition in 2005, "The Plain and Simple Guide to Music Publishing" has emerged as the premier guide to the subject. With sufficient depth to be used as a text at major college music industry programs including UCLA, NYU and Northeastern, the book...
by C. Stephen Weaver
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
A detailed “how to” book about negotiating the large print, the fine print, and everything in between which is commonly found in exclusive songwriting agreements. Steve Weaver presents a template exclusive songwriting agreement and then explains what each paragraph of the agreement means (even...
Independence Days
The Story of UK Independent Record Labels
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Collating more than 150 interviews, Independence Days traces the story of the UK independent record label boom from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s, a period which saw a new generation of independent spirits take up the baton and revolutionize the course of popular music. The era's most celebrated...
Unfree Masters
Popular Music and the Politics of Work
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
The widespread perception of singers and musicians as free individuals doing enjoyable and fulfilling work obscures the realities of their occupation. In Unfree Masters Matt Stahl examines recording artists' labor in the music industry as a form of creative work. He begins by considering the television...
Unfair to Genius
The Strange and Litigious Career of Ira B. Arnstein
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
The long and tortured career of Ira B. Arnstein, "the unrivaled king of copyright infringement plaintiffs," opens a curious window into the evolution of copyright law in the United States. As Gary A. Rosen shows in this frequently funny and always entertaining history, the litigious Arnstein was a...
The Arena Concert
Music, Media and Mass Entertainment
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment is the first sustained engagement with what might said to be - in its melding of concert and gathering, in its evolving relationship with digital and social media, in its delivery of event, experience, technology and star - the art form of the...
The Real Destiny's Child
Behind The Music Tales, #6
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
An intimate portrait of Destiny's Child and the girl who would be Queen.
The Real Destiny's Child is one exclusive interview, 66 links to rare music and singles, 8 exclusive photos, and 22 director stills from the "Bootylicious Remix" video.
A revealing eye on the state of the union...
New York Rock
From the Rise of The Velvet Underground to the Fall of CBGB
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
As a city that represents endless possibilities, New York has been the setting for the dawning of new movements, styles, and genres. In the 20th century, the birth of Rock represented a connection between art forms and the city’s socioeconomic, racial, and sexual variants. New York Rock breaks down...
by Michael Morenga
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
Guitar Springboard is an innovative series of tuition guides, allowing you to boost your playing skills and knowledge by concentrating upon key musical areas.
In this edition, discover an entire compendium of melodic ideas through an introductory exploration of harmony. By learning how to assemble...
The Musician's Guide to the Road
A Survival Handbook & All-Access Backstage Pass to Touring
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
An all-access pass to what goes on backstage, onstage, and on the way to the stage. What's a tour bus like? What are the band members saying to each other on stage? Exactly how much sex, how many drugs, how much rock 'n' roll are we talking here? The Musician's Guide to the Road answers all these...
by J. Paul Dyson
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
This indispensable directory is a must-have for anyone wanting to make it in the music industry. It gives you:• Hundreds of record labels• Hundreds of music managers• Indexes by genre, so you can quickly find all the right listings• Access to overseas marketsIt also provides...
by Dominique Blais
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
The main job of an indie artist is to make quality and good sounding music.
There are other things that an artist needs to look into other than working hard to make music. It is also important the indie musician to market his music in order to achieve great success. If you are creating good...
by Sonny Kompanek
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Scoring for film hsa changed dramatically over the past 20 years. With the advent of MIDI sequencers and low-cost recording gear, just about any composer anywhere can score a film. Well-known composer Sonny Kompanek teaches this new film scoring process at the prestigious New York University and now...