Music industry Books
Transcript Verlag Curating Contemporary Music Festivals – A New
Book SynopsisContemporary music, like other arts, is dealing with the rise of "curators" laying claim to everything from festivals to playlists - but what are they and what do they do anyway? Drawing from backgrounds ranging from curatorial studies to festival studies and musicology, Brandon Farnsworth lays out a theory for understanding curatorial practices in contemporary music, and how they could be a solution to the field's diminishing social relevance. The volume focuses on two case studies, the Munich Biennale for New Music Theatre, and the Maerzmusik Festival at the Berliner Festspiele, putting them in a transdisciplinary history of curatorial practice, and showing what music curatorial practice can be.
£42.50
Transcript Verlag Sponsorship Culture in the German University
Book SynopsisMusic festivals have become important events for people to experience music collectively and take a break from their everyday lives. Companies and institutions like to use music festivals as opportunities for advertising their products and services through sponsorship. Dominik Nösner examines professional stakeholder's assessments of the market as well as patterns of existing procedural elements of sponsorship culture, factors determining existing communication and decision-making culture and interrelations between sponsors and audience with emphasis on university popular music festivals. Building on that, he further explores motivational constructs for popular music festival attendance via a survey study.
£46.74
Penguin Putnam Inc How Music Got Free
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MIT Press Ltd Spotify Teardown Inside the Black Box of
Book SynopsisAn innovative investigation of the inner workings of Spotify that traces the transformation of audio files into streamed experience.Spotify provides a streaming service that has been welcomed as disrupting the world of music. Yet such disruption always comes at a price. Spotify Teardown contests the tired claim that digital culture thrives on disruption. Borrowing the notion of “teardown” from reverse-engineering processes, in this book a team of five researchers have playfully disassembled Spotify's product and the way it is commonly understood.Spotify has been hailed as the solution to illicit downloading, but it began as a partly illicit enterprise that grew out of the Swedish file-sharing community. Spotify was originally praised as an innovative digital platform but increasingly resembles a media company in need of regulation, raising questions about the ways in which such cultural content as songs, books, and films are now typically made availa
£15.19
The History Press Ltd Decca Studios and Klooks Kleek
Book SynopsisWith artists including David Bowie, The Rolling Stones, Tom Jones and The Moody Blues at Decca, and Ronnie Scott, Cream, Fleetwood Mac, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Elton John, Rod Stewart and Stevie Wonder at Klooks, this book records a unique musical heritage.
£9.49
Facts On File Career Opportunities in the Music Industry Career
Book SynopsisOffers information on more than 90 specific jobs, including job duties, salary ranges, skill and education requirements, helpful organizations, and tips for entry. This title includes salary ranges and employment opportunities, as well as comprehensive, appendixes of organizations, periodicals, associations, schools, and resources.Trade Review"...a practical and concise guide...a valuable resource...recommended." - American Reference Books Annual "...organized, comprehensive, and easy to use...Highly recommended." - Choice"
£17.06
Hal Leonard The Studio Musicians Handbook Technical Reference
Book SynopsisBobby Owsinski is a renowned engineer and producer whose bestselling books on recording and audio production have made him a household name among home studio owners.Studio session and touring bassist Paul Ill has worked with a variety of bands and artists, including Mick Taylor (x Rolling Stones'), 'Wayne Kramer (x MC5'), 'Earl Slick (x David Bowie'), 'and Julian Lennon.
£33.25
Orion Publishing Co Access All Areas
Book SynopsisFirst as a journalist and then a publicist at Warner Brothers Records for nearly twenty years, Barbara Charone has experienced, first-hand, the changes in the cultural landscape. Access All Areas is a personal, insightful and humorous memoir packed with stories of being on the cultural frontline, from first writing press releases on a typewriter driven by Tip Ex, then as a press officer for heavy metal bands taking the bus up to Donnington Festival with coffee, croissants and the much more popular sulfate. To taking on Madonna, an unknown girl from Detroit, and telling Smash Hits 'you don't have to run the piece if the single doesn't chart', and becoming a true pioneer in music, Charone continues to work with the biggest names in music, including Depeche Mode, Robert Plant, Foo Fighters and Mark Ronson at her agency MBCPR. The story of how a music-loving, budding journalist from a Chicago suburb became the defining music publicist ofTrade ReviewBarbara is the quintessential force of nature. In this great memoir her insatiable thirst for beauty and adventure is fabulously quenched, be it by great music, interesting people or ultimately a fine rosé, all for the reader to sit back and enjoy. Of course, having been in the right place at the right time also helps, and every day I thank my lucky stars we crossed paths years ago and I was permitted to join her on such a fabulous adventure. -- Rufus WainwrightFrom Keith Richards to Madonna to Mark Ronson, the inimitable BC is a music industry legend and Access All Areas is the story of a life like no other -- Alexis PetridisBarbara Charone had a massive role in shaping my career over the past 15 years and she's one of the most adored figures in the music industry for good reason. Access All Areas is a warm, funny, boozy take on the last 40 years of the British music industry from the perspective of someone who helped shape it but is also obviously still a massive fan at heart. Her teenager-like enthusiasm for every project and artist she's ever worked beams from very page and as a music trivia junky, I lived for all the 80's Smash Hits-era insider information . . . This book rules -- Mark RonsonI loved this book! Smart, sharp and hilarious -- Suggs
£9.49
Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation Jazz for Young People Vol 2 a Teachers Resouce
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£33.74
University of Massachusetts Press The Piracy Crusade: How the Music Industry's War
Book SynopsisIn the decade and a half since Napster first emerged, forever changing the face of digital culture, the claim that internet pirates killed the music industry has become so ubiquitous that it is treated as common knowledge. Piracy is a scourge on legitimate businesses and hard-working artists, we are told, a cybercrime similar to identity fraud or even terrorism. In The Piracy Crusade, Aram Sinnreich critiques the notion of piracy as a myth perpetuated by today's cultural cartels the handful of companies that dominate the film, software, and especially music industries. As digital networks have permeated our social environment, they have offered vast numbers of people the opportunity to experiment with innovative cultural and entrepreneurial ideas predicated on the belief that information should be shared widely. This has left the media cartels, whose power has historically resided in their ability to restrict the flow of cultural information, with difficult choices: adapt to this new environment, fight the changes tooth and nail, or accept obsolescence. Their decision to fight has resulted in ever stronger copyright laws and the aggressive pursuit of accused infringers. Yet the most dangerous legacy of this piracy crusade is not the damage inflicted on promising start-ups or on well-intentioned civilians caught in the crosshairs of file-sharing litigation. Far more troubling, Sinnreich argues, are the broader implications of copyright laws and global treaties that sacrifice free speech and privacy in the name of combating the phantom of piracy policies that threaten to undermine the foundations of democratic society.
£22.75
Grey House Publishing Inc Careers in the Music Industry
Book SynopsisA musician might start by playing guitar in their teenaged bedroom, but the machinery behind their career is significant. Songwriters, composers, singers, all levels of musicians, and conductors train with individual teachers and often attend arts and music schools. Performance spaces managers and booking agents, sound engineers, promoters, and traveling crews are all crucial in bringing live performances to their audiences.On the business side, talent and business managers guide careers, and entertainment attorneys review contracts. The evolving recording business hosts a variety of careers as vinyl recording reemerge, and streaming platforms take the place of live performances due to the pandemic. Musicians in recording and digital media can also work on a range of projects such as recording radio and TV commercials or video game and film scores. Career options in the music industry are more varied than ever before, and technology just expands the field.
