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Title: Music Marketing

Subtitle: Using Twitter to Get 1000's of Real Targetted Fans and Sell More Music

Author: Sean Levi

Narrator: Eddie Leonard Jr.

Format: Unabridged

Length: 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-01-16

Publisher: JPL Publishing

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 18 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

You're about to discover how to use social media to gain a huge online following. You'll learn how to efficiently manage your Twitter account and create engaging content to share with your fans. You'll also learn how to do some automation so you can save time when putting your content out there.

Here is a preview of what you'll learn:

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Title: Song Machine

Subtitle: Inside the Hit Factory

Author: John Seabrook

Narrator: Dion Graham

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-05-15

Publisher: HighBridge, a Division of Recorded Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 552 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

Over the last two decades, a new type of song has emerged. Today's hits bristle with "hooks", musical burrs designed to snag your ear every seven seconds. Painstakingly crafted to tweak the brain's delight in melody, rhythm, and repetition, these songs are industrial-strength products made for malls, casinos, the gym, and the Super Bowl halftime show. The tracks are so catchy and so potent that you can't not listen to them.

Traveling from New York to Los Angeles, Stockholm to Korea, John Seabrook visits specialized teams composing songs in digital labs with novel techniques, and he traces the growth of these contagious hits from their origins in early '90s Sweden to their ubiquity on today's charts. Featuring the stories of artists like Katy Perry, Britney Spears, and Rihanna as well as expert songsmiths like Max Martin, Ester Dean, and Dr. Luke, The Song Machine will change the way you listen to music.

Critic Reviews:

"This is a fascinating tale about an amazing phenomenon: how hits get made. John Seabrook combines a love of music and an appreciation for personalities to take us on a starry journey from Stockholm and London to New York and Orlando showing how creativity gets discovered, polished, and packaged. His book is a triumph of great writing and reporting, and the lessons reverberate far beyond the world of music." (Walter Isaacson, author of

The Innovators and

Steve Jobs)

"Beneath the surface of today's pop music lies an industrial process as rigorous and bizarre as the one perfected by McDonald's. Seabrook shows what it takes to make a hit in a book that's beautifully written, revelatory, funny, and full of almost unbelievable details." (Eric Schlosser, author of

Fast Food Nation and

Command and Control)

"Anyone who wants to understand how the clash of cultures has shaped what we listen to should read this important book. John Seabrook has a marvelous ear for language - and perfect pitch when it comes to music journalism." (Bob Spitz, author of

The Beatles: The Biography)

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Title: Elements of Jazz: From Cakewalks to Fusion

Author: The Great Courses

Narrator: Professor Bill Messenger

Format: Original Recording

Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-08-13

Publisher: The Great Courses

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 301 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

Jazz is a uniquely American art form, one of America's great contributions to not only musical culture, but world culture, with each generation of musicians applying new levels of creativity that take the music in unexpected directions that defy definition, category, and stagnation.

Now you can learn the basics and history of this intoxicating genre in an eight-lecture series that is as free-flowing and original as the art form itself. You'll follow the evolution of jazz from its beginnings in the music and dancing of the antebellum plantations to its morphing into many shapes as its greatest innovators gave us ragtime, the blues, the swing music of the big band era, boogie-woogie, and big band blues.

You'll follow the rise of modern jazz in all of its many forms, including bebop, cool, modal, free, and fusion jazz. And you'll learn how the course of jazz was changed by key technological innovations, such as the invention of the microphone, which allowed smaller-voiced singers like Bing Crosby or Mel Torme to share a limelight once reserved for the bigger voices of stars like Bessie Smith or Al Jolson.

Beginning the story on those antebellum plantations, Professor Messenger reveals how the "cakewalks" of slave culture gave birth to a dance craze at the end of the 19th century that was ignorant of its own humble roots. And he explores the irony of the minstrel shows, which derived from Southern beliefs of black cultural inferiority yet eventually spawned a musical industry that African-American musicians would dominate for decades to come.

As a bonus, the lectures are also very entertaining, with Professor Messenger frequently turning to his piano to illustrate his musical points, often with the help of guest artists.

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