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Some people are crazy. The John Martyn story
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ISBN: 9781846970580 Year: 2008 Publisher: Edinburgh : Polygon,

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Nick Drake. Complete guide to his music
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ISBN: 9781847729378 Year: 2009 Publisher: Omnibus Press,

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John Prine
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ISBN: 1477325948 9781477325940 Year: 2022 Publisher: Austin

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With a range that spans the lyrical, heartfelt songs “Angel from Montgomery,” “Sam Stone,” and “Paradise” to the classic country music parody “You Never Even Called Me by My Name,” John Prine is a songwriter’s songwriter. Across five decades, Prine has created critically acclaimed albums—John Prine (one of Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time), Bruised Orange, and The Missing Years—and earned many honors, including two Grammy Awards, a Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting from the Americana Music Association, and induction into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. His songs have been covered by scores of artists, from Johnny Cash and Miranda Lambert to Bette Midler and 10,000 Maniacs, and have influenced everyone from Roger McGuinn to Kacey Musgraves. Hailed in his early years as the “new Dylan,” Prine still counts Bob Dylan among his most enthusiastic fans. In John Prine, Eddie Huffman traces the long arc of Prine’s musical career, beginning with his early, seemingly effortless successes, which led paradoxically not to stardom but to a rich and varied career writing songs that other people have made famous. He recounts the stories, many of them humorous, behind Prine’s best-known songs and discusses all of Prine’s albums as he explores the brilliant records and the ill-advised side trips, the underappreciated gems and the hard-earned comebacks that led Prine to found his own successful record label, Oh Boy Records. This thorough, entertaining treatment gives John Prine his due as one of the most influential songwriters of his generation.

Things the grandchildren should know.
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ISBN: 9780316027878 Year: 2008 Publisher: Londen : Little, Brown,

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Making Money, Making Music : History and Core Concepts
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ISBN: 0520966066 9780520966062 9780520292581 0520292588 9780520292598 0520292596 Year: 2016 Publisher: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press,

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Making Money, Making Music offers tools to encourage creative and adaptive entrepreneurship in the music business. Written for the classroom and the workplace, it introduces readers to core principles and processes and shows how to apply them adaptively to new contexts, facilitating a deeper understanding of how and why things work in the music business. By applying essential concepts to a variety of real-life situations, readers improve their capacity to critically analyze and solve problems and to predict where music and money will converge in a rapidly evolving culture and marketplace.


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I wonder U : how Prince went beyond race and back
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ISBN: 1978805209 1978805179 1978805160 Year: 2020 Publisher: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press,

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In 1993, Prince infamously changed his name to a unique, unpronounceable symbol. Yet this was only one of a long string of self-reinventions orchestrated by Prince as he refused to be typecast by the music industry’s limiting definitions of masculinity and femininity, of straightness and queerness, of authenticity and artifice, or of black music and white music. Revealing how he continually subverted cultural expectations, I Wonder U examines the entirety of Prince’s diverse career as a singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, producer, record label mogul, movie star, and director. It shows how, by blending elements of R&B, rock, and new wave into an extremely videogenic package, Prince was able to overcome the color barrier that kept black artists off of MTV. Yet even at his greatest crossover success, he still worked hard to retain his credibility among black music fans. In this way, Adilifu Nama suggests, Prince was able to assert a distinctly black political sensibility while still being perceived as a unique musical genius whose appeal transcended racial boundaries.


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Hugo Chávez, Alí Primera and Venezuela : The Politics of Music in Latin America
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ISBN: 1137579676 1137579684 Year: 2016 Publisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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Unlike much of the literature on Venezuela in the Chávez period, this book shifts focus away from 'top down' perspectives to examine how Venezuelan folksinger Alí Primera (1942-1985) became intertwined with Venezuelan politics, both during his lifetime and posthumously. Alí’s ‘Necessary Songs’ offered cultural resources that enabled Chávez to connect with pre-existing patterns of grassroots activism in ways that resonated deeply with the poor and marginalised masses. Official support for Alí’s legacy led the songs to be used in new ways in the Chávez period, as Venezuelans actively engaged with them to redefine themselves in relation to the state and to reach new understandings of their place within a changed society. This book is essential reading not only for those interested in popular music and politics, but for all those seeking to better understand how Chávez was able to successfully identify himself so profoundly with the Venezuelan masses, and they with him. .

