Music recording and reproduction Books
RLPG How to Make Your Band Sound Great Music Pro
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£35.15
Rowman & Littlefield Guerrilla Home Recording
Book SynopsisA clever resource for the ever-growing home recording market.ÞThe revised edition is updated with a greater focus on digital recording techniques the most powerful tools available to the home recordist. There are chapters devoted to instrument recording humanizing drum patterns mixing with plug-ins and virtual consoles and a new section on using digital audio skills. And since many true Guerrillas still record to analog tape we have retained the best of that world. This edition features many more graphics than in the original edition further enforcing ÊGuerrilla Home RecordingÊ''s reputation as the most readable user-frienly recording title on the market.
£23.75
Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation Q on Producing
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£26.60
RLPG Reason 4 Beginner Level Toy Piano and Violin
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£42.75
RLPG Reason 4 Advanced Level Toy Piano and Violin
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£42.75
RLPG Live 7 Beginner Level Toy Piano and Violin DVD
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£42.75
RLPG Logic 8 Advanced Level Pro Express Music Pro
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£42.75
Hal Leonard Corporation The Desktop Studio
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£36.14
Hal Leonard Corporation In the Studio with Michael Jackson
Book SynopsisIN THE STUDIO WITH MICHAEL JACKSON
£31.37
RLPG CUBASE 5 BEGINNER LEVEL MUSICB
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£35.00
RLPG Music Pro Guide Cubase 5 Advancd DVD
Book SynopsisCUBASE 5 ADVANCED
£38.76
Hal Leonard Corporation Sibelius A Comprehensive Guide to Sibelius Music
Book SynopsisSIBELIUS: A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO SIBELIUS NOTATION SOFTWARE - REVISED AND UPDATED
£38.26
Hal Leonard Corporation The Business of Audio Engineering Teachers Guide
Book SynopsisTEACHER'S GUIDE BUSINESS OF AUDIO ENGINEERING
£15.00
Hal Leonard Corporation A Friend in the Music Business
Book SynopsisOn February 13 1914 a group of the nation''s most distinguished and popular songwriters gathered together in New York City to support the mission of ASCAP a new organization for publishers and songwriters. A few years later ASCAP received its mandate from the Supreme Court to collect royalties for the public performance of copyrighted material. Over the course of the next century ASCAP has been as prominent a force for the advancement and nurture and financial well-being of songwriters as any record label or publishing outfit one would care to name. With a responsive board of directors made up entirely of songwriter/composer and publisher members ASCAP has defended creators'' rights at every turn against those who would seek to devalue music. Today with copyright under renewed assault its mission is as resonant and vital as ever along with its relatively new role as a nurturer of the young artists who represent the future of music.ÞAward-winning music writer Bruce Pollock expl
£27.00
Hal Leonard Corporation Rockin Your Stage Sound
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£32.40
Adams Media Corporation The Beginners Guide to Vinyl
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£13.71
Rowman & Littlefield iTakeOver
Book SynopsisiTake-Over: The Recording Industry in the Digital Era sheds light on the way large corporations appropriate new technologies related to recording and distribution of audio material to maintain their market dominance in a capitalist system. All too commonly, scholars have asserted too confidently, how the rise and reign of digital music has diminished the power of major record labels. In iTake-Over, music scholar David Arditi argues otherwise, adopting a broader perspective by examining how the recording industry has strengthened copyright laws for their corporate ends at the expense of the broader public good, which has traditionally depended on the safe harbor of fair use. Arditi also challenges the dominant discourse over digital music distribution, which has largely adopted the position that the recording industry has a legitimate claim to profitability at the detriment of a shared culture. iTake-Over more specifically surveys the actual material effects that digital distribution haTrade ReviewFor more than a decade, record companies have warned of the dire consequences of illegal downloading of music and the imminent demise of their industry. Though many mom-and-pop record shops have indeed disappeared, the big record companies have not only survived but, according to Arditi, have strengthened their dominance of music culture. Far from being defensive reactions to widespread digital piracy, the prosecutions of Napster and the passage of legislation by Congress were part of an offensive strategy on the part of record companies to maintain their profits. Arditi divides this book into four main parts: Transformations in the Recording Industry, on the move to digital; The State in Music, on the role of government; The Recording Industry and Labor; and Digital Distribution and Surveillance. In each section the author shows how society has lost as corporations gained advantage. However, as Arditi concludes, despite the efforts by the record companies, the consuming public and performing musicians refuse to acquiesce totally to the industry view of how music should be consumed today. A valuable resource for those interested in the future of music in society. