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Your Playlist Can Change Your Lifeby Joseph Cardillo; Don DuRousseau; Galina Mindlin
Sourcebooks 2012; US$ 9.99Unlock the power of the songs in your pocket Maybe you blast the speakers when you need to get pumped up. If that's all you do, though, you're not taking full advantage of the way music can help you. Listen to a slower track first and the one-two punch of the playlist can push you even higher. Overflowing with easy-to-use tips like these, Your Playlist Can Change Your Life is the first book to offer scientifically proven methods for using your favorite music to enhance your life. You'll discover how you can use the tunes you love to: ?Relieve anxiety ?Increase your alertness ?Feel happier ?Organize your brain ?Sharpen your memory ?Improve your mood ?Live creatively ?Enhance your ability to fight off stress, insomnia, depression,... more...
World Musicby Terry Miller; Andrew Shahriari
Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 75.95The second edition of World Music: A Global Journey introduces students to the diversity of musical expression around the world. It takes the reader across the globe to experience cultural traditions that challenge the ear, the mind, and the spirit. It pr more...
Start and Run Your Own Record Label, Third Editionby Daylle Deanna Schwartz
Crown Publishing Group 2010; US$ 16.99For everyone interested in starting a record label–to market new talent or to release and promote their own music–there has never been a better time to do it! Music can be released, distributed, and promoted for a fraction of traditional costs. Veteran author and music-business consultant Daylle Deanna Schwartz (who started and ran her own label) has rewritten and expanded her classic, Start & Run Your Own Record Label , to reflect industry changes and new opportunities for marketing music in today’s climate. Start & Run Your Own Record Label is a comprehensive guidebook to building a record label, packed with how-to information about market trends and revenue streams for music releases. In addition to updated... more...
Global Jukeboxby Robert Burnett
Routledge 1995; US$ 42.95The first comprehensive study of the international popular music industry. The book examines how the industry is responding to the need to produce global starand discusses the effect of new media technologies. more...
Musical Performanceby Stan Godlovitch
Routledge 1998; US$ 37.95This radical new evaluation of music making in the past and future will be essential reading for students of aesthetics, the philosophy of music, as well as musicologists and performance specialists. more...
Music Genres and Corporate Culturesby Keith Negus
Routledge 1999; US$ 37.95Music Genres and Corporate Cultures explores the relationship between economics and culture, and between corporate organisation and cultural forms. more...
Inside the Music Businessby Julian Newby; Tony Barrow
Routledge 1994; US$ 37.95For aspiring career builders in the music business this book provides a fascinating insight and a wealth of detail on the rock and pop industry. The book includes routes into the music business and a directory listing. more...
Irresistible Forcesby Trevor Merriden
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2001; US$ 29.95This book is about - but not only about - Napster. The story of Napster is important in its own right, but its legacy even more so. The phenomenon that surrounds Napster has highlighted the extraordinary potential for the mass mobilisation of consumer and community power. This irresistible force - the underground Internet - has blown apart conventional models of doing business. Merriden charts the birth of Napster and its genesis in Internet music communities. He describes in detail how big businesses felt complacent enough to ignore Napster, only to turn on it when the truth about their business models dawned. As the big companies got nasty, Bertelsmann and Thomas Middelhof broke ranks and did a deal with Napster. The rapid spread in Napster's... more...
Living Through Popby Andrew Blake
Routledge 1999; US$ 39.95Living Through Pop explores pop's history and the ways in which it has been produced by musicians, broadcasters, critics and fans. more...
Media Policy and Music Activityby Roger Wallis; Krister Malm
Routledge 1993; US$ 45.95Case studies are combined with a broad theoretical approach to look at the relationship between policies governing the output of the music media and music activity in society. more...