£99.20
BenBella Books 21-Hit Wonder: Flopping My Way to the Top of the
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£21.59
Microcosm Publishing Why to Resist Streaming Music & How
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Equinox Publishing Ltd She's at the Controls: Sound Engineering,
Book SynopsisShe’s at the Controls gives a socio-historical examination of the roles of women studio professionals in the UK music industry. At the heart of the book are interviews conducted over six years with 30 female studio practitioners at different stages of their careers and working in different genres of popular music including reggae, hip hop and pop. The edited interviews are followed by an in-depth exploration of the often unseen and unacknowledged gender rules of music industry practice (both personal and technical) that underpin popular music etiquette. A range of supporting material from academic works to technical publications and popular music journalism is used to expand and critique the discourse. She’s at the Controls will appeal to everyone interested in new developments in the music industry, as it recalibrates itself in response to current challenges to its traditional gender stereotypes.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Starting Out: Early Engagements with Sound, Music and Technology 2. Becoming Professional: Entering the Music Industry 3. Specialisation and Entrepreneurship 4. The Workplace Experience and Relationships with Clients and Colleagues 5. Male Culture and Studio Territory 6. Gender Ventriloquism: Song Writing, Production and the Mediation of Women’s Voices 7. Fighting Back Against Stereotyping: The Case of EDM 8. Education, Inspiration and Potential for Change 9. Conclusion Bibliography Producer Biographies
£23.70
Agenda Publishing The Economics of Music
Book SynopsisThe music industry is one of the most dynamic and fascinating business sectors. Its business model has had to evolve and adapt to continually changing technologies that impact at every level from distribution to artist management. Its latest challenge has been the closure of live music venues during the Covid-19 pandemic. The second edition of this much used introduction to the economic workings of the music business has been updated to include analysis of the impact of the pandemic as well as new trends in the industry, such as the increasing dominance of tech companies and big data and the growing importance of collective management organizations as market players, which has impacted on new business contracts. At a time when live performance outstrips music sales as the primary source of income for today’s musicians, this new edition also examines how different stakeholder positions have shifted. The book remains a rigorous presentation of the industry’s business model, the core sectors of publishing, recording and live music, and the complex myriad of licensing and copyright arrangements that underpin the industry. The revenue streams of recording companies are analysed alongside the income stream of artists to show how changing formats and distribution platforms impact both industry profit margins and artists’ earnings.Trade ReviewComprehensive and well documented, drawing on the author's prodigious knowledge of the industry. -- David Throsby, Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsIntroduction1. A short economic history of the music business2. Microeconomics of music: music as an economic good3. The economics of music copyright4. Music publishing5. Sound recording6. Live music7. Secondary music markets8. Music labour markets9. Economics of the digital music businessConclusionGlossary
£71.25
HarperCollins Publishers Threepenny Memoir
Book Synopsis''Looking back at The Libertines is like catching flashes of sunlight between buildings as you race by on a train. An old film reel where the spools are weathered and worn, leaving empty frames on the screen''In the final years of the last millennium, Carl Barat and Pete Doherty forged a deep musical bond, formed The Libertines and set sail for Arcadia in the good ship Albion; a decade later, Carl would emerge from his second band, the Dirty Pretty Things, after one of the most significant and turbulent rock ''n'' roll trajectories of recent times. Threepenny Memoir navigates the choppy waters of memory, and gives an inside look at life in the eye of the storm, chronicling how a pair of romantics armed with little more than poetry and a punk attitude inspired adoration in millions worldwide and proceeded to tear apart everything they had.With unflinching honesty but real warmth, Carl who has recently performed with The Libertines for the first time since 2004, and released a solo aTrade Review‘Unputdownable’ Q Magazine ‘Very honest, likeable…an appealing roughness’ Metro
£999.99
HarperCollins Publishers Facing the Other Way
Book SynopsisThe first official account of the iconic record label.An NME Book of the Year 2013 A Rough Trade Book of the Year 2013 A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2013This Mortal Coil, Birthday Party, Bauhaus, Cocteau Twins, Pixies, Throwing Muses, Breeders, Dead Can Dance, Lisa Germano, Kristin Hersh, Belly, Red House Painters.Just a handful of the bands and artists who started out recording for 4AD, a record label founded by Ivo Watts-Russell and Peter Kent in 1979, a label which went on to be one of the most influential of the modern era.Combining the unique tastes of Watts-Russell and the striking design aesthetic of Vaughan Oliver, 4AD records were recognisable by their look as much their sound. In this comprehensive account concentrating on the label's first two decades (up to the point that Watts-Russell left), music journalist Martin Aston explores the fascinating story with unique access to all the key players and pretty much every artist who released a record on 4AD duringTrade Review‘4AD get the lavish label history they deserve’ – MOJO ‘Aston has impressive access to some of rock’s most reclusive figures’ – Q ‘The book is an exquisite reflection of 4AD itself—extravagant, atmospheric, and rich in texture and timbre.’ – PITCHFORK ‘Facing The Other Way represents one of the greatest stories to emerge from rock and roll's modern history’ – DROWNED IN SOUND ‘The conviction of Aston's storytelling blows dust off the needle so that those records and their often magical beauties are dragged out to be admired once again… Compelling stuff’ – MOUTH MAGAZINE 'Martin Aston's 600-page chronicle is a suitable extravagant enterprise' – GUARDIAN “A fanatically scholarly account of the definitive art-pop label of the 1980s.” – THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
£999.99
Oxford University Press Inc Inventing the Recording The Phonograph and
Book SynopsisInventing the Recording focuses on the decades in which recorded sound went from a technological possibility to a commercial and cultural artefact, through the analysis of a specific and unique national context: Spain.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Imagining the phonograph, 1877-1888 Chapter 2: Travelling phonographs, 1888-1900 Chapter 3: Inventing the recording: gabinetes fonográficos and early commercial phonography in Madrid, 1896-1905 Chapter 4: Science, urban space and early phonography in Barcelona, 1898-1914 Chapter 5: Gabinetes fonográficos in Valencia, 1899-1901 Chapter 6: (Dis)embodied voices: recording singers, 1896-1914 Chapter 7: Consuming and collecting records in Spain, 1896-1905 Conclusion Table 1 Table 2 Table 3 Table 4 Bibliography
£53.20
Oxford University Press Inc The Savvy Musician 2.0
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£113.08
Back Bay Books Set the Night on Fire
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Taylor & Francis Eastern European Music Industries and Policies after the Fall of Communism From State Control to Free Market Routledge Russian and East European Music and Culture