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers. * CHOICE *Throughout the book, Arditi consistently responds to industry-initiated narratives (whether artist- or label- or RIAAgenerated) with concrete data either directly to refute or contextualize within a larger framework, thereby arriving at a more credible conclusion. The strength of Arditi’s writing is in this construct, and it can be terribly effective: even in the first chapter, he calmly sets up the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry’s (IFPI) analysis of the dwindling retail value of music in the United States between 1995–2009 and then contrasts it with Nielsen SoundScan numbers from the same period, which show a remarkable increase. . . .[T]he content of the book...is undoubtedly excellent. * ARSC Journal *David Arditi’s book is an excellent study of the music industry’s political economy in the age of digital capitalism. He shows that it is not file sharers who are thieves, but that rather oligopolistic capitalist entertainment companies are thieves that exploit artists and not just steal surplus-value, but also commodify and destroy the cultural commons. The book is a highly astute and timely study that shows that we urgently need to overcome capitalism and create a commonist information society. -- Prof. Christian Fuchs, Journal Editor, tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique and author of Digital Labour and Karl MarxDavid Arditi’s iTake-Over: The Recording Industry in the Digital Era expertly reassesses the technological, social, legal, and cultural transformations from 1995 to 2010 in the recorded music business as it shifts from more packaged physical commodity sales to mostly digital downloads and streaming services. The global music industry has faced, and then adapted to, tremendously disruptive changes in the consumption, marketing, production, and valorization of recorded music with the advent of the Internet and digital technologies over the last two decades. His book maps out why the major record labels quickly adapted how they produce music to remain more dominant players within the broader music industry game. This insightful analysis challenges the conventional wisdom by showing how fully digital production and distribution systems more deeply entrenched, rather than somehow undermined, the industrial clout of these businesses. -- Timothy W. Luke, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityDavid Arditi’s well-timed book, iTake-Over: The Recording Industry in the Digital Era examines the spurious relationship between digital downloads and the proposed end of the commercial recording industry. During this period record labels executives, their representatives and the general media foretold demise of recorded music with the development of mp3 file format. We continue to face an unparalleled era of accelerated change. How music executives respond and adapt to new realities will determine the success of their organizations. This well researched book is highly recommended for artists and practitioners, especially executives who will inevitably face new challenges to the creation, production, distribution and consumption of recorded music. -- Richard Strasser, Director, Music Industry Leadership Program, Northeastern UniversityTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments Preface Part I: Introduction Part II: Transformations in the Recording Industry Chapter 1Recording Industry in Transition Chapter 2The Expansion of Consumption in the Recording Industry Part III: The State in Music Chapter 3Copyright: A Critical Exploration Chapter 4Critical Junctures Part IV: The Recording Industry and Labor Chapter 5Musician Labor Chapter 6Victims, Musicians and Metallica Part V: Digital Distribution and Surveillance Chapter 7Distribution Then and Now Chapter 8Watching Music Consumption Part VI: Conclusion Bibliography Notes Index
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RLPG Digital Performer for Engineers and Producers
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£22.75
Hal Leonard Corporation Tips for Tight Teams Worship Musician Presents
Book SynopsisTIPS FOR TIGHT TEAMS
£21.69
Hal Leonard Corporation The Hal Leonard Recording Method Instrument
Book SynopsisHAL LEONARD RECORDING METHOD - INSTRUMENTS & VOCAL RECORDING: 2ND EDITION
£35.10
RLPG Hal Leonard Recording Method Book 6 Mixing
Book SynopsisHAL LEONARD RECORDING METHOD: MIXING & MASTERING (VOL.6) 2ND EDITION
£38.53
RLPG Desktop Mastering Music Pro Guides
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£35.12
