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  • The Billboard Guide to Writing and Producing Songs that Sell

    How to Create Hits in Today's Music Industry

    by Eric Beall ...
    The Billboard Guide to Writing and Producing Songs that Sell unveils the secrets to climbing the charts and reaching success in today’s ultracompetitive music industry. Eric Beall supplies his firsthand knowledge of today’s record business, as well as interviews with successful writers, producers, and executives from the worlds of pop, hip-hop, country, adult contemporary, and R&B. The result: a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD $11.99 USD

  • Once Upon a Time in Shaolin

    The Untold Story of Wu-Tang Clan's Million-Dollar Secret Album, the Devaluation of Music, and America's New Public Enemy No. 1

    The untold story of the world's most controversial album---a surreal tale of secret recordings, the Wu-Tang Clan, baffled customs agents, the world's most hallowed art institutions, and a villain of comic book proportions: Martin Shkreli.In 2007, the innovative young Wu-Tang producer, Cilvaringz, took an incendiary idea to his mentor the RZA. They felt that the impact of digitization threatened ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • This Business of Artist Management

    The Standard Reference to All Phases of Managing a Musician's Career from Both the Artist's and Manager's Point of View

    This authoritative reference on artist management in the music industry is the standard for all phases of managing a musician's career from both the artist's and manager's point of view. This substantially updated edition covers the major changes that have transformed the business world and music industry over the past six years. Particular emphasis is given to the impact of the Internet, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD $4.99 USD

  • Audio Post Production

    For Film and Television

    by Mark Cross ...
    (Berklee Guide). Learn the essential skills to enter the audio post-production industry. This book offers a broad coverage of audio post production, including the four basic elements: dialogue, music, sound effects, and Foley effects. You will learn strategies for working with composers, music supervisors, and dialogue and sound effect editors, and explore techniques on how to edit songs to fit a ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Marketing the Arts

    An Introduction

    by Anthony Rhine ...
    With limited budgets and resources, arts ventures are struggling to employ modern marketing methods to promote their events. Marketing the Arts introduces students, young professionals, and even seasoned veterans to new and refined marketing approaches—by drawing on marketing theory as it is used by huge multi-nationals, exploring such theories in the context of creative ventures generally, and ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • VJ

    The Unplugged Adventures of MTV's First Wave

    **In this “**highly entertaining snapshot of a wild-frontier moment in pop culture” (Rolling Stone), discover the wild and explosive true story of the early years of MTV directly from the original VJs.Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, and Martha Quinn (along with the late J. J. Jackson) had front-row seats to a cultural revolution—and the hijinks of pop music icons like Adam Ant, Cyndi ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $11.99 USD

  • Music and Mystique in Muscle Shoals

    Series series Music in American Life
    A No Depression Most Memorable Music Book of 2022The forceful music that rolled out of Muscle Shoals in the 1960s and 1970s shaped hits by everyone from Wilson Pickett and Aretha Franklin to the Rolling Stones and Paul Simon. Christopher M. Reali's in-depth look at the fabled musical hotbed examines the events and factors that gave the Muscle Shoals sound such a potent cultural power. Many artists ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Who Killed Mister Moonlight?

    Bauhaus, Black Magick and Benediction

    ‘Heroic and absurd, scurrilous and profound, Who Killed Mister Moonlight? charts the descent of four intelligent young men with faces like rubyeyed dimestore skull rings into a glittering and very modern maelstrom. Fast, compelling, and disarmingly honest, this is an invaluable account of a strange and spectral cultural twilight era that we shall almost certainly never see again. Highly ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Music Production

    A Manual for Producers, Composers, Arrangers, and Students

    In an age when the recording industry is undergoing its most radical change in over half a century, the guidance of a skilled music producer is quickly becoming indispensable for producing a great recording.Music Production: A Manual for Producers, Composers, Arrangers, and Students, Third Edition serves as a comprehensive road map for navigating the continuous transformations in the music ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Ableton Live 101

    An Introduction to Ableton Live 10

    Series series 101 Series
    Learn the basics of producing music with Ableton Live software. Ableton Live has become one of the most popular platforms for music production since its introduction in 2001. Its intuitive interface allows beginners to make music right away, while offering deep functionality to satisfy even the most advanced user.Ableton Live 101 and the included online media files will guide you through the ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Personal Finance for Musicians

    Series series Music Pro Guides
    Are you tired of living paycheck-to-paycheck, being broke and in debt, and watching everyone else become independently wealthy? Well, you’ve come to the right place. Most musicians will admit they know little about personal finance.In Personal Finance for Musicians, music industry and finance experts Bobby Borg and Britt Hatsey coach you on how to:Make and save moneyIncrease your credit ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The 4 Element Synth

    The Secrets of Subtractive Synthesis

    by Rob Papen ...
    This 224 page book, which is accompanied by online media with over 10 hours of content, gives an in-depth insight into Rob’s approach of working with subtractive synthesis.In 2001, Rob Papen began giving exclusive masterclasses teaching 'synthesizer sound design" in his studio. For these training sessions, Rob developed his own method to explain the secrets of subtractive synthesis, called "The 4 ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Beethoven