Book SynopsisDuring the last thirty years Eastern Europe has been a place of radical political, economic, and social transformation, and these changes have affected the cultural industries of its countries. This volume consists of twelve chapters by leading international researchers. Stories are documented of various organisations that once dominated the âcommunist music industriesâ â such as state-owned record companies, music festivals, and collecting societies. The strategies employed by artists and industries to join international music markets after the fall of communism are explained and evaluated. Political and economic transformations that coincided with the advent of digitalisation and the Internet intensified the changes. All these issues posed challenges both to record labels and artists who, after adjusting to the rules of the free-market economy, were faced with the falling record sales of records caused by the advent of new communication technologies. This book examines how these processes have all affected the music scene, industries, and markets in various Eastern European countries.Table of ContentsPart I: Introduction1. Contextualising research on the Eastern European music industriesPatryk Galuszka2. Creating a market economy in Eastern Europe: Economic reform as the central theme of the transitionTomasz LegiedzPart II: Russia3. Piracy as an institutionalised social practice in Soviet and post-Soviet RussiaMarco Biasioli4. ‘We have no music industry!’ Exploring the context of post-Soviet music making through the lens of contemporary Swedo-Russian collaborationsIngrid M TolstadPart III: Central Europe5. Socialist riches to capitalist rags: The disintegration of the GDR music industry during German reunificationSven Kube6. Collective management of copyright during communism and transition – A case study of the Society of Authors ZAiKSAnna Pluszyńska7. The National Festival of Polish Song in Opole: The transformation of legal, economic, and political circumstances over fifty years of the Polish music industryKatarzyna Korzeniewska 8. Pohoda: the importance of Slovakia’s greatest festivalPeter Barrer 9. Managing the Eastern European position in the digital era: music industry showcase events and popular music export in HungaryEmília BarnaPart IV: Southeast Europe10. The Romanian music scene: The social economy of pop music in the post-socialist periodElena Trifan11. Come visit (our past) again: How municipalities encourage retro rock culture on the Bulgarian music sceneGergana Rayzhekova12. The Yugoslav and post Yugoslav alternative rock canon presented in the music pressJulijana Papazova
£135.00
Taylor & Francis Beyond the Conservatory Model
Book SynopsisAmid enormous changes in higher education, audience and music listener preferences, and the relevant career marketplace, music faculty are increasingly aware of the need to reimagine classical music performance training for current and future students. But how can faculty and administrators, under urgent pressure to act, be certain that their changes are effective, strategic, and beneficial for students and institutions? In this provocative yet measured book, Michael Stepniak and Peter Sirotin address these questions with perspectives rooted in extensive experience as musicians, educators, and arts leaders. Building on a multidimensional analysis of core issues and drawing upon interviews with leaders from across the performing arts and higher education music fields, Stepniak and Sirotin scrutinize arguments for and against radical change, illuminating areas of unavoidable challenge as well as areas of possibility and hope. An essential read for education leaders contemplating how cTrade Review"Beyond the Conservatory Model provides a badly-needed insiders’ diagnosis—and many thoughtful remedies—for the anachronisms that many classical music conservatories have become. … Stepniak and Sirotin encourage us to think beyond the musical conservatism and homogeneity and instead give priority to helping students find their own ‘powerfully authentic and individual musical voice’ in pursuit of rekindling a human connection with an audience." — Douglas Dempster, Dean of the College of Fine Arts, The University of Texas at Austin, USA"Beyond the Conservatory Model speaks truth to power about the challenges (and potential opportunities) in higher education music study. Stepniak’s and Sirotin’s vision of student outcomes particularly resonated with me, offering practical solutions to reinvent how we train and prepare music students for the professional world. …This should be mandatory reading for all NASM/CMS members."— Kendra Whitlock Ingram, President and CEO, Marcus Performing Arts Center, Milwaukee, USA"This is a much-needed breath of fresh fire to the discussion surrounding the training of the next generation of ‘classical’ music performance majors. … Michael Stepniak and Peter Sirotin have compiled a brief and cogent examination as to just how underserved so many of these students are by a curriculum that was designed generations ago for an industry that has evolved, moved, died, changed gears, and continues to baffle even seasoned professionals. However, not giving in to mere despair or relying on the notion that the superiority of the art will win the day for the students, they have actually accumulated data from industry and academic professionals and given precise recommendations while acknowledging the inherent difficulty for curricular change at many institutions."— Daniel Graser, Saxophonist, The Sinta Quartet, and Lecturer in Music, Oakland University, Michigan, USA"I can’t imagine a more thoroughly researched or better written resource to guide higher education through the vital work of reimagining today’s music performance degree."— Andrew Hitz, Host of "The Entrepreneurial Musician" and "The Brass Junkies" podcasts, former tuba player for Boston BrassTable of ContentsSeries Editor's Introduction1. Beyond Beauty, Brilliance, and Expression: Musicianship and Reconnecting with the General Public2. Gathering Insights From the Field: How the Classical Music Marketplace Is Changing, and What That Change Means for the Training that Students Need3. Why This Change Is Unusually Difficult: Three Specific Factors May Be Thwarting the Will and Ability of Music Leaders to Change Performance Training Models4. Making Change That CountsAppendix: Select Readings on Leadership, and Leading Change in Higher EducationIndex
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Taylor & Francis Spotification of Popular Culture in the Field of Popular Communication
Book SynopsisThis edited collection considers various meanings of the Spotification of music and other media. Specifically, it replies to the editorâs call to address the changes in media cultures and industries accompanying the transition to streaming media and media services. Streaming media services have become part of daily life all over the world, with Spotify, in particular, inheriting and reconfiguring characteristics of older ways of publishing, distributing, and consuming media.The contributors look to the broader community of music, media, and cultural researchers to spell out some of the implications of the Spotification of music and popular culture. These include changes in personal media consumption and production, educational processes, and the work of media industries. Interdisciplinary scholarship on commercial digital distribution is needed more than ever to illuminate the qualitative changes to production, distribution, and consumption accompanying streaming music and teTable of Contents1. Lost in spotify: folksonomy and wayfinding functions in spotify’s interface and companion apps2. Promises and Pitfalls: The Two-Faced Nature of Streaming and Social Media Platforms for Beirut-Based Independent Musicians3. Beyond the black box in music streaming: the impact of recommendation systems upon artists4. Revenue, access, and engagement via the in-house curated Spotify playlist in Australia 5. Metrics and Decision-Making in Music Streaming6. Digital music gatekeeping: a study on the impact of Spotify playlists and Youtube channels on the Brazilian music industryDani Gurgel, Luli Radfahrer, Alexandre Regattieri Bessa, Daniel Torres Guinezi and Daniel Cukier7. Organizing music, organizing gender: algorithmic culture and Spotify recommendations8. What Do We Do with These CDs? Transitional Experiences from Physical Music Media Purchases to Streaming Service Subscriptions
£135.00
Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Companion to Applied Musicology
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Companion to Applied Musicology brings together academics, artist-researchers, and practitioners to provide readers with an extensive and authoritative overview of applied musicology.Once a field that addressed music's socio-political or performative contexts, applied musicology today encompasses study and practice in areas as diverse as psychology, ecomusicology, organology, forensic musicology, music therapy, health and well-being, and other public-oriented musicologies. These rapid advances have created a fast-changing field whose scholarship and activities tend to take place in isolation from each other. This volume addresses that shortcoming, bringing together a wide-ranging survey of current approaches.Featuring 39 authors, The Routledge Companion to Applied Musicology falls into five partsDefining and Theorising Applied Musicology; Public Engagement; New Approaches and Research Methods; Representation and Inclusion; and Musicology in/Table of ContentsList of FiguresList of ContributorsIntroduction Chris DromeyPart I. Defining and Theorising Applied Musicology1. From Spitta to Seeger: Early Theories of Applied Musicology Malik Sharif 2. Musicology’s Applied Foundations (or, How Music was Musealised) Miloš Zapletal and Chris Dromey3. The Late Nineteenth-Century Concert as Applied Musicology Natasha Loges4. “Applied” before Musicology? George Grove, Programme Notes, and