Hal Leonard Corporation The Bruce Swedien Recording Method
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£35.10
RLPG Logic Pro for Recording Engineers Producers
Book SynopsisLOGIC PRO FOR RECORDING ENGINEERS AND PRODUCERS
£21.87
RLPG Hal Leonard Recording Method Recording Software
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£48.45
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Spin Now
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£16.15
Hal Leonard Corporation The Worship Band Book
Book SynopsisWhether you''re in a band yourself or part of a ministry involved with teams this book can help you on your journey. For 30 years musician songwriter and worshipper Tom Lane has worked in the Christian worship music industry and alongside churches ministries and movements around the world associated with worship.ÞIn this collection of articles Lane encourages honesty and clear communication from all sides while aiming for the right thing ä to be a band that worships first and foremost. Spiritual relational professional and practical issues relevant for individuals and groups in worship ministry of any kind are addressed head on.ÞHistorically bands have helped lead revolutions crusades campaigns churches rallies and entire nations. The role bands play in worship though important is not the pinnacle of the calling or mandate according to Jesus. While it''s okay to have a good rock band and want to go places many creatively gifted Christians miss the mark entirely and
£15.19
RLPG Engineering and Producing Hal Leonard Recording
Book SynopsisHAL LEONARD RECORDING METHOD BOOK 5: ENGINEERING AND PRODUCING - 2ND EDITION
£48.45
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Welcome to the Jungle
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£20.89
DK Mixing Music Idiots Guides
Book SynopsisIdiot's Guides: Mixing Music breaks down all the complex jargon for beginners and discussing a blend of skillful principles and techniques that anyone can utilize when mixing. It covers all the fundamentals from the various mixing styles, the element of a mix and how to build one, the rules of arrangement, the secrets of equalization and frequencies. This guide is packed full of expert advice and be platform neutral for any home mixer. Also includes: • In-depth review of budget-friendly music equipment and purchasing. • Chock full of tips, tricks, and techniques on perfecting mixes. • Easy-to-comprehend breakdown of terms and techniques that any mixer can master. • The fundamentals of music mixing, breaking the process down so readers understand the basics. • The building blocks of mixing: reverb, blend, size, tone, sus
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History Press Carolina Beach Music Compilation Albums
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£19.88
The University of North Carolina Press High Bias The Distorted History of the Cassette
Book SynopsisThe cassette tape was revolutionary. Cheap, portable, and reusable, this small plastic rectangle changed music history. This entertaining book charts the journey of the cassette from its invention in the early 1960s to its Walkman-led domination in the 1980s to decline at the birth of compact discs to resurgence among independent music makers.Trade ReviewAn affectionate ode . . . Masters constructs a lively and detailed case for the cassette as a vital driver of cultural creation. This charming history is sure to please anyone nostalgic for the mixtapes of yesteryear."—Publishers Weekly A thoroughly enjoyable romp . . . With energy, insight, and wit, Masters provides a welcome examination of an often overlooked cultural turning point."—Kirkus Reviews (STARRED review) This accessible primer unravels past and present uses and misuses of cassettes. . . . Masters builds a generous lineage, where it is clear that as much as 'sounds realign magnetic particles on a tape . . . the tape realigns your brain.'"—The Wire Knowingly written from the perspective of an entangled enthusiast rather than a distanced observer, [High Bias] carries an awareness that an objective history of the impact of a piece of technology isn't possible, all we can do is collect the stories we tell through it. . . . High Bias is a material history, but it's also a folk history."—The Quietus "Masters, whose work often goes far below the surface of all things sonic . . . offers a fascinating look at the shifting role of cassettes over the years—and some of the fascinating ways in which people have used them."—InsideHook A wonderful book, whose title is derived from the term for tape quality."—The Goo
£16.96
Alfred USA PreSonus StudioLive Mixer Handbook The Official
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£23.99
Edinburgh University Press The New Soundtrack
Book SynopsisThe New Soundtrack brings together leading academic and professional perspectives on the relationship between sound and moving images. Former editors of The Soundtrack, Stephen Deutsch, Larry Sider and Dominic Power, bring their expertise to this project, providing a new platform for discourse on how aural elements combine with moving images.
