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Boss: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band: The Illustrated History

P2P | July 27 2016 | EPUB: 29 MB | PDF: 55 MB
Find out how legendary musician Bruce Springsteen earned his monicker. There's only one Boss; his story is revealed here.Bruce Springsteen is a platinum-shifting, stadium-filling rock star, but he is also more nuanced than that. He is a man of the people, making conventional-and-proud-of-it rock music aimed at the American working class.A supreme songwriter, Springsteen is a rock 'n' roll legend, and this lavishly illustrated book is an examination of his life and music. A comprehensive overview of a fascinating and unique artist, Boss: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band - The Illustrated History is a tribute to Springsteen's body of work, from the rock anthem Born to Run to his sepia-toned analysis of working-class misery, The River.

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Three Songs, Three Singers, Three Nations

2015 | ISBN: 0674187083 | English | 176 pages | PDF | 900 KB
Greil Marcus has been one of the most distinctive voices in American music criticism for over forty years. His books, including Mystery Train and The Shape of Things to Come, traverse soundscapes of folk and blues, rock and punk, attuning readers to the surprising, often hidden affinities between the music and broader streams of American politics and culture.

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21st Century Perspectives on Music, Technology, and Culture

English | ISBN: 1137497599 | 2016 | 218 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This collection examines the multiple ways people listen to, consume, and produce music and sound in an increasingly digital world. Technologies such as social networks, recommendation algorithms, virtual cloud storage, and portable listening devices increasingly mediate both personal and communal experiences with music. While such technologies may be convenient, their unexamined use raises ethical, socio-political, and philosophical questions. This volume brings together multiple contributions which engage with these questions and others posed by emergent musical and social technologies. Drawing upon a range of different areas of inquiry, it provides a varied critical approach to the question of how people interact with music in the modern era and debates the universal themes of modern music consumption.

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Remix and Life Hack in Hip Hop

English | 2016 | ISBN: 946300498X, 9463004998 | 158 Pages | PDF (True) | 1.8 MB
Many hiphoppas labour to sustain Hiphop Kulture in their communities far from the big stages, world tours, and hit singles enjoyed by a shockingly few American hiphoppas. The creative labour of these few mega stars is calculated in billions of dollars. But for most hiphoppas, their creative labour may never get expressed in economic terms. Instead it is expressed in social capital, the production of collective and individual subjectivities, the bonds of love that build and hold communities together, and the healing of broken hearts, broken homes, and broken neighborhoods in broken cities. Hiphop Kulture is NOT a music genre, it is MUCH more, and exploring how the sharing of aesthetic resources builds community, and how situated learning plays a necessary role in cultural sustainability draws out questions that may lead to a model of community located cultural education, and a starting point for a critical pedagogy of music.

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Language, Music, and Computing: First International Workshop, LMAC 2015

English | ISBN: 331927497X | 2016 | 192 pages | PDF | 11 MB
This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Workshop on Language, Music and Computing, LMAC 2015, held in St. Petersburg, Russia, in April 2015.

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Elements of Music, 3rd edition

P2P | July 21 2016 | 6 MB
The Fundamentals Text That Emphasizes Music Making

This music fundamentals textbook is for both aspiring music majors and non-majors. Based on an anthology of works from music literature, it features clear, concise explanations, extensive written exercises, and a variety of suggested in-class activities.

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Free Jazz/Black Power By Philippe Carles

English | ISBN: 1628460393 | 2015 | 277 pages | PDF | 1 MB
In 1971, French jazz critics Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli co-wrote Free Jazz/Black Power, a treatise on the racial and political implications of jazz and jazz criticism. It remains a testimony to the long ignored encounter of radical African American music and French left-wing criticism. Carles and Comolli set out to defend a genre vilified by jazz critics on both sides of the Atlantic by exposing the new sound’s ties to African American culture, history, and the political struggle that was raging in the early 1970s. The two offered a political and cultural history of black presence in the United States to shed more light on the dubious role played by jazz criticism in racial oppression.

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Creating Jazz Counterpoint: New Orleans, Barbershop Harmony, and the Blues

2014 | ISBN-10: 1617039918, 1496807782 | 224 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The book Jazzmen (1939) claimed New Orleans as the birthplace of jazz and introduced the legend of Buddy Bolden as the ""First Man of Jazz."" Much of the information that the book relied on came from a highly controversial source: Bunk Johnson. He claimed to have played with Bolden and that together they had pioneered jazz. Johnson made many recordings talking about and playing the music of the Bolden era. These recordings have been treated with skepticism because of doubts about Johnson's credibility.

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Your Mix Sucks v1.0.1g PDF

P2P April 17 2015 | 4.9 MB
As some of you know, aside from mixing some awesome records I’ve just released a book that sets out to be THE complete methodology for the entire mixing process from preparation to delivery.
In addition to the technical and artistical side of things, the book also deals with the people aspects of the job, from industry networking to dealing with client feedback.

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Mixing In Ableton Live Book 1 - Mix Fundamentals and Preparation

P2P | July 02 2016 | 15 MB
The Zero To Hero Guide To Mixing In Ableton Live is a series of ebooks aimed to educate electronic music producers on a variety of different mixing techniques. Each book will focus on one of the key components of the mix process.

