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Title: How to Become a Live Audio Mixer

Subtitle: 7 Secrets of a Hollywood Live Audio Mixer Who Does Live Events Every Month!

Author: HowExpert Press, Mike Napoli

Narrator: JD Kelly

Format: Unabridged

Length: 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-03-17

Publisher: HowExpert

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

This book goes through an incredible amount of info for beginning in the show business industry as a live mixer. Throughout the guide, the listener can expect to learn learn the basics of acoustics and the way that sound behaves scientifically, how equipment reacts to different environments, how to setup a stage properly, and succeed in a very competitive industry. The book is written based on real experience to get anyone looking to step foot in this industry ahead with knowledge that takes time and dedication to even begin to learn usually. After listening to this book, the listener will be able to feel confident and know what to expect as an entry level worker in show business and become a live audio mixer.

Michael Napoli (HowExpert writer) has been live mixing as an audio engineer for over two years in the Hollywood scene. He has worked musicals, rock concerts, plays, and more and it all began in high school through a dedicated technical theatre class where he picked up on audio and live mixing right away. Over the years as his ears developed and his interest grew he began producing his own music and bands as well. Today he is live mixing gigs every month, enjoying every minute of it, and he is also producing music.

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Title: The History of Rock & Roll

Subtitle: Volume 1: 1920-1963

Author: Ed Ward

Narrator: David Colacci

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-06-16

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 24 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

Ed Ward covers the first half of the history of rock & roll in this sweeping and definitive narrative - from the 1920s, when the music of rambling medicine shows mingled with the songs of vaudeville and minstrel acts to create the very early sounds of country and rhythm and blues, to the rise of the first independent record labels post-World War II, and concluding in December 1963, just as an immense change in the airwaves took hold and the Beatles prepared for their first American tour.

In this first volume of a two-part series, Ward shares his endless depth of knowledge and through engrossing storytelling hops seamlessly from Memphis to Chicago, Detroit, England, New York, and everywhere in between. He covers the trajectories of the big name acts like Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, and Ray Charles, while also filling in gaps of knowledge and celebrating forgotten heroes such as the Burnette brothers, the "5" Royales, and Marion Keisker, Sam Phillips's assistant, who played an integral part in launching Elvis's career.

Critic Reviews:

"A dean of rock journalism delivers the first volume of a magnum opus on a subject that never ceases to fascinate.... A spry study that should inspire listening with newly informed ears to old tunes." (Kirkus)

Members Reviews:

Author's blindspots mar this book

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

I enjoy Ed Ward's NPR pieces about little known rock performers very much, but significant omissions and biases keep this from being an authoritative history of rock. This book purports to cover 1920-1963, but the author skips rather quickly from 1920 to about 1950 with only brief mentions of important artists like Louis Jordan and Bob Wills. He then gives short shrift to Bill Haley whose important role in the evolution of early rock, predates Little Richard, Chuck Berry and Elvis. Ed Ward is evenhanded in his approach to other performers here, but he is not only outright derisive of Haley ("his ridiculous spit curl") but worse, he perpetuates the uniquely American myth that Haley was an insignificant anomaly.

Comprehensive

It is wonderful to read such a well researched history of rock. I am eagerly looking forward to the next installment.

Tedious, monotone tome

This is much more like an encyclopedia (in chronological order) than a story. It is an endless recitation of names of people, songs, record companies, etc. There is no story interest or emotion whatsoever. How can rock & roll be told in a 14 hour monotone??

If you are looking for a reference guide this may be it, but I recommend it in print form where it would be easier to look up references. Otherwise, the reading of this book is great for insomnia as I have used it with great effect.

Better than several college texts on the topic

This book does an excellent job at navigating the odd twists and turns that happened in American music leading to the birth of rock and roll. I'm anxiously awaiting the next volume!