£18.04
Edinburgh University Press The New Soundtrack
Book SynopsisThe New Soundtrack brings together leading edge academic and professional perspectives on the complex relationship between sound and moving images.
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Edinburgh University Press The New Soundtrack
Book SynopsisThe New Soundtrack is a biannual journal that brings together leading edge academic and professional perspectives on the complex relationship between sound and moving images.
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press The New Soundtrack
Book SynopsisThe New Soundtrack is fully peer-reviewed and includes contributions from recognised practitioners in the field, including composers, sound designers and directors.
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press The Auditory Setting
Book SynopsisThe Auditory Setting introduces and investigates how narrative and a sense of place are constructed in film and media arts through the reproduction and mediation of site-specific environmental sounds, or 'ambience'.Trade Review"The Auditory Setting brings a personalised, post-colonial perspective to the rapidly expanding field of audio for moving image and its relationship to the site. Written with the sensibility of a sound artist, this book asks incisive questions of our evolving digital sonosphere." -David Toop, musician, author, Professor of Audio Culture and Improvisation at London College of Communication
£19.94
RLPG Music Pro Guide AutoTune 7 Advanced DVD
Book SynopsisAUTO-TUNE 7 ADVANCED LEVEL MUSIC PRO GUIDE DVD
£42.75
RLPG The Power in Cakewalk Sonar Quick Pro Guides
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£22.98
Hal Leonard Corporation The Business of Audio Engineering
Book SynopsisTHE BUSINESS OF AUDIO ENGINEERING 2ND EDITION
£23.75
RLPG Mastering AutoTune Quick Pro Guides
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£21.87
Hal Leonard Corporation Pitch Correction Software Now Now Series
Book SynopsisPITCH CORRECTION SOFTWARE NOW!
£19.20
RLPG Power Tools for Studio One 2 Volume 2 Power Tools
Book SynopsisPOWER TOOLS FOR STUDIO ONE 2 MASTER PRESONUS COMPLETE CREATION & PRODUCT SOFTWARE VOL2
£48.17
Duke University Press Working Musicians
Book SynopsisIn Working Musicians Timothy D. Taylor offers a behind-the-scenes look at the labor of the mostly unknown composers, music editors, orchestrators, recording engineers, and other workers involved in producing music for films, television, and video games. Drawing on dozens of interviews with music workers in Los Angeles, Taylor explores the nature of their work and how they understand their roles in the entertainment business. Taylor traces how these cultural laborers have adapted to and cope with the conditions of neoliberalism as, over the last decade, their working conditions have become increasingly precarious. Digital technologies have accelerated production timelines and changed how content is delivered, while new pay schemes have emerged that have transformed composers from artists into managers and paymasters. Taylor demonstrates that as bureaucratization and commercialization affect every aspect of media, the composers, musicians, music editors, engineers, and others whosTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Working Musicians 1 1. Group Production, the Collective Laborer, Supply Chains, and Fields 19 2. Creativity 48 3. Composers’ Labor 81 4. The Music Supply Chain after the Composer: Adding Value 119 5. Challenges 138 6. It’s a Man’s, Man’s, Man’s, Man’s World 156 7. Neoliberalization as (Self-)Exploitation 177 8. “Thousands of Guys Like Me” 212 Notes 217 References 231 Index 245
£70.55
Duke University Press Working Musicians
Book SynopsisTimothy D. Taylor offers a behind-the-scenes look at the working composers, musicians, and engineers who create soundtracks for film, television, and video games.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Working Musicians 1 1. Group Production, the Collective Laborer, Supply Chains, and Fields 19 2. Creativity 48 3. Composers’ Labor 81 4. The Music Supply Chain after the Composer: Adding Value 119 5. Challenges 138 6. It’s a Man’s, Man’s, Man’s, Man’s World 156 7. Neoliberalization as (Self-)Exploitation 177 8. “Thousands of Guys Like Me” 212 Notes 217 References 231 Index 245
£18.89
Duke University Press Streaming Music Streaming Capital