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History. --- Music. --- America --- Civilization --- Cultural History. --- History of the Americas. --- Music --- Latin American music --- Music, Latin-American --- Civilization-History. --- America-History. --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- Civilization—History. --- America—History. --- Primera, Alí, --- Chávez Frías, Hugo. --- Primera, Alí --- Chávez Frías, Hugo --- Venezuela. --- Lateinamerika --- Venezuela --- Frías, Hugo Chávez --- Chávez-Frías, Hugo --- Chávez, Hugo --- Chávez Frías, Hugo Rafael --- Politiker --- Offizier --- Sabaneta --- Caracas --- 1954-2013 --- 28.07.1954-05.03.2013 --- Primera Rosell, Alí Rafael --- Rosell, Alí Rafael Primera --- Sänger --- Songwriter --- Coro --- 1942-1985 --- Primera Rosell, Alí Rafael, --- Rosell, Alí Rafael Primera, --- Chaves, Ugo --- República Bolivariana de Venezuela --- République du Venezuela --- Bolivarische Republik Venezuela --- República de Venezuela --- Federación Venezolana --- Vereinigte Staaten von Venezuela --- Estados Unidos de Venezuela --- Republik Venezuela --- United States of Venezuela --- Etats-Unis de Vénézuéla --- Iberoamerika --- Lateinamerikaner --- Balivaryi͡anskai͡a Rėspublika Venesuėla --- Benezuera --- Benezuera Boribaru Kyōwakoku --- Bolivarcı Venezuela Cumhuriyeti --- Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela --- Bolivarianē Dēmokratia tēs Venezouelas --- Bolivarianska republiken Venezuela --- Bolivarianskai͡a Respublika Venesuėla --- Bolivarska Republika Venecuela --- Bolivarska republika Venet͡suela --- Bolivaryansʹka Respublika Venesuela --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Bolivaryn Venesuėl Uls --- Gobierno Bolivariano --- Penesuella --- Penesuella Bollibarŭ Konghwaguk --- Republic of Venezuela --- República Bolivariana de Venezuela --- República de Venezuela --- Venecuela --- Venesuėl --- Venesuėla --- Venet͡suela --- Venezouela --- Venezuelan bolivariaaninen tasavalta --- Weineiruila --- Weineiruila Boliwa'er Gongheguo --- Wenesuela --- Wenesuela Boliwar Respublikasy


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Digital renaissance : what data and economics tell us about the future of popular culture
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ISBN: 0691185433 Year: 2018 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press,

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How digital technology is upending the traditional creative industries-and why that might be a good thingThe digital revolution poses a mortal threat to the major creative industries-music, publishing, television, and the movies. The ease with which digital files can be copied and distributed has unleashed a wave of piracy with disastrous effects on revenue. Cheap, easy self-publishing is eroding the position of these gatekeepers and guardians of culture. Does this revolution herald the collapse of culture, as some commentators claim? Far from it. In Digital Renaissance, Joel Waldfogel argues that digital technology is enabling a new golden age of popular culture, a veritable digital renaissance.By reducing the costs of production, distribution, and promotion, digital technology is democratizing access to the cultural marketplace. More books, songs, television shows, and movies are being produced than ever before. Nor does this mean a tidal wave of derivative, poorly produced kitsch; analyzing decades of production and sales data, as well as bestseller and best-of lists, Waldfogel finds that the new digital model is just as successful at producing high-quality, successful work as the old industry model, and in many cases more so. The vaunted gatekeeper role of the creative industries proves to have been largely mythical. The high costs of production have stifled creativity in industries that require ever-bigger blockbusters to cover the losses on ever-more-expensive failures.Are we drowning in a tide of cultural silt, or living in a golden age for culture? The answers in Digital Renaissance may surprise you.

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Cultural industries --- Cultural property --- Popular culture. --- Technological innovations. --- Protection. --- Airplay. --- Asher. --- Author. --- Availability. --- Billboard 200. --- Bollywood. --- Book. --- Box office. --- Bruce Springsteen. --- Calculation. --- Career. --- Charles Dickens. --- Cinema of the United States. --- Cinemax. --- Clive Davis. --- Copy protection. --- Copyright. --- Cost reduction. --- Creative industries. --- Creative work. --- Cultural industry. --- Customer. --- DVD. --- Digital camera. --- E-book. --- Economist. --- Episode. --- File sharing. --- Film industry. --- Filmmaking. --- Fraud. --- HarperCollins. --- Hemlock Grove (TV series). --- Home appliance. --- Home video. --- Hulu. --- IMDb. --- ITunes Store. --- ITunes. --- Income. --- Independent record label. --- Intellectual property. --- Internet. --- Justin Bieber. --- Kindle Direct Publishing. --- Long tail. --- Low-budget film. --- Major film studio. --- Make Money. --- Marginal cost. --- Marketing. --- Metacritic. --- Music Is. --- Music industry. --- MusicBrainz. --- Myspace. --- Napster. --- Narcos. --- Netflix. --- Network effect. --- Newspaper. --- Nielsen SoundScan. --- Novelist. --- OR Books. --- Payment. --- Payola. --- Percentage. --- Photographer. --- Photography. --- Piracy. --- Policy. --- Popular music. --- Production budget. --- Publication. --- Publicity. --- Publishing. --- Quantity. --- Record label. --- Recording Industry Association of America. --- Retail. --- Rotten Tomatoes. --- Self-publishing. --- Sibling. --- Songwriter. --- Spotify. --- Streaming media. --- Subscription business model. --- TV listings (UK). --- Technological change. --- Technology. --- Telecommunication. --- Television channel. --- Television program. --- Television. --- The New York Times. --- Theft. --- Website. --- Wide Variety. --- Year. --- YouTube.