the Dictionary Bruno Bower5. Phenomenology, Practice-led Research, and Applied Musicology Nancy November6. The Locations of Musical Meaning and Subjectivity Alastair WilliamsPart II. Public Engagement7. Shaping the Narrative: Musicology for a Public Leah Broad8. Exhibiting Ethnomusicology: Curation Across Cultures and Disciplines Frances Wilkins, Barbara Alge and the Aanischaaukamikw Cree Cultural Institute9. Club Inégales, Curation, and Processes of Public Musicology Helen Julia Minors10. Cultural and Artistic Citizenship in Classical Music Constanze Wimmer and Chris Dromey11. Musicology and/as Knowledge Exchange Toby Young12. ‘So wide is the field’: Edward Taylor’s Public Music Lectures Rachel JohnsonPart III. New Approaches and Research Methods13. The Sound Commons and Applied Ecomusicologies Aaron S. Allen, Taylor Leapaldt, Mark Pedelty and Jeff Todd Titon14. Perceptions of Melodic Symmetry: A Priming Study Michael Thorpe15. Opera Virgins at the Movies: Audience Research and the Ontology of Opera Cinema Joe Attard16. Towards an Applied Health Musicology: Aesthetic Music Therapy and Beyond Colin Andrew Lee and Chris Dromey17. “Parental Advisory”: Making Explicit the Value and Authenticity of a Music Degree Paul FleetPart IV. Representation and Inclusion18. Rethinking Representation in Music Education: Strategies to Integrate Pan-African Music Karen Cyrus19. Whose ‘Better World’? Reflections on Applied Music Interventions in the Andes Xabier Etxeberria Adrien and Henry Stobart20. Rethinking (Self-)Care in Musicology Klisala Harrison21. The Legality and Morality of Rap at Court Lily E. Hirsch22. Strategies for Using Music Theory to Inform Music Education, Psychology, and Therapy Research Adam OckelfordPart V. Musicology in/for Performance23. “Mahler am Tisch”: Experimenting with Imagined and Emergent Audiences Ties van de Werff, Veerle Spronck and Imogen Eve24. On Organology: Taxonomy and Transdisciplinarity Rachael Durkin and Darryl Martin25. Dialogues with Recordings: Digital Memory and the Archive Neil Heyde26. Intersections Between Northern Irish Choral Practices and Community Music Principles Sarah-Jane Gibson and Lee Higgins27. Music for Buildings, Building for Music Neil Thomas Smith and Peter PetersReferencesIndex
£215.00
Taylor & Francis Ltd Spotification of Popular Culture in the Field of Popular Communication
Book SynopsisThis edited collection considers various meanings of the Spotification of music and other media. Specifically, it replies to the editor's call to address the changes in media cultures and industries accompanying the transition to streaming media and media services. Streaming media services have become part of daily life all over the world, with Spotify, in particular, inheriting and reconfiguring characteristics of older ways of publishing, distributing, and consuming media.The contributors look to the broader community of music, media, and cultural researchers to spell out some of the implications of the Spotification of music and popular culture. These include changes in personal media consumption and production, educational processes, and the work of media industries. Interdisciplinary scholarship on commercial digital distribution is needed more than ever to illuminate the qualitative changes to production, distribution, and consumption accompanying streaming music and teTable of Contents1. Lost in spotify: folksonomy and wayfinding functions in spotify’s interface and companion apps2. Promises and Pitfalls: The Two-Faced Nature of Streaming and Social Media Platforms for Beirut-Based Independent Musicians3. Beyond the black box in music streaming: the impact of recommendation systems upon artists4. Revenue, access, and engagement via the in-house curated Spotify playlist in Australia 5. Metrics and Decision-Making in Music Streaming6. Digital music gatekeeping: a study on the impact of Spotify playlists and Youtube channels on the Brazilian music industryDani Gurgel, Luli Radfahrer, Alexandre Regattieri Bessa, Daniel Torres Guinezi and Daniel Cukier7. Organizing music, organizing gender: algorithmic culture and Spotify recommendations8. What Do We Do with These CDs? Transitional Experiences from Physical Music Media Purchases to Streaming Service Subscriptions
£38.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd The Music Profession in Britain 17801920
Book SynopsisProfessionalisation was a key feature of the changing nature of work and society in the nineteenth century, with formal accreditation, registration and organisation becoming increasingly common. Trades and occupations sought protection and improved status via alignment with the professions: an attempt to impose order and standards amid rapid social change, urbanisation and technological development. The structures and expectations governing the music profession were no exception, and were central to changing perceptions of musicians and music itself during the long nineteenth century. The central themes of status and identity run throughout this book, charting ways in which the music profession engaged with its place in society. Contributors investigate the ways in which musicians viewed their own identities, public perceptions of the working musician, the statuses of different sectors of the profession and attempts to manipulate both status and identity. Ten chapters examine aTable of ContentsIntroduction Rosemary Golding 1. The Finances, Estates, and Social Status of Musicians in the Late Eighteenth Century Rebecca Gribble 2. Composers and Publishers in Clementi’s London David Rowland 3. Professionalization and the Female Musician in Early Victorian Britain: the Campaign for Eliza Salmon David Kennerley 4. The British Army and the Music Profession: the Impact of Regimental Bands on the Status and Identity of Professional Musicians Helen Barlow 5. Church Musicians in Nineteenth-Century Durham Martin V. Clarke 6. The Rise of the Professional Music Critic in Nineteenth-Century England Paul Watt 7. Music Teaching in the Late-Nineteenth Century: a Professional Occupation? Rosemary Golding 8. Women Musicians and Professionalism in the Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Centuries Sophie Fuller 9. Musicians, Singers and Other Artistes as Workers in the British Music Hall 1900-1918 John Mullen 10. Building a Concert Career in Edwardian London Simon McVeigh
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Marketing Recorded Music
Book SynopsisThis fourth edition of Marketing Recorded Music is the essential resource to help you understand how recorded music is professionally marketed. Updated to reflect the digital era, with new chapters on emerging media, streaming, and branding, this fourth edition also includes strategies for independent and unsigned artists. Fully revised to reflect international marketing issues, Marketing Recorded Music is accompanied by a companion website with additional online resources, including PowerPoints, quizzes, and lesson plans, making it the go-to manual for students, as well as aspiring and experienced professionals.Trade Review"A definitive resource for teaching marketing and promotion in the music industry, professors should consider adding this as required text for their course"Terrance Tompkins, MBA, Program Coordinator/Assistant Professor, Hofstra UniversityTable of ContentsList of FiguresList of TablesList of Contributors AcknowledgementsChapter 1 IntroductionWhy Sign to a Record LabelRevenue StreamsMusic EverywhereThe New DealPublishingTouring and MerchandiseChapter 2 Marketing ConceptsSelling Recorded MusicWhat is MarketingThe Marketing MixProductProduct PositioningThe Product LifecycleThe Diffusion in Innovations and Adopter CategoriesInfluences on AdoptionHedonic Responses to MusicPricing StrategiesChapter 3 Segmentation and Consumer BehaviorMarkets and Market SegmentationSegmentation CriteriaMarket SegmentsGeographic SegmentationDemographic SegmentationMultivariable SegmentationPsychographic SegmentationPersonality Segmentation Behavioral SegmentationProduct UsageBenefits SoughtBrand LoyaltyUser StatusThe Millenial GenerationTarget MarketsConsumer Behavior and Purchasing DecisionsNeeds and MotivesConverting Browsers to BuyersHigh and Low Involvement Decision MakingDecision Making ProcessCognitive vs Emotional DecisionsChapter 4 ResearchIntroductionResearch and the Music IndustryTypes of ResearchOverarching Research Issues: Validity and ReliabilityThe Research ProcessOnline Survey ToolsDisadvantages of Online SurveysSyndicated ResearchCustom Research FirmsChapter 5 BrandingBranding BasicsSuccessfully Building a Strong BrandSuccessfully Leveraging the Artist’s BrandFinding the Right Brand PartnerChapter 6 U.S. Industry NumbersSales TrendsSales Trends and ConfigurationsAnnual Sales TrendsGenre TrendsDemographic TrendsAgeGenderMarket Share of the Majors and IndiesComparison of All and Current and Catalog AlbumsCatalog SalesChapter 7 Label OperationsLabel OperationsGetting Started as an ArtistBusiness