Book SynopsisEric Drott undertakes a wide-ranging study of the political economy of music streaming to engage in a broader reconsideration of music's complex relation to capitalism.Trade Review“Streaming Music, Streaming Capital is terrific. Eric Drott offers us an assured and learned guide to understanding recorded music in the present conjuncture and likely for years to come. As a study of the political and psychic economies of music streaming, it is unparalleled and will be a must-read.” -- Sumanth Gopinath, author of * The Ringtone Dialectic: Economy and Cultural Form *“Eric Drott offers a much-needed analysis of recorded music, online streaming, and their mutual mediation. With its incorporation into digital platforms, music’s oft-celebrated power to connect takes on new significance as it becomes, simultaneously, a lucrative asset, a service to rent, a means of data accumulation, and an extraeconomic resource. Drott’s fascinating examination of this new music economy’s coherences and contradictions deserves to be widely read.” -- Marie Thompson, Senior Lecturer in Popular Music, The Open University“For those awaiting the definitive critical interrogation of the global music streaming economy, Eric Drott has provided a consummate account. Drott refuses the fallacy of music’s exceptionalism, and in this skilled reading music portends many of the wider crises characterizing our world.” -- Georgina Born, Professor of Anthropology and Music, University College LondonTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Streaming Music 22 2. Streaming Capital 63 3. Music as a Technology of Surveillance 101 4. Counterfeiting Attention in the Streaming Economy: Spam, Click Fraud, and Fake Artists 144 5. Streaming, Cheap Music, and the Crises of Social Reproduction 193 Epilogue 235 Notes 255 Bibliography 307 Index 331
£77.35
Duke University Press Streaming Music Streaming Capital
Book SynopsisIn Streaming Music, Streaming Capital, Eric Drott analyzes the political economy of online music streaming platforms. Attentive to the way streaming has reordered the production, circulation, and consumption of music, Drott examines key features of this new musical economy, including the roles played by data collection, playlisting, new methods of copyright enforcement, and the calculation of listening metrics. Yet because streaming underscores how uneasily music sits within existing regimes of private property, its rise calls for a broader reconsideration of music’s complex and contradictory relation to capitalism. Drott''s analysis is not simply a matter of how music is formatted in line with dominant measures of economic value; equally important is how music eludes such measures, a situation that threatens to reduce music to a cheap, abundant resource. By interrogating the tensions between streaming’s benefits and pitfalls, Drott sheds light on music’s situaTrade Review“Streaming Music, Streaming Capital is terrific. Eric Drott offers us an assured and learned guide to understanding recorded music in the present conjuncture and likely for years to come. As a study of the political and psychic economies of music streaming, it is unparalleled and will be a must-read.” -- Sumanth Gopinath, author of * The Ringtone Dialectic: Economy and Cultural Form *“Eric Drott offers a much-needed analysis of recorded music, online streaming, and their mutual mediation. With its incorporation into digital platforms, music’s oft-celebrated power to connect takes on new significance as it becomes, simultaneously, a lucrative asset, a service to rent, a means of data accumulation, and an extraeconomic resource. Drott’s fascinating examination of this new music economy’s coherences and contradictions deserves to be widely read.” -- Marie Thompson, Senior Lecturer in Popular Music, The Open University“For those awaiting the definitive critical interrogation of the global music streaming economy, Eric Drott has provided a consummate account. Drott refuses the fallacy of music’s exceptionalism, and in this skilled reading music portends many of the wider crises characterizing our world.” -- Georgina Born, Professor of Anthropology and Music, University College LondonTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Streaming Music 22 2. Streaming Capital 63 3. Music as a Technology of Surveillance 101 4. Counterfeiting Attention in the Streaming Economy: Spam, Click Fraud, and Fake Artists 144 5. Streaming, Cheap Music, and the Crises of Social Reproduction 193 Epilogue 235 Notes 255 Bibliography 307 Index 331
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