Product Description: Through interviews with industry experts in the US and the UK, The Guerilla Guide gives priceless tips on every aspect of gigging - from rehearsals to foreign tours. It takes you through the process of recording, from home-made demos to releasing your own finished product and radio promotion...read more

Product Description: "EPMOW lives music. Put another way, it does for popular music what Grove has done for classical"David Brackett ‘Excellent, readable and thoroughly useful...While some previous single-volume and multivolume works have addressed the development and current state of popular music, none has done so with this work's depth of scholarship and global reach...read more

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Product Description: A companion to the successful "Guerilla Film Maker's Handbook", this book deals with every aspect of professional music making in today's popular music industry on both sides of the Atlantic. In creating music and developing a career, almost everyone starts out "independently", that is without the support of a large company...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: From advertising to zydeco, this volume provides a guide to scholarly literature on the popular music of the world. It covers non-biographical aspects of the field, including genres, the industry, social and cultural contexts, musical practices, geographical locations and theory and method...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Describes and assesses the styles, composers, and musicians of contemporary music

Product Description: A guide to the popular music of the 20th-century. The text covers jazz, rock, country, soul and blues and has over 6000 entries, many of which are cross-referenced. The authors were co-editors of the 1976 Encyclopedia of Rock.

Profiles nearly 2,000 recording artists, who have contributed to popular music's evolution

Product Description: Buddy Holly occupies an enigmatic position in pop and rock music history, partly because of his premature death at the age of 22 in a plane crash in February 1959. Designated in Don MacLean's hit "American Pie" as 'the day the music died', this enabled him to be included in the trope 'the death of rock 'n roll', alongside the less drastic musical demises of Elvis Presley (joined army), Chuck Berry (imprisoned), Jerry Lee Lewis (disgraced) and Little Richard (joined priesthood)...read more