Charles Ives and His World
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ISBN: 0691011648 069101163X Year: 1996 Volume: *2 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,

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This volume shows Charles Ives in the context of his world in a number of revealing ways. Five new essays examine Ives's relationships to European music and to American music, politics, business, and landscape. J. Peter Burkholder shows Ives as a composer well versed in four distinctive musical traditions who blended them in his mature music. Leon Botstein explores the paradox of how, in the works of Ives and Mahler, musical modernism emerges from profoundly antimodern sensibilities. David Michael Hertz reveals unsuspected parallels between one of Ives's most famous pieces, the Concord Piano Sonata, and the piano sonatas of Liszt and Scriabin. Michael Broyles sheds new light on Ives's political orientation and on his career in the insurance business, and Mark Tucker shows the importance for Ives of his vacations in the Adirondacks and the representation of that landscape in his music. The remainder of the book presents documents that illuminate Ives's personal life. A selection of some sixty letters to and from Ives and his family, edited and annotated by Tom C. Owens, is the first substantial collection of Ives correspondence to be published. Two sections of reviews and longer profiles published during his lifetime highlight the important stages in the reception of Ives's music, from his early works through the premieres of his most important compositions to his elevation as an almost mythic figure with a reputation among some critics as America's greatest composer.

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Ives, Charles, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Correspondence. --- Critique et interprétation --- Correspondance --- Critique et interprétation --- Ives, Charles Edward --- Criticism and interpretation --- Correspondence --- Ives, Charles, - 1874-1954 - Criticism and interpretation. --- Ives, Charles, - 1874-1954 - Correspondence. --- Composers --- Muziekwerken. --- Aufsatzsammlung --- Ives, Charles. --- Ives, Charles --- Critique et interpretation. --- Aaron Copland. --- Alexander Scriabin. --- American Tune. --- American popular music. --- Antonín Dvorák. --- Arnold Schoenberg. --- Art music. --- Atonality. --- Bernard Herrmann. --- Career. --- Carl Ruggles. --- Charles Ives. --- Choir. --- Church music. --- Claude Debussy. --- Composer. --- Contemporary classical music. --- Creative work. --- Dissonant. --- Dudley Buck. --- E. Robert Schmitz. --- Early music. --- Entrance (musician). --- Ernest Walker (composer). --- Example (musician). --- Experimental music. --- Felix Mendelssohn. --- For Example. --- Franz Liszt. --- Gilbert and Sullivan. --- Gospel Song (19th century). --- Gustav Mahler. --- Half note. --- Harry Lauder. --- Hear the Music. --- Henry Bellamann. --- Henry Cowell. --- Horatio Parker. --- Hymn tune. --- Igor Stravinsky. --- Illustration. --- Improvisation. --- Insurance. --- Johann Sebastian Bach. --- Johannes Brahms. --- John Cage. --- La mer (Debussy). --- Leon Botstein. --- Leonard Bernstein. --- Lou Harrison. --- Ludwig van Beethoven. --- Maynard Solomon. --- Metre (music). --- Modernism (music). --- Modulation (music). --- Music Is. --- Music history. --- Music theory. --- Musical "ation. --- Musical composition. --- Musical expression. --- Musician. --- New York Philharmonic. --- Newspaper. --- Nicolas Slonimsky. --- Olin Downes. --- Orchestra. --- Organist. --- Paul Hindemith. --- Philosopher. --- Phrase (music). --- Piano Music (Louie). --- Piano. --- Polyrhythm. --- Polytonality. --- Popular music. --- Prose. --- Rhythm. --- Richard Strauss. --- Schumann. --- Singing. --- Sonata in B minor (Liszt). --- Songwriter. --- Stuart. --- Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven). --- Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven). --- The Musical Quarterly. --- The New York Times. --- The Orchestra. --- Three Places in New England. --- Time signature. --- Tonality. --- Tone cluster. --- Transcendentalism. --- Universe Symphony (Ives). --- Vachel Lindsay. --- Virgil Thomson. --- Writing. --- Yaddo. --- Yale University. --- Songwriters --- Musicians --- Muziekgeschiedenis --- Biografieën --- Brieven --- Essays --- Iconografie --- Muziekkritiek --- Recensies --- Stijlstudies --- Amerika --- Noord-Amerika --- Verenigde Staten van Amerika --- 20e eeuw --- Beiträge --- Einzelbeiträge --- Sammelwerk --- Aĭvz, Ch., --- Aĭvz, Charlʹz, --- Ives, Charles E. --- Ives, Charles Edward, --- Ives, Ch. E. --- Ajvz, Čarlz --- Komponist --- Danbury, Conn. --- New York, NY --- Ives, Harmony T. --- Ives, George E. --- 1874-1954 --- 20.10.1874-19.05.1954

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