    The Universal Composer

    by Edmund Morris ...
    Series series Eminent Lives
    Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was a genius so universal that his popularity, extraordinary even during his lifetime, has never ceased to grow. It now encircles the globe: Beethoven's most famous works are as beloved in Beijing as they are in Boston.Edmund Morris, the author of three bestselling presidential biographies and a lifelong devotee of Beethoven, brings the great composer to life as a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • JBL Audio Engineering for Sound Reinforcement

    This up-to-date book comprehensively covers all aspects of speech and music sound reinforcement. It is roughly divided into four sections: Section 1 provides the tutorial fundamentals that all audio engineers will need, discussing subjects such as fundamentals of acoustics, psychoacoustics, basic electrical theory and digital processing. Section 2 deals with the fundamental classes of hardware ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Marketing Strategy for the Creative and Cultural Industries

    by Bonita Kolb ...
    Series series Discovering the Creative Industries
    Developing and executing marketing strategies is a vital aspect of any business and few books currently cover this with relation to creative industries. This textbook provides students and managers in the creative industries with a solid grounding in how to maximize the impact of their marketing efforts across a range of business types in the creative and cultural industries.The author, an ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • In the Groove

    The Vinyl Record and Turntable Revolution

    Celebrate the 75th anniversary of the first commercial LP with this authoritative, highly illustrated, and multi-faceted look at the history and culture of vinyl record collecting and turntables.Vinyl records continue to be hot commodities among everyone from obsessive audiophiles to newbie collectors getting their toes wet. In the Groove: The Vinyl Record and Turntable Revolution is the book for ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Hit Men

    Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business

    Copiously researched and documented, Hit Men is the highly controversial portrait of the pop music industry in all its wild, ruthless glory: the insatiable greed and ambition; the enormous egos; the fierce struggles for profits and power; the vendettas, rivalries, shakedowns, and payoffs. Chronicling the evolution of America's largest music labels from the Tin Pan Alley days to the present day, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Pop Song Piracy

    Disobedient Music Distribution since 1929

    The music industry’s ongoing battle against digital piracy is just the latest skirmish in a long conflict over who has the right to distribute music. Starting with music publishers’ efforts to stamp out bootleg compilations of lyric sheets in 1929, Barry Kernfeld’s Pop Song Piracy details nearly a century of disobedient music distribution from song sheets to MP3s.In the 1940s and ’50s, Kernfeld ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • How to Write One Song

    by Jeff Tweedy ...
    There are few creative acts more mysterious and magical than writing a song. But what if the goal wasn't so mysterious and was actually achievable for anyone who wants to experience more magic and creativity in their life? That's something that anyone will be inspired to do after reading Jeff Tweedy's How to Write One Song.Why one song? Because the difference between one song and many songs isn't ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Business Basics for Musicians

    The Complete Handbook from Start to Success

    by Bobby Borg ...
    Series series Music Pro Guides
    Today, when artists are empowered to take greater control of their careers and earnings, the need for musicians to understand the business of music has never been greater. In a digital age overflowing with confusing and ever-changing information, musicians need trusted business advice from a veteran artist who can break down the basics in language they understand. Written by a professional ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Understanding Audio

    Getting the Most Out of Your Project or Professional Recording Studio

    (Berklee Guide). Understanding Audio explores the fundamentals of audio and acoustics that impact every stage of the music recording process. Whether you are a musician setting up your first Pro Tools project studio, or you are a seasoned recording engineer or producer eager to find a reference that fills in the gaps in your understanding of audio, this book is for you. Understanding Audio will ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Facts of Life

    and Other Dirty Jokes

    by Willie Nelson ...
    If you had to give America a voice, it’s been said more than once, that voice would be Willie Nelson’s. For more than fifty years, he’s taken the stuff of his life-the good and the bad-and made from it a body of work that has become a permanent part of our musical heritage and kept us company through the good and the bad of our own lives. Long before he became famous as a performer, Willie Nelson ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Here, There and Everywhere

    My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles

    An all-access, firsthand account of the life and music of one of history's most beloved bands--from an original mastering engineer at Abbey RoadGeoff Emerick became an assistant engineer at the legendary Abbey Road Studios in 1962 at age fifteen, and was present as a new band called the Beatles recorded their first songs. He later worked with the Beatles as they recorded their singles “She Loves ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Writing Better Lyrics

    by Pat Pattison ...
    The Must-Have Guide for Songwriters Writing Better Lyrics has been a staple for songwriters for nearly two decades. Now this revised and updated 2nd Edition provides effective tools for everything from generating ideas, to understanding the form and function of a song, to fine-tuning lyrics. Perfect for new and experienced songwriters alike, this time-tested classic covers the basics in addition ... Read more

    $13.99 USD