April 2012
Here are some music resources which have been added to stock. Please feel free to add a comment or review and if you have any further suggestions for new stock please do let the LRC know.
Creative license: the law and culture of digital sampling, by Kembrew McLeod and Peter DiCola – How did the Depression-era folk-song collector Alan Lomax end up with a songwriting credit on Jay-Z’s song “Takeover”? Why doesn’t Clyde Stubblefield, the primary drummer on James Brown recordings from the late 1960s, get paid for other musicians’ frequent use of the beats he performed on those songs? The music industry’s approach to digital sampling holds the answers. Exploring the complexities and contradictions in how samples are licensed, the authors interviewed more than 100 musicians, managers, lawyers, industry professionals, journalists, and scholars. Based on those interviews, this book puts digital sampling into historical, cultural, and legal context. Observing that the same dynamics that create problems for remixers now reverberate throughout all culture industries, the authors conclude by examining ideas for reform.
Ripped: t-shirts from the underground, edited by Cesar Padilla – a visual history of counterculture music t-shirts, spanning the defining era of indie music, and the first book to document the shirts of the post-punk period, after the submission of 1960’s rock ‘n’ roll to mass popularity and before the onset of ironic consumerism. Carefully selected from the archive of vintage fashion collector Cesar Padilla, the 200 t-shirts in this book are classic examples of rare and extremely limited shirts created by and for the very bands who embodied the true essence of the DIY and indie movements.
Idolized: music, media, and identity in American Idol, by Katherine Meizel – the hit television program American Idol provides a stage where the politics of national, regional, ethnic, and religious identity are performed for millions of viewers. Diversity is carefully highlighted and coached into a viable commodity by judges, argues the author, with contestants packaged into familiar portraits of American identities. Consumer choice, as expressed by audience voting, also shapes the course of the show – negotiating ideas of democracy and opportunity closely associated with the American Dream. Through interviews with audience members and participants and careful analyses of television broadcasts, commercial recordings, and print and online media, the author demonstrates that commercial music and the music industry are not simply forces to be criticized or resisted, but critical sites for redefining American culture.
Futurehit.DNA: how the digital revolution is changing Top 10 songs, by Jay Frank – the digital revolution has been televised. It is now widely accepted that digital distribution will become the preferred method of consuming music for the majority of people worldwide. Millions of music fans have already jumped in head-first with iPods, internet radio, file trading, online music videos and streaming from personalized community pages and websites. While the makeup of this digital landscape has been well documented, there has never been any detailed analysis to what this all means for the music creation process. Listening habits are changing drastically. The methods in which music gatekeepers can understand what music will become hits are rapidly growing deeper than ever before. The gatekeepers themselves are also changing.
Music success in nine weeks: a step-by-step guide on how to use social media and online tactics to supercharge your PR, build your fan base and earn more money, by Ariel Hyatt – this book includes: a week by week roadmap with written exercises to create focus and put your plan into action; how to create an effective elevator pitch that you can deliver to sell yourself to anyone at any time; how to use Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites effectively; a marketing technique that will walk you through how to make more money from your existing fan base.
Music and politics, by John Street – this book examines music’s political power. It shows how music has been at the heart of accounts of political order, how musicians from Bono to Blue have claimed to speak for peoples and political causes. It looks at the emergence of music as an object of public policy, in the classroom or in the copyright courts, as the focus of national pride or employment opportunities. The book brings together ideas about music’s political significance (from Aristotle, via Rousseau, to Adorno and beyond) to tell of the extraordinary potency of music across time and space. At its heart lies the argument that music and politics are inseparably linked, and that each animates the other.
Music 3.0: a survival guide for making music in the internet age, by Bobby Owsinski – this is a completely updated and revised edition of the original best seller, featuring the latest music business and social media concepts as well as brand-new interviews with a variety of the industry’s top movers and shakers. The book not only takes a look at the music industry’s evolution and how we got to Music 3.0, but also provides the information that today’s musician or music business executive needs to take advantage of the new music industry paradigm. What has changed? Who are the new players? Why are traditional record labels, television, and radio no longer factors in an artist’s success? How do you market and distribute your music in this new world? How do you make money in this new music world? All these questions (and more) are answered in this book.
Musician’s roadmap to Facebook and Twitter: your complete guide to getting liked, followed, and heard, by Ariel Hyatt and Carla Lynne Hall – this book includes:
- Facebook vs. Facebook Fan Pages : key differences you need to know
- how to separate your personal life and friends from your artist life and fans on Facebook
- proven techniques that work for growing your fans and engagement on Facebook
- a full overview of how to make Twitter work to engage fans (it’s NOT just what you are eating for lunch!)
- best applications for streaming and sharing music on Facebook and Twitter
- newsletters: the forgotten asset that all artists should use to drive sales and diversity content on your social media sites
- everything you need to know about blogging: why artists who blog have more engagement with their fans
Ripped: how the wired generation revolutionized music, by Greg Kot – a decade ago, the vast majority of mainstream music was funnelled through a handful of media conglomerates. Now, more people are listening to more music from a greater variety of sources than at any time in history. And big corporations are no longer the sole gatekeepers and distributors, their monopoly busted by a revolution: an uprising led by bands and fans networking on the internet. This book tells the story of how the laptop generation created a new grassroots music industry, with the fans and bands rather than the corporations in charge. In this new world, bands aren’t just musicmakers but self-contained multimedia businesses; and fans aren’t just consumers but distributors and even collaborators.
