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Women and Popular Music
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 39.95Women and Popular Music explores the changing role of women musicians and the ways in which their songs resonate in popular culture. Sheila Whiteley begins by examining the counter-culture's reactionary attitudes to women through the lyrics of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. She explores the ways in which artists like Joplin and Joni Mitchell... more...
Ableton Live 8 and Suite 8
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 44.95Learn how to create, produce and perform a whole new way; prepare to unlock the power of Live. This book and DVD combination shows, if you get it right, exactly what Ableton Live can deliver. Engineered to follow Lives non linear music environment the book looks and feels like the program, its unique format utilizes the terms and creative features... more...
Music Technology Workbook
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 42.95This practical music technology workbook enables students and teachers to get the best possible results with the available equipment. The workbook provides step-by-step activities for classroom-based and independent project work, covering the skills and techniques used in modern music production. All are related to specific areas of the GCSE, AS/A2... more...
Audio Sampling
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 39.95Bringing sampling to a new generation of audio engineers and composers Audio Sampling explains how to record and create sampled instruments in a software setting. There are many things that go into creating a sampled instrument and many things that can go wrong, this book is a step by step guide through the process, from introducing sampling, where... more...
Pro Tools 8
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 44.95A new edition of this definitive guide to the Pro Tools system for new and professional users. Extensively illustrated in colour and packed with time saving hints and tips the book takes a real-world approach and shows how to build the right system to suit your needs. Detailed chapters on recording, editing and mixing blend essential knowledge with... more...
Music and Politics
Wiley 2013; US$ 24.95It is common to hear talk of how music can inspire crowds, move individuals and mobilise movements. We know too of how governments can live in fear of its effects, censor its sounds and imprison its creators. At the same time, there are other governments that use music for propaganda or for torture. All of these examples speak to the idea of music's... more...
Elvis Memories
Biteback Publishing 2013; US$ 23.32The man, the music, the mythology ? everyone knows Elvis, right? From the swinging hips and tempestuous love life to the peanut butter and banana sandwiches. But how do the iconic snapshots and the snippets of rumour match up with the truth about the man behind the legend? Michael Freedland?s Elvis Memories sets out to answer precisely that question... more...
Sovereign Feminine
University of California Press 2013; US$ 65.00In the German states in the late eighteenth century, women flourished as musical performers and composers, their achievements measuring the progress of culture and society from barbarism to civilization. Female excellence, and related feminocentric values, were celebrated by forward-looking critics who argued for music as a fine art, a component of... more...
iTunes Music
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 29.95Apple?s exciting new Mastered for iTunes (MFiT) initiative, introduced in early 2012, introduces new possibilities for delivering high-quality audio. For the first time, record labels and program producers are encouraged to deliver audio materials to iTunes in a high resolution format, which can produce better-sounding masters. In iTunes Music... more...
Music Navigation with Symbols and Layers
Wiley 2013; US$ 89.95Music is much more than listening to audio encoded in some unreadable binary format. It is, instead, an adventure similar to reading a book and entering its world, complete with a story, plot, sound, images, texts, and plenty of related data with, for instance, historical, scientific, literary, and musicological contents. Navigation of this world,... more...









