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How to Pitch and Promote Your Songs
Fred Koller
Format: Hardcover
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To help songwriters capitalize on this demand for songs and understand the many changes and pitfalls within the industry, a veteran songwriter now shares his success secrets.Recording pioneers would hardly recognize the music industry today. While new acts rise and fall, te |
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The Billboard Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music: From Rock, Pop, Jazz, Blues and Hip Hop to Classical, Country, Folk, World and More
Paul Du Noyer
Format: Book
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Rock, country, classical, hip hop, folk, world, dance - virtually every combination thereof and every major player therein - will be found within the pages of the most authoritative, informative, and entertaining guide to music ever published.Genres Covered: |
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Heritage of Music
Michael Raeburn
Format: Book
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This handsome new reference is an encyclopedic record of Western music from the Middle Ages to the present day. With a lively text and copious illustrations, each volume is a complete survey of the period it covers; together the four volumes present a history of Western music as |
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Listen: Brief
Joseph Kerman
Format: Book
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With its superb recording package and innovative listening charts, this landmark text teaches students how to listen to music better than any other. Listen makes music approachable by placing it in its cultural context with lavish illustrations, timelines, and maps. Equippe |
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The Enjoyment of Music: An Introduction to Perceptive Listening
Joseph Machlis
Format: Book
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The special features of this music appreciation handbook include detailed listening guides, cultural perspectives that shed light on the music of the world, quotes from composers and The Norton Recordings which provide performances of all listening examples. |
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Bluegrass: An Informal Guide
Richard D Smith
Format: Print book
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Created by the legendary Bill Monroe of Kentucky and made famous by his Blue Grass Boys, bluegrass music has been sweeping musicians and audiences off their feet sinde 1939. This guide provides engaging trivia, insider anecdotes, and suggestions for listening that will appeal to b |
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Music Lessons: Guide Your Child to Play a Musical Instrument (and Enjoy It!)
Stephanie Stein Crease - Chicago Review Press
Format: Paperback
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Named one of Publishers Weekly's Best 100 Books of 2006. Providing guidance for parents who want their children to enjoy learning to play a musical instrument, this resource teaches parents the best ways to encourage children's musical talents. Key guidance is provided for the trickiest... |
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Guitar For Dummies
Mark Phillips - John Wiley & Sons
Format: Print book
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The bestselling guide now updated with video demonstrations and audio tracks online The guitar is one of the most versatile instruments in the world, which is why it's so appealing to musicians. Guitar For Dummies, 4th Edition gives you everything a beginning or intermediate acoustic... |
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All You Need to Know About the Music Business: Seventh Edition
Donald S. Passman - Free Press; 7th Edition edition
Format: Book
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Since the advent of file-sharing technology in the late 1990s, the music industry has been challenged to reinvent itself. What has it done? How have the record labels repositioned themselves to cope with these massive changes? How does all this affect creative artists? No one understands... |
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Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal
Ian Christe
Format: Hardcover
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Welcome, all ye who dare enter Sound of the Beast, the first definitive look at the madness and mayhem of heavy metal. From its cataclysmic beginning with Black Sabbath over 30 years ago to the hyperactive nu metal bands ripping apart the charts today, heavy metal has become th |
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Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America
Jonathan Gould
Format: Book
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Nearly twenty years in the making, Can't Buy Me Love is a masterful work of group biography, cultural history, and musical criticism. That the Beatles were an unprecedented phenomenon is a given. In Can't Buy Me Love, Jonathan Gould seeks to explain why, placing the |
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Out of Sync: A Memoir
Lance Bass - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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At sixteen, Lance Bass received a phone call from Justin Timberlake that would change his life forever. Soon after, he left his small-town home in Clinton, Mississippi, to join an emerging musical group called *NSYNC. Two years later *NSYNC was inspiring Beatles-esque mania around the world,... |
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This Is All a Dream We Dreamed: An Oral History of the Grateful Dead
Blair Jackson - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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In This Is All a Dream We Dreamed, two of the most well-respected chroniclers of the Dead, Blair Jackson and David Gans, reveal the band's story through the words of its members, their creative collaborators and peers, and a number of diverse fans, stitching together a multitude of voices... |
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U2 by U2
Neil McCormick - It Books; 1st Us Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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B format PB, 456pp,32pp col & b/w ills+ occ int b/wills throughout 197 x130mm, 580g
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She's a Rebel: The History of Women in Rock & Roll
Gillian G Gaar
Format: Book
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A lively history of women in rock and pop, featuring interviews with dozens of performers and a behind-the-scenes look at the music industry. From Big Mama Thornton, who topped the charts with Hound Dog three years before Elvis did, to Madonna, who has been topping charts for year |
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Dreamgirls
Bill Condon
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Three young women Deena Jones, Effie White, and Lorrell Robinson desire to become pop stars. They get their wish when they are picked to be backup singers for the legendary James "Thunder" Early. When they are set free for leads, Curtis Taylor and Effie's brother C.C. de |
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Almost Famous (2000)
Cameron Crowe - Dreamworks Video
Format: DVD
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Almost Famous is the movie Cameron Crowe has been waiting a lifetime to tell. The fictionalization of Crowe's days as a teenage reporter for Creem and Rolling Stone has all the well-written characters and wonderful "movie moments" that we expect from Crowe (Jerry Maguire),... |
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How to Pitch and Promote Your Songs
Fred Koller
Format: Hardcover
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To help songwriters capitalize on this demand for songs and understand the many changes and pitfalls within the industry, a veteran songwriter now shares his success secrets.Recording pioneers would hardly recognize the music industry today. While new acts rise and fall, te |
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