AffairsArtist and Repertoire: How Labels Pick and Develop ArtistsDiscovering ArtistProducers and A&R ScoutsAttorneys and A&RPublishers and A&RReality TVHow Artist get on the A&R RadarBuild a Social Media PresencePerform Perform PerformGive Away Free MusicMake Professional ConnectionsFitting InRepertoire - A&R After The SigningProduction Manager / Artist Development Creative ServicesPublicityRadio PromotionSales and MarketingDigital Media / MarketingIndependent LabelsChapter 8 The Marketing PlanWho Get the PlanThe Classic Business School Marketing PlanWhat’s in the Record Company Marketing PlanSections of the PlanTimingThe Importance of Street DateChapter 9 Distribution and SalesIntroduction Traditional DistributionThe "Big 3" Consolidation and CompetitionVertical Integration Major Distribution OrganizationsIndependent Distributors - The AggregatorsMusic Supply to RetailersRetail Store ProfilesRole of Physical DistributionHow the Money FlowsForecastingTop 10 Revenue GeneratorsMetadataTimelineRetail ConsiderationsInventory ManagementRetail PromotionTrade AssociationChapter 10 StreamingThe Business of StreamingMarket ShareThe Business ModelHow Playlists WorkSpotifyApple MusicPandoraAmazonChapter 11 RadioThe State of RadioThe Value of RadioThe BusinessThe Radio Broadcasting IndustryRadio Station StaffingFormat ClockRadio AudiencesRadio Formats Targets of Radio FormatsWhat is Important to ProgrammersRatings, Research and TerminologyRadio Programming ResearchSatellite RadioHD RadioInternet RadioGetting AirplayPromotion and AirplayRadio PromotionHistory of PayolaGetting a Song on the RadioRadio PromotionSatellite Radio PromotionChapter 12 The Charts and Music ConnectThe History of Trade MagazinesThe Importance of ChartsCreating the ChartsUnderstanding the Billboard ChartsMediaBaseSpotify ChartsYouTubeiTunesApple MusicAmazonOther Charts that Measure PopularityAdditional Sources to Track MusicA Deeper Dive into NielsenHistoryIndustry TermsA Look at Music Connect Data - The ChartsThe Billboard Top 200The Billboard Top 200 Song ConsumptionDistribution Market ShareGenre PercentageDMA Percentage of BusinessOverall Sales by Format, Store Strata, and Product Configuration by Time PeriodDashboard Look at Artist SingleDashboard Look at Artist AlbumTop Performing Markets by Album RankChapter 13 PublicityPublicity DefinedHistoryLabel vs. Indie PublicistTools of the PublicistThe Press Kit and EPKPhotos and VideosPress ReleaseThe BiographyPress ClippingsPublicity and BrandingThe Publicity PlanBudgets for Money and TimeOutlets for PublicityWhat to sendWhere to send itTelevision AppearancesCharities and Public ServicesBad PublicityChapter 14 Digital MarketingSocial Media - connecting with fansSocial Media vs. Social Media MarketingSocial Media StrategySocial Media Best PracticesBest Practices by PlatformHow Social Media Algorithms WorkLive StreamingSocial Media Management and Listening ToolsPopular Social Media Management ToolsContent MarketingSEOMobile / TextingBloggingEmail MarketingChapter 15 Paid MediaPaid Media BasicsConsumer MediaTarget AudienceMedia StrategyMedia OptionsDigitalRadioAdditional Paid Media OpportunitiesTelevisionPrintOOHBillboardsDirect MailMobile/TextingTrade AdvertisingHow Advertising Effectiveness is MeasuredAdvertising Purchase Chapter 16 Artist Support and Tour SponsorshipArtist IncomeTour SupportTour SponsorshipFestival Sponsorship Products in the MusicThe BenefitsSoundtracks and CompilationsProduct Extensions and Retail ExclusivesArtists in the Virtual WorldChapter 17 MerchandiseWho, What, and When Merch SellsWhy Does Tour Merchandise SellDesigning Merch That SellsWhat Fans Want….that we can makeMerchandise Decisions that Impact SalesDesigning Great MerchEvent Merchandise OperationsDecisions that Impact Profit and SustainabilityInventory managementForecast Demand and RevenueMerchandise Sales on TourWhat Else Makes a Difference On TourSelling Merchandise OnlineIncreasing Average Order Size / Order VolumeLeveraging OfferPre-order CampaignsVIP PackagesProtecting Brand Equity - Knock-offs and Unofficial MerchandiseIndex
£47.00
Taylor & Francis Ltd Music as Labour
Book SynopsisThis book brings together research at the intersection of music, cultural industries, management, antiracist politics and gender studies to analyse music as labour, in particular highlighting social inequalities and activism. Providing insights into labour processes and practices, the authors investigate the changing role of manifold actors, institutions and technologies and the corresponding shifts in the valuation and evaluation of music achievements that have shaped the relationship between music, labour, the economy and politics. With research into a variety of geographic regions, chapters shed light on the various ways by which musicians' work is performed, constructed and managed at different times and show that musicians' working practices have been marked by precarity, insecurity and short-term contracts long before capitalism invited everybody to be creative'. In doing so, they specifically examine the dynamics in music professions and educational institutions, as weTrade Review"A profound compendium on deep-rooted inequalities and activism ... [and] an exemplary contribution to shaping the self-concept of cultural management as a socially responsible discipline not only in the mediation but also in the production of art." Verena Teissl, Arts Management NetworkTable of Contents1 Ironworks as Venues of Music Production: The Ostrava/Vítkovice Case from the 1890s to the 1910s Fritz Trümpi 2 From Bohemia to the Balkans: Towards a Socioeconomic History of Itinerant Women Musicians, 1860–1889 Nuppu Koivisto 3 The MGM Lion’s Ominous Roar: (New) Technologies and the Disappearing Profession of Silent Movie Theatre Musicians in Croatia of the Late 1920s Mojca Piškor 4 ‘Work that Body’: Disco, Counterculture and the Promise of the Transformation of Work Tim Lawrence 5 Hope, Labour and Privilege in American New Music John R. Pippen 6 A Lockdown Recording Project: Jazz Musicians and Metaphors for a Working Life Michael L. Jones 7 Emotional and relational labour in music from a feminist perspective Emília Barna 8 Afghan Pop in Europe. Migration, Affect, and Musical Labour Marko Kölbl 9 ‘It’s a Kind of Macho Culture’: Changes and Continuities in Young Female Musicians’ Talk about Inequalities Christina Scharff 10 Women Working in the Music Business: An Alumni Study Sally Anne Gross 11 Musicians of the World Unite! The Initial Years of the International Federation of Musicians Martin Cloonan 12 Towards More Inclusion in the Music Industry Sophie Hennekam 13 Moving Beyond @operaisracist: Exploring Black Activism as a Pathway to Antiracism and Creative Justice in Opera Antonio C. Cuyler
£135.00
Taylor & Francis Ltd Music as Labour
Book SynopsisThis book brings together research at the intersection of music, cultural industries, management, antiracist politics and gender studies to analyse music as labour, in particular highlighting social inequalities and activism. Providing insights into labour processes and practices, the authors investigate the changing role of manifold actors, institutions and technologies and the corresponding shifts in the valuation and evaluation of music achievements that have shaped the relationship between music, labour, the economy and politics. With research into a variety of geographic regions, chapters shed light on the various ways by which musicians' work is performed, constructed and managed at different times and show that musicians' working practices have been marked by precarity, insecurity and short-term contracts long before capitalism invited everybody to be creative'. In doing so, they specifically examine the dynamics in music professions and educational institutions, as weTrade Review"A profound compendium on deep-rooted inequalities and activism ... [and] an exemplary contribution to shaping the self-concept of cultural management as a socially responsible discipline not only in the mediation but also in the production of art." Verena Teissl, Arts Management NetworkTable of Contents1 Ironworks as Venues of Music Production: The Ostrava/Vítkovice Case from the 1890s to the 1910s Fritz Trümpi 2 From Bohemia to the Balkans: Towards a Socioeconomic History of Itinerant Women Musicians, 1860–1889 Nuppu Koivisto 3 The MGM Lion’s Ominous Roar: (New) Technologies and the Disappearing Profession of Silent Movie Theatre Musicians in Croatia of the Late 1920s Mojca Piškor 4 ‘Work that Body’: Disco, Counterculture and the Promise of the Transformation of Work Tim Lawrence 5 Hope, Labour and Privilege in American New Music John R. Pippen 6 A Lockdown Recording Project: Jazz Musicians and Metaphors for a Working Life Michael L. Jones 7 Emotional and relational labour in music from a feminist perspective Emília Barna 8 Afghan Pop in Europe. Migration, Affect, and Musical Labour Marko Kölbl 9 ‘It’s a Kind of Macho Culture’: Changes and Continuities in Young Female Musicians’ Talk about Inequalities Christina Scharff 10 Women Working in the Music Business: An Alumni Study Sally Anne Gross 11 Musicians of the World Unite! The Initial Years of the International Federation of Musicians Martin Cloonan 12 Towards More Inclusion in the Music Industry Sophie Hennekam 13 Moving Beyond @operaisracist: Exploring Black Activism as a Pathway to Antiracism and Creative Justice in Opera Antonio C. Cuyler
