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The year is 1969, and the Bayleen Island Folk Fest is abuzz with one name: Jesse Reid. Jesse Reid's intricate guitar riffs and supple baritone are poised to tip from fame to legend with this one headlining performance. That is, until his motorcycle crashes on the way to the show. Jane Quinn is a Bayleen Island local whose music flows as naturally as her long blond hair. When she and her bandmates are asked to play in Jesse Reid's place at the festival,...
3) Shine
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What would you give for a chance to live your dreams? For seventeen-year-old Korean American Rachel Kim, the answer is almost everything. Six years ago, she was recruited by DB Entertainment—one of Seoul’s largest K-pop labels, known for churning out some of the world’s most popular stars. The rules are simple: Train 24/7. Be perfect. Don’t date. Easy right? As the dark scandals of an industry bent on controlling and commodifying beautiful...
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Violet Parry is living the quintessential life of luxury in the Hollywood Hills with David, her rock-and-roll manager husband, and her darling toddler, Dot. She has the perfect life--except that she's deeply unhappy. David expects the world of Violet but gives little of himself in return. When she meets Teddy, a roguish small-time bass player, Violet comes alive, and soon she's risking everything for the chance to find herself again. Also in the picture...
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Zoë Frixos is a successful music magazine editor, intent on restoring her paper to its former glory...despite those pesky closure rumors flitting about. Zoë decides to land the coup of the century, securing an interview with her notoriously elusive rock idol. But when faced with the arrogant publicist Nick Jones, a man who seems determined to ruin her career, Zoë wonders how she's ever going to save the paper she loves. That's when she hears...
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Women of power volume 9
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Spotlights artists whose work spans musical genres and industry roles, including composing and songwriting, performing and conducting, audio engineering, producing, and rock photography. 15 women reveal how they turned their passions into platforms and how they use their power to uplift others.
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In sex.lies.murder.fame., Lolita Files delivers a sizzling satire set against the affluence and sensuality of the literary and music worlds that explores the outrageous lengths to which three devout fame-chasers will go to seek their fortune.
Fame is a b*#%$. And when boy meets b*#%$, nothing can keep the two of them apart. Penn Hamilton is young, brilliant, beautiful, and ready to take on the world and claim his rightful place in
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More musicians are recording, distributing, marketing, and selling their own music now than ever before in history. The Indie Band Survival Guide is the critically-acclaimed, do-it-yourself modern classic that has been telling them how for years.
In this up-to-the-moment edition, musicians and web gurus, Randy Chertkow and Jason Feehan, cover everything musicians need to know. Drawing on their in-the-trenches experiences, they tell musicians how...
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Drawing on interviews with leading artists and band members, from Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band to crossover superstar Gloria Estenfan, as well as journeymen musicians, music executives, and managers, economist Alan Krueger takes readers backstage to show how the music industry works. Incorporating tabulations of the latest date on concert revenues, ticket prices, royalties, streaming, tour dates, and merchandise sales, Rockonomics reveals who...
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From the effects of fame on family and vice versa to motherhood and drugs, sex, and romance, Lisa Robinson has discussed every taboo topic with nearly every significant living female artist to pass through the pages of Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair. Here, her interviews with and observations of fabulous female pop and rock stars, from Tina Turner and Alanis Morrissette to Rihanna, show how these powerhouse women, all with vastly different life experiences,...
13) Working in music
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Takes readers on a backstage tour of working in music, from singers to producers. Spreads highlight the skills and education readers will need, feature career spotlights, and show readers and where the future of the field is headed.
14) Be cool
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The adventures of a small-time mobster in his new profession as a Hollywood film producer. He is Chili Palmer, a former loan shark, and the novel is the story of him making a film while avoiding getting killed. By the author of Get Shorty.
16) Drama 99 FM
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Life in the fast lane isn't all it's cracked up to be. . .
Ever since she started working for a top executive in the music industry, once-shy Naomi has gone from drab to fab. Now that she's had a taste of the good life, she'll stop at nothing to get more--even if it means watching her career unravel and losing the ones she loves.
Personal assistant Sereeta is all about getting her NBA player boss whatever he wants. She's not afraid to break the...
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There's a reason hit songs offer such guilty pleasure--they're designed that way. Over the last two decades a new type of hit song has emerged, one that is almost inescapably catchy. Pop songs have always had a "hook," but today's songs bristle with them: a hook every seven seconds is the rule.
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Capstone Press
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[2017]
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Fascinating facts, fun pictures, and first-person accounts highlight informative text about some of the most interesting jobs that take place behind the scenes in the music industry. Readers will get a glimpse at what it takes to make it as a songwriter, producer, manager, and more and find out what goes on behind the glamour.
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Brooke was drawn to the soulful, enigmatic Julian Alter the very first time she heard him perform at a dark East Village dive bar. Now five years married, Brooke balances two jobs as a nutritionist at NYU Hospital and as a consultant to an Upper East Side girl's school in order to help support her husband's dream of making it in the music world. When Julian is siigned by Sony and asked to perform on the Tonight Show, he is catapulted to stardom, literally...
20) Musician
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Learn about the many different paths to becoming a professional musician and find out if it's the right career for you.
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