Putting all the pieces in order

Great overview that brings together the strands that cause the creation of rock and roll. Great narration. Highly recommended

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Title: How to Make It in the New Music Business

Subtitle: Practical Tips on Building a Loyal Following and Making a Living as a Musician

Author: Ari Herstand

Narrator: Derek Sivers, Ari Herstand

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-06-16

Publisher: HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 173 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

In the last decade, no industry has been through as much upheaval and turmoil as the music industry. If you're looking for quick fame and instant success, you're in the wrong field. It's now a democratic DIY business, and any guide to success in these new waters must be told by someone who's already survived them. Giving today's aspiring musicians the practical tools they need to build and maintain a lifelong career, How to Make It in the New Music Business becomes not only a brilliantly compiled tutorial on how to accomplish specific tasks - routing a tour, negotiating contracts, getting paid for Spotify and Pandora plays, or even licensing music to commercials, film, and television - but also a manifesto that encourages musicians to pave their own paths. Iin clear, easy-to-follow chapters, Ari Herstand's necessary and definitive handbook promises to redefine what it means to make it in the brave new world of professional music.

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Title: Play It Loud

Subtitle: An Epic History of the Style, Sound, and Revolution of the Electric Guitar

Author: Brad Tolinski, Alan di Perna, Carlos Santana - foreword

Narrator: Rob Shapiro

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-25-16

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 93 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

By a pair of veteran music writers, an unprecedented history of the electric guitar, its explosive impact on music and culture, and the people who brought it to life.

For generations the electric guitar has been an international symbol of freedom, danger, rebellion, and hedonism. In Play It Loud, Brad Tolinski and Alan di Perna bring the history of this iconic instrument to roaring life. It's a story of inventors and iconoclasts, of scam artists, prodigies, and mythologizers as varied and original as the instruments they spawned.

Play It Loud uses 12 landmark guitars - each of them artistic milestones in their own right - to illustrate the conflict and passion the instruments have inspired. It introduces Leo Fender, a man who couldn't play a note but whose innovations helped transform the guitar into the explosive sound machine it is today. Some of the most significant social movements of the 20th century are indebted to the guitar: It was an essential element in the fight for racial equality in the entertainment industry; a mirror to the rise of the teenager as social force; a linchpin of punk's sound and ethos. And today the guitar has come full circle, with contemporary titans such as Jack White of The White Stripes, Annie Clark (aka St. Vincent), and Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys bringing some of the earliest electric guitar forms back to the limelight.

Featuring interviews with Les Paul, Keith Richards, Carlos Santana, Eddie Van Halen, Steve Vai, and dozens more players and creators, Play It Loud is the story of how a band of innovators transformed an idea into a revolution.

Critic Reviews:

"It's all here: everything knowable now becomes known about the plugged-in ax that changed the world. A comprehensive history of the electric guitar in cultural context is something long wanted, awaited, and needed. At long last, it has arrived." (Billy Gibbons, ZZ Top guitarist/vocalist and Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame inductee)

"The authors... bring freshness to chestnuts through technical nuggets aplenty.... The electric guitar changed the world, and Tolinski and di Perna impressively reveal its epic story." (Kirkus Reviews)

Members Reviews:

Great history lesson for electric guitar enthusia!

Where does Play It Loud rank among all the audiobooks youve listened to so far?

It's definitely one of the best music oriented non-fiction books available.

Who was your favorite character and why?

All the people, guitars and events in the book were very interesting.

Which character as performed by Rob Shapiro was your favorite?

All equally good.

Any additional comments?

It would have been great if it also included audio clips of the guitars and music referenced in the book. For example, it would help to hear the difference between a single coil vs humbucking pickups, a Gibson Les Paul vs a Fender Strat, sample riffs, techniques, etc.