£39.99
Taylor & Francis Crowdfunding and Independence in Film and Music
Book SynopsisThis book explores how independent film and music artists and labels use crowdfunding and where this use places crowdfunding in the contemporary system of cultural production. It complements an analysis of independence in film and music with the topic of crowdfunding as a firmly established form of financing cultural activity.In the second half of the 20th century, the concept of artistic independence was vital to classifying and distinguishing artists, their works, and labels or publishers who released them. However, during the last three decades, this term has become increasingly blurred, and some commentators argue that independence is in crisis. Can crowdfunding be the answer to this crisis? Some believe that it is, whereas others argue otherwise, seeing crowdfunding instead as just the next manifestation of this crisis. This dilemma is a starting point for the analyses of the relationships between crowdfunding and artistic independence conducted in this book, and will beTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Crowdfunding as a New Form of Financing Creative Activity; 3. Crowdfunding Independent Cinema; 4. Crowdfunding and Independence in Music; 5. Conclusions; References
£62.58
Taylor & Francis Ltd Crowdfunding and Independence in Film and Music
Book SynopsisThis book explores how independent film and music artists and labels use crowdfunding and where this use places crowdfunding in the contemporary system of cultural production. It complements an analysis of independence in film and music with the topic of crowdfunding as a firmly established form of financing cultural activity.In the second half of the 20th century, the concept of artistic independence was vital to classifying and distinguishing artists, their works, and labels or publishers who released them. However, during the last three decades, this term has become increasingly blurred, and some commentators argue that independence is in crisis. Can crowdfunding be the answer to this crisis? Some believe that it is, whereas others argue otherwise, seeing crowdfunding instead as just the next manifestation of this crisis. This dilemma is a starting point for the analyses of the relationships between crowdfunding and artistic independence conducted in this book, and will beTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Crowdfunding as a New Form of Financing Creative Activity; 3. Crowdfunding Independent Cinema; 4. Crowdfunding and Independence in Music; 5. Conclusions; References
£18.99
Taylor & Francis Marketing Recorded Music
Book SynopsisThis fourth edition of Marketing Recorded Music is the essential resource to help you understand how recorded music is professionally marketed. Updated to reflect the digital era, with new chapters on emerging media, streaming, and branding, this fourth edition also includes strategies for independent and unsigned artists. Fully revised to reflect international marketing issues, Marketing Recorded Music is accompanied by a companion website with additional online resources, including PowerPoints, quizzes, and lesson plans, making it the go-to manual for students, as well as aspiring and experienced professionals.Trade Review"A definitive resource for teaching marketing and promotion in the music industry, professors should consider adding this as required text for their course"Terrance Tompkins, MBA, Program Coordinator/Assistant Professor, Hofstra UniversityTable of ContentsList of FiguresList of TablesList of Contributors AcknowledgementsChapter 1 IntroductionWhy Sign to a Record LabelRevenue StreamsMusic EverywhereThe New DealPublishingTouring and MerchandiseChapter 2 Marketing ConceptsSelling Recorded MusicWhat is MarketingThe Marketing MixProductProduct PositioningThe Product LifecycleThe Diffusion in Innovations and Adopter CategoriesInfluences on AdoptionHedonic Responses to MusicPricing StrategiesChapter 3 Segmentation and Consumer BehaviorMarkets and Market SegmentationSegmentation CriteriaMarket SegmentsGeographic SegmentationDemographic SegmentationMultivariable SegmentationPsychographic SegmentationPersonality Segmentation Behavioral SegmentationProduct UsageBenefits SoughtBrand LoyaltyUser StatusThe Millenial GenerationTarget MarketsConsumer Behavior and Purchasing DecisionsNeeds and MotivesConverting Browsers to BuyersHigh and Low Involvement Decision MakingDecision Making ProcessCognitive vs Emotional DecisionsChapter 4 ResearchIntroductionResearch and the Music IndustryTypes of ResearchOverarching Research Issues: Validity and ReliabilityThe Research ProcessOnline Survey ToolsDisadvantages of Online SurveysSyndicated ResearchCustom Research FirmsChapter 5 BrandingBranding BasicsSuccessfully Building a Strong BrandSuccessfully Leveraging the Artist’s BrandFinding the Right Brand PartnerChapter 6 U.S. Industry NumbersSales TrendsSales Trends and ConfigurationsAnnual Sales TrendsGenre TrendsDemographic TrendsAgeGenderMarket Share of the Majors and IndiesComparison of All and Current and Catalog AlbumsCatalog SalesChapter 7 Label OperationsLabel OperationsGetting Started as an ArtistBusiness AffairsArtist and Repertoire: How Labels Pick and Develop ArtistsDiscovering ArtistProducers and A&R ScoutsAttorneys and A&RPublishers and A&RReality TVHow Artist get on the A&R RadarBuild a Social Media PresencePerform Perform PerformGive Away Free MusicMake Professional ConnectionsFitting InRepertoire - A&R After The SigningProduction Manager / Artist Development Creative ServicesPublicityRadio PromotionSales and MarketingDigital Media / MarketingIndependent LabelsChapter 8 The Marketing PlanWho Get the PlanThe Classic Business School Marketing PlanWhat’s in the Record Company Marketing PlanSections of the PlanTimingThe Importance of Street DateChapter 9 Distribution and SalesIntroduction Traditional DistributionThe "Big 3" Consolidation and CompetitionVertical Integration Major Distribution OrganizationsIndependent Distributors - The AggregatorsMusic Supply to RetailersRetail Store ProfilesRole of Physical DistributionHow the Money FlowsForecastingTop 10 Revenue GeneratorsMetadataTimelineRetail ConsiderationsInventory ManagementRetail PromotionTrade AssociationChapter 10 StreamingThe Business of StreamingMarket ShareThe Business ModelHow Playlists WorkSpotifyApple MusicPandoraAmazonChapter 11 RadioThe State of RadioThe Value of RadioThe BusinessThe Radio Broadcasting IndustryRadio Station StaffingFormat ClockRadio AudiencesRadio Formats Targets of Radio FormatsWhat is Important to ProgrammersRatings, Research and TerminologyRadio Programming ResearchSatellite RadioHD RadioInternet RadioGetting AirplayPromotion and AirplayRadio PromotionHistory of PayolaGetting a Song on the RadioRadio PromotionSatellite Radio PromotionChapter 12 The Charts and Music ConnectThe History of Trade MagazinesThe Importance of ChartsCreating the ChartsUnderstanding the Billboard ChartsMediaBaseSpotify ChartsYouTubeiTunesApple MusicAmazonOther Charts that Measure PopularityAdditional Sources to Track MusicA Deeper Dive into NielsenHistoryIndustry TermsA Look at Music Connect Data - The ChartsThe Billboard Top 200The Billboard Top 200 Song ConsumptionDistribution Market ShareGenre PercentageDMA Percentage of BusinessOverall Sales by Format, Store Strata, and Product Configuration by Time PeriodDashboard Look at Artist SingleDashboard Look at Artist AlbumTop Performing Markets by Album RankChapter 13 PublicityPublicity DefinedHistoryLabel vs. Indie PublicistTools of the PublicistThe Press Kit and EPKPhotos and VideosPress ReleaseThe BiographyPress ClippingsPublicity and BrandingThe Publicity PlanBudgets for Money and TimeOutlets for PublicityWhat to sendWhere to send itTelevision AppearancesCharities and Public ServicesBad PublicityChapter 14 Digital MarketingSocial Media - connecting with fansSocial Media vs. Social Media MarketingSocial Media StrategySocial Media Best PracticesBest Practices by PlatformHow Social Media Algorithms WorkLive StreamingSocial Media Management and Listening ToolsPopular Social Media Management ToolsContent MarketingSEOMobile / TextingBloggingEmail MarketingChapter 15 Paid MediaPaid Media BasicsConsumer MediaTarget AudienceMedia StrategyMedia OptionsDigitalRadioAdditional Paid Media OpportunitiesTelevisionPrintOOHBillboardsDirect MailMobile/TextingTrade AdvertisingHow Advertising Effectiveness is MeasuredAdvertising Purchase Chapter 16 Artist Support and Tour SponsorshipArtist IncomeTour SupportTour SponsorshipFestival Sponsorship Products in the MusicThe BenefitsSoundtracks and CompilationsProduct Extensions and Retail ExclusivesArtists in the Virtual WorldChapter 17 MerchandiseWho, What, and When Merch SellsWhy Does Tour Merchandise SellDesigning Merch That SellsWhat Fans Want….that we can makeMerchandise Decisions that Impact SalesDesigning Great MerchEvent Merchandise OperationsDecisions that Impact Profit and SustainabilityInventory managementForecast Demand and RevenueMerchandise Sales on TourWhat Else Makes a Difference On TourSelling Merchandise OnlineIncreasing Average Order Size / Order VolumeLeveraging OfferPre-order CampaignsVIP PackagesProtecting Brand Equity - Knock-offs and Unofficial MerchandiseIndex
