Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Sing For Your Supper Sing For Your Supper David Rovics Succinct and to the point, David Rovics demystifies the very different skills necessary to cultivate the arts of songwriting, guitar-playing and tour booking. In an era when the truly independent rec… OL15179986W
Rock music Rock music Mark Stuart Spicer "This volume gathers together twenty articles from among the best scholarly writing on rock music published in academic journals over the past two decades. These diverse essays reflect the wide range… OL16694370W
Logic Pro 8 Logic Pro 8 Mark Cousins Record, edit, mix, master and create music with Logic 8. OL16970408W
Norton Guide to Teaching Music Theory Norton Guide to Teaching Music Theory Rachel Lumsden,Jeffrey Swinkin The ultimate resource for music theory teachers and pedagogy classes. Featuring twenty-three essays by outstanding teacher-scholars on topics ranging from feminist pedagogy to Schenkerian theory, The… OL17867476W
Bringing music to life Bringing music to life Green, Barry Ideal for amateurs and professionals alike, this innovative, imaginative guide demonstrates how musicians can reach their full potential. Delving deeply into the methodology and inspiration required … OL17871798W
Oh boy! Oh boy! Freya Jarman-Ivens "From Muddy Waters to Mick Jagger, Elvis to Freddie Mercury, Jeff Buckley to Justin Timberlake, masculinity in popular music has been an issue explored by performers, critics, and audiences. From the… OL19662698W
Interpreting music Interpreting music Lawrence Kramer This is a comprehensive essay on musical meaning and performing music meaningfully - 'interpreting music' in both senses of the term. The author argues that music, far from being closed to interpreta… OL19858735W
Paolo Noël Paolo Noël Paolo Noël La réussite de Paolo l'entraîne dans un tourbillon où il perd de vue ses priorités. Marié, père de jeunes enfants, il se sent constamment tiraillé entre sa carrière, qu'il veut poursuivre à tout prix… OL21181502W
A listen to world music A listen to world music Jennifer Reed This book covers ethnomusicology, the study of world music. It explores music from all over the world, steeped in the history and traditions of the people who make it, from Latin America to the Celti… OL24282644W
The Craft of Tonal Counterpoint The Craft of Tonal Counterpoint Thomas Benjamin "The Craft of Tonal Counterpoint is a practical text for the analysis and composition of tonal counterpoint. Tonal contrapuntal technique is fundamental to all classical music from the Baroque era th… OL2965083W
How high should boys sing? How high should boys sing? Martin Ashley Martin Ashley presents a unique consideration of boys' singing that shows the high voice to be historically, culturally and physiologically more problematic even than is commonly assumed. Through Ash… OL3010711W
Walking among giants Walking among giants Bobby Wood If you browse through the greatest recordings in history, you will find one name appearing again and again--Bobby Wood. Bobby has left his mark on this world one lick at a time. His ability to create… OL31211069W
Taking Popular Music Seriously (Ashgate Contemporary Thinkers on Critical Musicology) Taking Popular Music Seriously (Ashgate Contemporary Thinkers on Critical Musicology) Simon Frith As a sociologist Simon Frith takes the starting point that music is the result of the play of social forces, whether as an idea, an experience or an activity. The essays in this important collection … OL3232922W
Music in Everyday Life Music in Everyday Life Tia DeNora The power of music to influence mood, create scenes, routines and occasions is widely recognised and this is reflected in a strand of social theory from Plato to Adorno that portrays music as an infl… OL3505052W
The Musician's Guide to Pro Tools The Musician's Guide to Pro Tools John Keane This expertly written guide will show you exactly why Pro Tools shrinks a full music studio into a computer, replacing the bulky recording infrastructure of multi-track analog mixing boards and rolls… OL8046750W
Music and the performance of identity on Marie-Galante, French Antilles Music and the performance of identity on Marie-Galante, French Antilles Ron Emoff "Marie-Galante is a small island situated in the Caribbean to the south of Guadeloupe. The majority of Marie-Galantais are descendants of the slave era, though a few French settlers also occupy the i… OL8104649W
Brown Eyed Handsome Man Brown Eyed Handsome Man Bruce Pegg "Brown Eyed Handsome Man: The Life and Hard Times of Chuck Berry draws on voluminous public records and dozens of interviews done by the author himself to paint a complete picture of this complicated… OL8104716W
The Day the Country Died The Day the Country Died Ian Glasper Summary:In this revealing history, author, historian, and musician Ian Glasper explores in minute detail the influential and esoteric UK anarcho-punk scene of the early 1980s. Where some of the color… OL8932022W