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Analyzing Recorded Music: Collected Perspectives on Popular Music Tracks

Analyzing Recorded Music: Collected Perspectives on Popular Music Tracks is a collection of essays dedicated to the study of recorded popular music, with the aim of exploring "how the record shapes the song" (Moylan, Recording Analysis, 2020) from a variety of perspectives. Introduced with a Foreword by Paul Théberge, the distinguished editorial team has brought together a group of reputable international contributors to write about a rich collection of recordings.

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Perspectives on the Music of Christopher Fox: Straight Lines in Broken Times

Christopher Fox (1955) has emerged as one of the most fascinating composers of the post-war generation. His spirit of experimentalism pervades an oeuvre in which he has blithely created his own version of a range of contemporary musical practices. In his work many of the major expressions of European cultural activity - Darmstadt, Fluxus, spectralism, postminimalism and more - are assimilated to produce a voice which is uniquely resonant and multifaceted.

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Dolly Parton All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track

Take a deep dive into Dolly Parton’s almost 60 year career with this complete guide featuring more than 400 photographs, little-known stories behind each album, and behind-the-scenes details about the recording of each track, the musicians involved, and the songwriting process.

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Say It with a Beautiful Song: The Art and Craft of the Great American Songbook

Working within the limits of a popular song, the songwriters of the Great American Songbook wrote with a combination of familiarity and freshness—sentiment and wit. The songwriters were masters of craft who created a distinctively American popular music that still resonates strongly today.

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Da Baddest by Katrina "Trina" Taylor

The award-winning, platinum selling rapper, songwriter, and television personality shares her unforgettable story of coming of age in Miami, her inevitable rise to stardom, and her enduring legacy as a Hip-Hop Icon.

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The Creative Alchemy: Exploring the Intersection of Truth Spiritual Motivation and Artistic Expression in Music Writing and Spirituality

"The Creative Alchemy" is a transformative exploration at the intersection of truth, spiritual motivation, and artistic expression in music, writing, and spirituality. This book unfolds as a vivid tapestry of insights, revealing creativity as a sacred act—a dynamic, mystical process that transcends the ordinary.

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The Best Hits on the Blues Highway: Nashville to New Orleans on Route 61

The legendary Blues Highway has played a key role in the lives of countless musicians. Running from Nashville, Tennessee, to New Orleans, Louisiana, there’s music around every bend. The greatest blues singers, rockers, and country wailers have all traveled this fateful road, U.S. Route 61. From the two-room home where “the King” was born to the original Heartbreak Hotel to the crossroads where Robert Johnson allegedly sold his soul to the devil for fame, every stop has a story to tell.

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501 Essential Albums of the '90s: The Music Fan's Definitive Guide

Gary Graff, "501 Essential Albums of the '90s: The Music Fan's Definitive Guide" Break out the flannel, scrunchies, and high-rise jeans and indulge in this nostalgic illustrated trip through the 1990s’ most influential albums across all genres.

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Only in America: Al Jolson and The Jazz Singer

A probing biography of world-renowned Jewish singer and actor Al Jolson and the history of his performance in and the making of The Jazz Singer Al Jolson, born Asa Yoelson, immigrated from a shtetl in Lithuania to the United States in 1894 after his father secured a job as a rabbi in Washington, D.C. A poor, Yiddish-speaking newcomer navigating a racially segregated and antisemitic America, young Jolson dreamed of becoming a star, and he did.

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Harmony of Healing: The Transformative Power of Music Therapy

Embark on a transformative exploration of music therapy with "Harmony of Healing." This captivating book delves into diverse applications, revealing the interplay of sound and therapy as a catalyst for profound healing and personal growth.

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The Art and Business of Songwriting

In this valuable resource guide for both beginners and professionals, veteran songwriter, producer, arranger, vocalist, music director, and educator Larry D. Batiste shares practical advice and tips from his decades of experience in ways that are bound to help all readers improve their songwriting skills. Through this book, readers will learn the craft of professional songwriting, including the ins-and-outs of song structure, lyric and melody writing, and the essential elements of a hit song.

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Cadence: A Study of Closure in Tonal Music

Cadence is a comprehensive examination of how formal units in European art music of the tonal era achieve closure. The book brings together the author's decades-long investigations into cadence, a compositional device that is readily experienced both by musicians and non-musicians, but one that has proven intractable to clear and precise theoretical formulation.

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Composing for Moving Pictures: The Essential Guide

Making quality moving pictures has never been easier or more affordable, and the proliferation and ease of access to digital recording devices has prompted scores of amateurs to record and post videos to YouTube and its ilk. Paradoxically, however, scoring and arranging music for motion pictures is, in many ways, more complicated now than ever before, requiring extensive knowledge of notation, arranging, recording, and mixing software and multi-component DAW workstations.

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The Oxford Handbook of Music Composition Pedagogy

The Oxford Handbook of Music Composition Pedagogy presents an illuminating collection of perspectives on teaching and learning in the field of music composition, supplying music educators with knowledge about young composers and their work. The Handbook's forward-looking practices offer teachers tools and strategies for every child to experience music composition as part of their music education. Editor Michele Kaschub, along with an outstanding team of contributing authors, offers a comprehensive handbook providing key scholarly, critical, and practical perspectives on teaching composers and learning to compose.

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Musicking TikTok: A Musical Ethnography from a Glocal Austrian Context

This ethnographic work about TikTok's musicking in a glocal (Austrian) context complements and build upon ethnomusicological assumptions, theories, and methods for the study of musical practices in digital spaces.

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Century of Song: 101 Songs that Shaped American Music

Discover the Music that Changed Everything Embark on a complex and inspiring journey through the last 101 years as told through some of the most memorable hits and the artists behind them.

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Understanding Video Game Music

Understanding Video Game Music develops a musicology of video game music by providing methods and concepts for understanding music in this medium. From the practicalities of investigating the video game as a musical source to the critical perspectives on game music - using examples including Final Fantasy VII, Monkey Island 2, SSX Tricky and Silent Hill - these explorations not only illuminate aspects of game music, but also provide conceptual ideas valuable for future analysis.

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The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Music Industry Studies

The Handbook of Critical Music Industry Studies provides students and researchers with the means to think about how the performance, recording, and publishing of music could be if we do things differently. People are hungry for a more equitable music performance and recording system.

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Slime Green Beats How to Mix Beats

Unlock the secrets of professional beat mixing with "How to Mix Beats" by Slime Green Beats. This full guide is for aspiring and experienced music producers. They want to boost their mixing and mastering skills. The book has practical tips, industry insights, and hands-on examples. It covers all you need to know to create great beats. These beats stand out in the tough music industry.

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Like Lockdown Never Happened: Music and Culture During Covid

During the COVID-19 pandemic, music listening increased as people used it to help to counter the psychological fallout of lockdown and reduce its effects of isolation, restriction and boredom. At the same time, concerts and other musical events moved online, and even when lockdown eased, social distancing meant that group musical and cultural events took on a different format.

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