£135.00
Taylor & Francis Ltd Eastern European Music Industries and Policies after the Fall of Communism
Book SynopsisDuring the last thirty years Eastern Europe has been a place of radical political, economic, and social transformation, and these changes have affected the cultural industries of its countries. This volume consists of twelve chapters by leading international researchers. Stories are documented of various organisations that once dominated the communist music industries' such as state-owned record companies, music festivals, and collecting societies. The strategies employed by artists and industries to join international music markets after the fall of communism are explained and evaluated. Political and economic transformations that coincided with the advent of digitalisation and the Internet intensified the changes. All these issues posed challenges both to record labels and artists who, after adjusting to the rules of the free-market economy, were faced with the falling record sales of records caused by the advent of new communication technologies. This book examines hoTable of ContentsPart I: Introduction1. Contextualising research on the Eastern European music industriesPatryk Galuszka2. Creating a market economy in Eastern Europe: Economic reform as the central theme of the transitionTomasz LegiedzPart II: Russia3. Piracy as an institutionalised social practice in Soviet and post-Soviet RussiaMarco Biasioli4. ‘We have no music industry!’ Exploring the context of post-Soviet music making through the lens of contemporary Swedo-Russian collaborationsIngrid M TolstadPart III: Central Europe5. Socialist riches to capitalist rags: The disintegration of the GDR music industry during German reunificationSven Kube6. Collective management of copyright during communism and transition – A case study of the Society of Authors ZAiKSAnna Pluszyńska7. The National Festival of Polish Song in Opole: The transformation of legal, economic, and political circumstances over fifty years of the Polish music industryKatarzyna Korzeniewska 8. Pohoda: the importance of Slovakia’s greatest festivalPeter Barrer 9. Managing the Eastern European position in the digital era: music industry showcase events and popular music export in HungaryEmília BarnaPart IV: Southeast Europe10. The Romanian music scene: The social economy of pop music in the post-socialist periodElena Trifan11. Come visit (our past) again: How municipalities encourage retro rock culture on the Bulgarian music sceneGergana Rayzhekova12. The Yugoslav and post Yugoslav alternative rock canon presented in the music pressJulijana Papazova
£37.99
Taylor & Francis Beyond the Conservatory Model
Book SynopsisAmid enormous changes in higher education, audience and music listener preferences, and the relevant career marketplace, music faculty are increasingly aware of the need to reimagine classical music performance training for current and future students. But how can faculty and administrators, under urgent pressure to act, be certain that their changes are effective, strategic, and beneficial for students and institutions? In this provocative yet measured book, Michael Stepniak and Peter Sirotin address these questions with perspectives rooted in extensive experience as musicians, educators, and arts leaders. Building on a multidimensional analysis of core issues and drawing upon interviews with leaders from across the performing arts and higher education music fields, Stepniak and Sirotin scrutinize arguments for and against radical change, illuminating areas of unavoidable challenge as well as areas of possibility and hope. An essential read for education leaders contemplating how cTrade Review"Beyond the Conservatory Model provides a badly-needed insiders’ diagnosis—and many thoughtful remedies—for the anachronisms that many classical music conservatories have become. … Stepniak and Sirotin encourage us to think beyond the musical conservatism and homogeneity and instead give priority to helping students find their own ‘powerfully authentic and individual musical voice’ in pursuit of rekindling a human connection with an audience." — Douglas Dempster, Dean of the College of Fine Arts, The University of Texas at Austin, USA"Beyond the Conservatory Model speaks truth to power about the challenges (and potential opportunities) in higher education music study. Stepniak’s and Sirotin’s vision of student outcomes particularly resonated with me, offering practical solutions to reinvent how we train and prepare music students for the professional world. …This should be mandatory reading for all NASM/CMS members."— Kendra Whitlock Ingram, President and CEO, Marcus Performing Arts Center, Milwaukee, USA"This is a much-needed breath of fresh fire to the discussion surrounding the training of the next generation of ‘classical’ music performance majors. … Michael Stepniak and Peter Sirotin have compiled a brief and cogent examination as to just how underserved so many of these students are by a curriculum that was designed generations ago for an industry that has evolved, moved, died, changed gears, and continues to baffle even seasoned professionals. However, not giving in to mere despair or relying on the notion that the superiority of the art will win the day for the students, they have actually accumulated data from industry and academic professionals and given precise recommendations while acknowledging the inherent difficulty for curricular change at many institutions."— Daniel Graser, Saxophonist, The Sinta Quartet, and Lecturer in Music, Oakland University, Michigan, USA"I can’t imagine a more thoroughly researched or better written resource to guide higher education through the vital work of reimagining today’s music performance degree."— Andrew Hitz, Host of "The Entrepreneurial Musician" and "The Brass Junkies" podcasts, former tuba player for Boston BrassTable of ContentsSeries Editor's Introduction1. Beyond Beauty, Brilliance, and Expression: Musicianship and Reconnecting with the General Public2. Gathering Insights From the Field: How the Classical Music Marketplace Is Changing, and What That Change Means for the Training that Students Need3. Why This Change Is Unusually Difficult: Three Specific Factors May Be Thwarting the Will and Ability of Music Leaders to Change Performance Training Models4. Making Change That CountsAppendix: Select Readings on Leadership, and Leading Change in Higher EducationIndex
£26.24
Taylor & Francis Networks of Power in Digital Copyright Law and Policy
Book SynopsisIn this book, Benjamin Farrand employs an interdisciplinary approach that combines legal analysis with political theory to explore the development of copyright law in the EU. Farrand utilises Foucaultâs concept of Networks of Power and Culpepperâs Quiet Politics to assess the adoption and enforcement of copyright law in the EU, including the role of industry representative, cross-border licensing, and judicial approaches to territorial restrictions. Focusing in particular on legislative initiatives concerning copyright, digital music and the internet, Networks of Power in Digital Copyright Law and Policy: Political Salience, Expertise and the Legislative Process demonstrates the connection between copyright law and complex network relationships. This book presents an original socio-political theoretical framework for assessing developments in copyright law that will interest researchers and post-graduate students of law and politics, as well as those more particularlyTable of ContentsIntroduction, 1 Networks of Power, Quiet Politics and Political Salience: - establishing a framework for analyzing European digital copyright initiatives, 2 European digital copyright law. 3 One market, divided? The fragmented state of the market for digital music distribution in the European Union, and judicial approaches to territorial restrictions, 4 Networks of Power I: - The role of industry representatives in framing policies regarding the scope and duration of copyright, 5 Networks of Power II: - The role of industry representatives in framing policies regarding the enforcement of copyright, 6 Networks of Power III: - The role of industry representatives in framing policies regarding cross-border licensing, 7 Power and Resistance I: - Where there is Power, there is Resistance, 8 Power and Resistance II: - (In)Civil society, Changing Networks and the Unquiet Politics
