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  • Music in the Marketplace

    A social economics approach

    by Samuel Cameron ...
    Much recent economic work on the music industry has been focused on the impact of technology on demand, with predictions being made of digital copyright infringement leading to the demise of the industry. In fact, there have always been profound cyclical swings in music media sales owing to the fact that music always has been, and continues to be, a discretionary purchase.This entertaining and ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • An Economic Approach to the Plagiarism of Music

    by Samuel Cameron ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book is an economic analysis of plagiarism in music, focusing on social efficiency and questions of inequity in the revenue of authors/artists. The organisation into central chapters on the traditional literary aspect of composition and the technocratic problem of ‘sampling’ will help clarify disputes about social efficiency and equity. It will also be extremely helpful as an expository ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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    Confessions of a Media Manipulator

    by Ryan Holiday ...
    The cult classic that predicted the rise of fake news—revised and updated for the post-Trump, post-Gawker age.Hailed as "astonishing and disturbing" by the Financial Times and "essential reading" by TechCrunch at its original publication, former American Apparel marketing director Ryan Holiday’s first book sounded a prescient alarm about the dangers of fake news. It's all the more relevant today ... Read more

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  • The Vanity Fair Diaries

    Power, Wealth, Celebrity, and Dreams: My Years at the Magazine That Defined a Decade

    by Tina Brown ...
    Named one of the best books of 2017 by Time, People, The Guardian, Paste Magazine, and Vogue"A zingy account of the glittery, shallow 1980s . . . Brown is a waspish, reliably slick writer—her witty skewerings are first-class.” —The Times (London)Tina Brown kept delicious daily diaries throughout her eight spectacular years as editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair. Today they provide an ... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • It's Not News, It's Fark

    How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap As News

    by Drew Curtis ...
    A hilarious exposé on the media gone awry, from the creator of the wildly popular Fark.comHave you ever noticed certain patterns in the news you see and read each day? Perhaps it’s the blatant fear-mongering in the absence of facts on your local six o’clock news (“Tsunami could hit the Atlantic any day!” Everybody panic!), or the seasonal articles that appear year after year (“Roads will be ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • In America

    Tales from Trump Country

    by Caitríona Perry ...
    As RTÉ's Washington correspondent, Caitríona Perry has earned a reputation as a reliable source of truth as the world tries to make sense of the maelstrom of shocking headlines emanating from Donald Trump's America. In her first book, she goes beyond the news reports and delves into the American heartland where she witnessed his rise at first hand, while others were blindsided by his victory. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Losing Our Voice

    Radio-Canada Under Siege

    by Alain Saulnier ...
    Translated by Pauline Couture ...
    The inside story of decades of government interference in the work of our national public broadcaster, CBC/Radio-Canada.Is there a quiet campaign to hamstring and silence the CBC? In Losing Our Voice Alain Saulnier, long-time head of news and public affairs at Radio-Canada, documents the decades of political interference that have jeopardized the very existence of one of Canada’s most important ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Music Commodities, Markets, and Values

    Music as Merchandise

    by Jayson Beaster-Jones ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ethnomusicology
    This bookexamines music stores as sites of cultural production in contemporary India. Analyzing social practices of selling music in a variety of retail contexts, it focuses upon the economic and social values that are produced and circulated by music retailers in the marketplace. Based upon research conducted over a volatile ten-year period of the Indian music industry, Beaster-Jones discusses ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Audition for Your Career, Not the Job: Mastering the On-camera Audition

    by Tim Phillips ...
    "Those who read this book will find that there is much to learn from Tim Phillips. Read it. Digest it. You'll be very well informed and find yourself a better student of the subject at the end."—Robert Duvall, Academy Award-winning actor, Tender Mercies, Emmy Award-winning actor, Broken Trail, writer, director, and producer"An instructive, no nonsense, passionate cry to the actor: Bring your ... Read more

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  • Tango

    Sex and Rhythm of the City

    by Mike Gonzalez, Marianella Yanes ...
    Series series Reverb
    Born on the unlit streets of Buenos Aires, tango was inspired by the music of European immigrants who crossed the ocean to Argentina, lured by the promise of a better life. In the capital’s marginal districts, it was embraced and shaped by young men who told tales of prostitutes, petty thieves and disappointed lovers through its music and movements. Chronicling the stories told through tango’s ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Experimentalisms in Practice

    Music Perspectives from Latin America

    Edited by Ana R. Alonso-Minutti, Eduardo Herrera, Alejandro L. Madrid ...
    Experimentalisms in Practice explores the multiple sites in which experimentalism emerges and becomes meaningful beyond Eurocentric interpretative frameworks. Challenging the notion of experimentalism as defined in conventional narratives, contributors take a broad approach to a wide variety of Latin@ and Latin American music traditions conceived or perceived as experimental. The conversation ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • They Bear Acquaintance

    African American Spirituals and the Camp Meetings

    by Nancy L. Graham ...
    Series Book 4 - Music and Spirituality
    Identifying the roots of African American spirituals and other religious folk music has intrigued academics, hymnologists and song leaders since this genre came to the public eye in 1867. The conversation on origins has waned and waxed for over eighty years, sometimes polemical, sometimes compromising. They Bear Acquaintance looks at this discussion through the output of various well-regarded ... Read more

    $76.09 USD