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The Girls' Guide to Rocking: How to Start a Band, Book Gigs, and Get Rolling to Rock Stardom
The Girls' Guide to Rocking: How to Start a Band, Book Gigs, and Get Rolling to Rock Stardom
by Jessica Hopper
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From greats like Patti Smith and Cyndi Lauper to TV's Miley Cyrus (Hannah Montana) and Demi Lovato, girls want to rock. They want to start bands, write songs, get up on stage, and kick out the jams. Here's the book to teach them how. Written by an... (read more)

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How to DJ Right: The Art and Science of Playing Records
How to DJ Right: The Art and Science of Playing Records
by Bill Brewster
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DJs have gone from being underpaid live jukeboxes to becoming premier entertainers, producers, businessmen, and musicians capable of commanding admiration from thousands and earning serious money. Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton's Last Night a DJ Saved... (read more)

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Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records, the Indie Label That Got Big and Stayed Small
Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records, the Indie Label That Got Big and Stayed Small
by John Cook
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Merge Records defies everything you've heard about the music business. Started by two twenty-year-old musicians, Merge is a lesson in how to make and market great music on a human scale. The fact that the company is prospering in a failing industry is... (read more)

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Music 3.0: Music Pro Guides
Music 3.0: Music Pro Guides
by Bobby Owsinski
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The paradigm has shifted and everything you knew about the music business has completely changed. Who are the new players in the music business? Why are traditional record labels, television, and radio no longer factors in an artist's success? How do you... (read more)

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All You Need to Know about the Music Business (All You Need to Know about the Music Business)
All You Need to Know about the Music Business (All You Need to Know about the Music Business)
by Donald S. Passman
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Since the advent of file-sharing technology in the late 1990s, the music industry has been challenged to reinvent itself. What has it done? How have the record labels repositioned themselves to cope with these massive changes? How does all this affect... (read more)

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Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age
Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age
by Steve Knopper
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For the first time, Appetite for Self-Destruction recounts the epic story of the precipitous rise and fall of the recording industry over the past three decades, when the incredible success of the CD turned the music business into one of the most... (read more)

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A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs
A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs
by David Lehman
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In A Fine Romance, David Lehman looks at the formation of the American songbook--the timeless numbers that became jazz standards, iconic love songs, and sound tracks to famous movies--and explores the extraordinary fact that this songbook was written... (read more)

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The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer
The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer
by Johnny Mercer
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The seventh volume in Knopf's critically acclaimed Complete Lyrics series, published in Johnny Mercer's centennial year, contains the texts to more than 1,200 of his lyrics, several hundred of them published here for the first time. Johnny Mercer's early... (read more)

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Tunesmith: Inside the Art of Songwriting
Tunesmith: Inside the Art of Songwriting
by Jimmy Webb
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The wunderkind of pop music, Jimmy Webb became the hottest songwriter around when, starting at age twenty-one, he wrote a string of hits recorded by Glen Campbell ("By the Time I Get to Phoenix", "Galveston"), the Fifth Dimension ("Up, Up and Away"), and... (read more)

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Rock On: An Office Power Ballad
Rock On: An Office Power Ballad
by Dan Kennedy
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Cleverly written and feverishly funny, Rock On is Dan Kennedy's account of his music-biz shenanigans at Atlantic Records. Written with entertaining and self-deprecating wit, Kennedy’s off-the-wall confrontations and dealings make for irresistible... (read more)

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Through the Wire: Lyrics & Illuminations
Through the Wire: Lyrics & Illuminations
by Kanye West
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A collection of lyrics from songs by award-winning rapper Kanye West--illustrated with memorable drawings by renowned graphic artist Bill Plympton.... (read more)

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Basic Kit Repair
Basic Kit Repair
by Robbie Gladwell
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A pocket-sized compendium of short-cuts, safety measures and "how to" facts for any musician or sound recordist.... (read more)

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The Music Business (Explained in Plain English): What Every Artist and Songwriter Should Know to Avoid Getting Ripped Off!
The Music Business (Explained in Plain English): What Every Artist and Songwriter Should Know to Avoid Getting Ripped Off!
by David Naggar
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This revised, updated and expanded edition offers savvy dealmaking techniques, methods to protect musical works, and career-building and money-saving tips for musicians. Artists and songwriters need this advice.... (read more)

Available January 2010
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This Business of Music
This Business of Music
by M Will Krasilovsky
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A perennial bestseller, this definitive guide to all legal, economic, and financial aspects of the music business better than ever in its revised, thoroughly updated new edition, now accompanied by a compact disc with ready-to-use contracts and essential... (read more)

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Modern Recording Techniques 5th Edition
Modern Recording Techniques 5th Edition
by David Miles Huber
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As the most up-to-date, authoritative recording guide available, Modern Recording Techniques addresses the rapidly growing market of project studio recording, the large base of home music production using multitrack, hard-disk, and MIDI technologies. It... (read more)

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Best Music Writing 2009 (Da Capo Best Music Writing)
Best Music Writing 2009 (Da Capo Best Music Writing)
by Greil Marcus
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Best Music Writing has faithfully collected the year's most compelling writing on music for a decade now, so it's appropriate this special edition be guest-edited by one of the best-known writers on music and popular culture, Greil Marcus, author of... (read more)

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The Big Book of Staff Paper
The Big Book of Staff Paper
by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation (edt)
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This 1-1/4 inch.-thick edition is the ultimate book of staff paper - perfect for students, teachers, or any musician! It includes 512 perforated pages with 12 staves per page, plus a helpful music notation guide. 8-1/2 inch. x 11 inch..... (read more)

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In His Own Write
In His Own Write
by John Lennon
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About The AwfulGod help and breed you all.... (read more)

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The Craft of Lyric Writing
The Craft of Lyric Writing
by Sheila Davis
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Successful author and songwriter, Davis provides a complete guide to writing words for and to music, showing how to create lyrics with universal appeal.... (read more)

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The MIDI Companion
The MIDI Companion
by Jeffrey Rona
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Here's your complete guide to using MIDI synthesizers, samplers, soundcards, sequencers, computers and more! The MIDI Companion shows how a MIDI system or systems for a wide range of situations can be assembled quickly, easily and trouble-free. Describes... (read more)

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