£90.24
Taylor & Francis Popular Music in a Digital Music Economy Problems and Practices for an Emerging Service Industry Routledge Research in Music
Book SynopsisIn the late 1990s, the MP3 became the de facto standard for digital audio files and the networked computer began to claim a significant place in the lives of more and more listeners. The dovetailing of these two circumstances is the basis of a new mode of musical production and distribution where new practices emerge. This book is not a definitive statement about what the new music industry is. Rather, it is devoted to what this new industry is becoming by examining these practices as experiments, dedicated to negotiating what is replacing an object based industry oriented around the production and exchange of physical recordings. In this new economy, constant attention is paid to the production and licensing of intellectual property and the rise of the social musician who has been encouraged to become more entrepreneurial. Finally, every element of the industry now must consider a new type of audience, the end user, and their productive and distributive capacities around which services and musicians must orient their practices and investments.Trade Review"Anderson’s book is a great guide for this new world. In his book, he draws on a wide range of examples from Moby and Lupe Fiasco to Amanda Palmer and Jonathan Coulton. He also introduces readers to the role that music supervisors, such as Alexandra Pastavas, are playing in film and television." --Richard Schur, Drury University, New Books in MusicTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Enter The End User: A New Audience for A New Media 2. Why Don’t We Give it Away?: The Value of Free for a New Music Industry 3. Retail Climate Change: From Selling Music to Selling a Service 4. Opening Pandora’s Box: The Problematic Promise of Radio on the Internet 5. Radio on the TV: Music Supervision Taken Seriously 6. In a Land of 360 deals a 1,000 True Fans Can’t Be Wrong: Financing the Social Musician and Online Relationships Conclusion
£145.00
University of California Press Selling Digital Music Formatting Culture
Book SynopsisFocusing on case studies of five key technologies, this book explores how music listeners gradually came to understand computers and digital files as suitable replacements for their stereos and CD.Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: The Digital Music Commodity 1. Music as a Digital File 2. Making Technology Behave 3. This Business of Napster 4. Click to Buy: Music in Digital Stores 5. Music in the Cloud Conclusion: Exceptional Objects Notes Works Cited Index
£999.99
University of California Press God Rock Inc.
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This landmark study of Christian music in the United States offers both resonances and challenges to those in the field of religious studies." * Religion *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Playlists Introduction: Popular Music, Markets, Margins, and the Curious Case of Christian Music PART ONE. CHRISTIAN MUSIC: AN INDUSTRY AND ITS HISTORY 1 "Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?" The Christian Market's Origins 2 The Great Adventure: Commercial Success in the Christian Record Industry and the Price of Profit 3 A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing? Christian Ethics Encounter Rock 4 "Find a Way": Amy Grant and the Christian Market's Mainstream PART TWO. NICHE MUSIC MARKETS: ETHICS, PROFITS, AND RISK 5 Music to Raise the Dead: Christian Music and the Ethics of Style 6 Lost in the Sound of Separation: Resistance at Christian Music Festivals 7 From Margins to Mainstreams and Back: Crossover Cases and Their Markets Conclusion: The Stability of Risk and the Risk of Stability Appendix 1. Discographies Appendix 2. Pop Singles with Christian References (1957–70) Appendix 3. Major Christian Record Labels and Subsidiaries Appendix 4. Successful 1990s-Era Pop Singers' Albums Notes Bibliography Index
£999.99
Faber & Faber Bodies
Book SynopsisThe must-read music book of the year, as heard on Steve Lamacq, The Times Radio & 5LIVE, and extracted in Rolling Stone & the Daily Telegraph'Required reading' Irish Times 'Electrifying' Kerrang 'Genuinely eye-popping' Guardian 'Essential' Classic Rock'Harrowing, hilarious and important.' FRANK TURNERMoney, freedom, adoring fans: professional musicians seem to have it all. But beneath the surface lies a frightening truth: for years the music industry has tolerated death, addiction and exploitation in the name of entertainment.In Bodies, Ian Winwood explores the industry's reluctance to confront its many failures in a far-reaching story which features first-hand access to artists such as Foo Fighters, Green Day, Trent Reznor, Biffy Clyro, Kings of Leon, Chris Cornell, Mark Lanegan, Pearl Jam. Much more than a touchline reporter, Winwood also tells the tale
£14.99
Hal Leonard Corporation Business of Bass DVD
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Hal Leonard Corporation The Independent Piano Teachers Studio Handbook
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Middle Tennessee Music Getting Your Music Heard Online written by indie musicians for indie musicians who prefer a DIY approach
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
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Fuller Street Music & Media Music Resources Online Web Resources for Musicians Music Sales Distribution Teaching Marketing Production Publishing ECommerce and More Creative Entrepreneurship Series
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
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Ascent Book Publishing The Anatomy of a Record Company How to Survive
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Hachette Australia Roadies The Secret History of Australian
Book SynopsisThis is your backstage pass to the hidden side of the music industry - the tantrums, the fights, the tensions, the indulgence, the sex, the alcohol, the drugs. The roadies see it all, and now they are sharing their secrets.Roadies are the unsung heroes of the Australian music industry. They unload the PAs and equipment, they set it all up, they make sure everything is running smoothly before, during and after the gigs. Then they pack everything up in the middle of the night, put it in the back of the truck and hit the road to another town - to do it all over again.They know everything about the pre- and post-show excesses. They bear witness to overdoses, the groupies, the obsessive fans. They are part of - and often organise - all the craziness that goes on behind the scenes of the concerts and pub gigs you go to. From The Rolling Stones to AC/DC, Bob Marley to Courtney Love, Sherbet to The Ted Mulry Gang, INXS to Blondie - the roadies havTrade ReviewThere are many great stories in Roadies - hijinks played by roadies on the bands and others.The book can send you into laughter and tears. * South Sydney Herald *There are many great stories in Roadies - hijinks played by roadies on the bands and others.The book can send you into laughter and tears. * South Sydney Herald *Engaging, funny and insightful, it will make for a great Christmas present. * Canberra Weekly *Engaging, funny and insightful, it will make for a great Christmas present. * Canberra Weekly *a long-overdue tribute to the men and women behind the scenes who literally run the show. * Qweekend *a long-overdue tribute to the men and women behind the scenes who literally run the show. * Qweekend *Engaging, funny and insightful, it will make for a great Christmas present. * Canberra Weekly *Engaging, funny and insightful, it will make for a great Christmas present. * Canberra Weekly *NEVER BEFORE has there been a book that so carefully traces the history of Australian road crews and what makes them the best in the world. * Scenestr *NEVER BEFORE has there been a book that so carefully traces the history of Australian road crews and what makes them the best in the world. * Scenestr *If you've ever wanted to know the weirdest stuff Australian roadies have seen, now's your chance * The Music (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane) *Review * Sydney Morning Herald *Review * The Australian *Review * Hush Hush Biz *Review * Arts Review *Review * Girl.com.au *
£999.99
McFarland and Company, Inc. Payola in the Music Industry A History 18801991
Book SynopsisTrade Reviewa well-documented account that should interest a wide range of readers - Library Journal ""a wealth of fascinating material...the only in-depth study of the subject...excellent"" - Choice
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Random House USA Inc Motown
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Watson-Guptill Publications What TheyLl Never Tell You About the Music Biz
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