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Programming for Musicians and Digital Artists: Creating music with ChucK

2015 | 344 Pages | ISBN: 1617291706 | EPUB: 9.6 MB | PDF: 9.76 MB
Programming for Musicians and Digital Artists: Creating Music with ChucK offers a complete introduction to programming in the open source music language ChucK. In it, you'll learn the basics of digital sound creation and manipulation while you discover the ChucK language. As you move example-by-example through this easy-to-follow book, you'll create meaningful and rewarding digital compositions and "instruments" that make sound and music in direct response to program logic, scores, gestures, and other systems connected via MIDI or the network.

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The Audio Programming Book

English | Book (PDF) | 283 MB
This comprehensive handbook of mathematical and programming techniques for audio signal processing will be an essential reference for all computer musicians, computer scientists, engineers, and anyone interested in audio. Designed to be used by readers with varying levels of programming expertise, it not only provides the foundations for music and audio development but also tackles issues that sometimes remain mysterious even to experienced software designers.

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A Million Years of Music: The Emergence of Human Modernity

English | 2015 | ISBN: 1935408658 | 368 pages | PDF | 2 MB
What is the origin of music? In the last few decades this centuries-old puzzle has been reinvigorated by new archaeological evidence and developments in the fields of cognitive science, linguistics, and evolutionary theory. In this path-breaking book, renowned musicologist Gary Tomlinson draws from these areas to construct a new narrative for the emergence of human music. Starting at a period of human prehistory long before Homo sapiens or music existed, Tomlinson describes the incremental attainments that, by changing the communication and society of prehumen species, laid the foundation for musical behaviors in more recent times. He traces in Neandertals and early sapiens the accumulation and development of these capacities, and he details their coalescence into modern musical behavior across the last hundred millennia.

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Why You Love Music - From Mozart to Metallica - The Emotional Power of Beautiful Sounds

English | Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (June 14, 2016)
320 Pages | ISBN: 0316260657 | EPUB | 9.20 MB
A delightful journey through the psychology and science of music, WHY YOU LOVE MUSIC is the perfect book for anyone who loves a tune.

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Music Habits - The Mental Game of Electronic Music Production

2015 | 260 pages | ASIN: B00ZJG398U | English | 1 MB
Music Production can be an elusive art form for many, and the challenges that face someone who is new to this can easily create overwhelm and lead to complete paralysis. The goal of this book, is to cover music production from many different angles in a way that will change your thinking on the subject and build your confidence.

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Kanye West Owes Me $300: And Other True Stories from a White Rapper Who Almost Made it Big

2016 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 0553448153 | EPUB: 12.82 MB | PDF: 19.43 MB
After Vanilla Ice, but before Eminem, there was "Hot Karl," the Jewish kid from the L.A. suburbs who became a rap battling legend and then almost became a star. When 12-year old Jensen Karp got his first taste of rapping for crowds at his friend's bar mitzvah in 1991, little did he know that he was taking his first step on a crazy journey one that would end with a failed million-dollar recording and publishing deal with Interscope Records when he was only 19. Now, in "Kanye West Owes Me $300," Karp finally tells the true story of his wild ride as "Hot Karl,"the most famous white rapper you've never heard of. On his way to (almost) celebrity, Jensen shares his childhood run-ins with rock-listening, southern California classmates, who tell him that "rap is for black people," and then recounts his record-breaking rap battling streak on popular radio contest The Roll Call a run that caught the eye of a music industry hungry for new rap voices in the early 00s.

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Guitar: Pentatonic and Blues Scales

2016 | English | 65 pages | ASIN: B01EN4G9Y4 | EPUB: 1.71 MB | PDF: 1.76 MB
Easily Master Pentatonic Scales in Minutes

Quickly and easily learn to play Pentatonic Scales like they're second nature.
Contains Guitar Theory, Pentatonic Licks, Exercises and Sequences

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The Guitar Finger-Gym: Build Stamina, Coordination, Dexterity and Speed on the Guitar

2016 | English | 70 pages | ISBN: 1910403717 | EPUB: 3 MB | PDF: 3 MB
Build and Master Essential Guitar Technique

The Guitar Finger-Gym is a FundESSENTIAL: a condensed and instant guitar technique 'shot-in-the-arm' for electric and acoustic guitarists of any level. It focuses on building a solid foundation of clean, usable guitar technique.

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How to Listen to Jazz by Ted Gioia

English | 2016 | ISBN: 0465060897 | 272 pages | PDF | 2,4 MB
Jazz is the great American art form, its very essence is predicated on freedom and creativity. Its sound unequivocally calls forth narratives of past struggles and future dreams. Yet jazz can be as inscrutable as it is mesmerizing, especially to outsiders who don’t know what to make of improvisation or unexpected shifts in melody or tempo. How does a casual listener learn to understand and appreciate the nuances between the unapologetic and innovative sounds of Louis Armstrong, the complexity of Coleman Hawkin’s saxophone, and the exotic and alluring compositions of Duke Ellington? How does Thelonius Monk fit in alongside Benny Goodman and John Coltrane?

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Your Song Changed My Life

English | 2016 | ISBN: 0062344447 | 288 pages | EPUB: 2.8 MB | PDF: 3.5 MB
From the beloved host and creator of NPR’s All Songs Considered and Tiny Desk Concerts comes an essential oral history of modern music, told in the voices of iconic and up-and-coming musicians, including Dave Grohl, Jimmy Page, Michael Stipe, Carrie Brownstein, Smokey Robinson, and Jeff Tweedy, among others—published in association with NPR Music.

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