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Title: Angelic Music

Subtitle: The Story of Benjamin Franklin's Glass Armonica

Author: Corey Mead

Narrator: Paul Boehmer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-18-16

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

Benjamin Franklin is renowned for his landmark inventions, including bifocals, the Franklin stove, and the lightning rod. Yet his own favorite invention is unknown to the general public. The glass armonica, the first musical instrument invented by an American, was constructed of stacked glass bowls and played by rubbing one's fingers on the rims. It was so popular in the late 18th and early 19th centuries that Mozart, Beethoven, Handel, and Strauss composed for it.

In Angelic Music, Corey Mead describes how Franklin's instrument fell out of popular favor, partly due to claims that its haunting sounds could drive musicians out of their minds. Some players fell ill, complaining of nervousness, muscle spasms, and cramps. Audiences were susceptible; a child died during a performance in Germany. Some thought its ethereal tones summoned spirits or had magical powers. It was banned in some places. Yet in recent years, the armonica has enjoyed a revival. Composers are writing pieces for it in genres ranging from chamber music and opera to electronic and pop music. Now Mead brings this instrument back to the public eye, telling the compelling, fascinating story of its origins.

Critic Reviews:

"Charming and fascinating... Mead's lively storytelling opens a window into a (as it were) mesmerizing chapter of music history." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

The Rise and Fall of the Glass Armonica

Angelic Music by Corey Mean is the story of Ben Franklin's Glass Armonica, the invention that gave him the "greatest personal satisfaction."

When we lived in Philadelphia in the mid-1970s to late 1980s we saw the Glass Armonica at the Franklin Institute. And we had heard a man perform on musical glasses in several venues around the time of the Bicentenniel. So I had heard the ethereal, angelic music of the musical glasses.

I had not realized that the Glass Armonica was all the rage in the 18th c and early 19th c. Chamber music including the instrument was written by Mozart, Beethoven, and Handel. Vituosos toured Europe playing the music that made women swoon.

It gained a tarnished reputation in the early 19th c when people believed the music could drive one mad and cause illness, or summon the dead with magical powers. Mesmer used it in his seances.

As music changed from small ensambles to large symphonic orchestras in halls the Armonica fell out of favor, relegated to being a museum curiosoity. But in the last twenty years it has found a revival, electronically enchanced, and used in pop music, movies, opera, and chamber music.

I was fascinated by this book. Corey covers the rise and fall of the musical glasses, the development of glassmaking, early musical glasses, Franklin's musical background and development of the Armonica, the hey-day of the Glass Armonica, and Mesmer's career and his use of the instrument, including his comissioning an opera from Mozart, the decline and revival of the instrument.

When German glassblower Gerhard Finkenbeiner saw a Glass Armonica in a musem in 1960 it was a curiosity. He rediscovered how to create the glass and instrument and the instrument found a revival.

Today a few people are experts, including Dennis James whose collaboration with Linda Ronstadt on six CDs revived an interest in the instrument.

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Title: Hamilton: The Revolution

Author: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeremy McCarter

Narrator: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Mariska Hargitay

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-06-16

Publisher: Hachette Audio UK

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

From Tony Award-winning composer-lyricist-star Lin-Manuel Miranda comes a backstage pass to his groundbreaking hit musical, Hamilton.

Lin-Manuel Miranda's groundbreaking musical, Hamilton, is as revolutionary as its subject: the poor kid from the Caribbean who fought the British, defended the Constitution, and helped to found the United States.

Fusing hip-hop, pop, R&B and the best traditions of theater, this once-in-a-generation show broadens the sound of Broadway, reveals the storytelling power of rap and claims the origins of the United States for a diverse new generation.

Hamilton: The Revolution gives listeners an unprecedented view of both revolutions, from the only two writers able to provide it. Miranda, along with Jeremy McCarter, a cultural critic and theater artist who was involved in the project from its earliest stages - 'since before this was even a show', according to Miranda - traces its development from an improbable performance at the White House to its landmark opening night on Broadway six years later.

In addition Miranda has written more than 200 funny, revealing footnotes for his award-winning libretto, all of which are included here. Their account features exclusive looks into notebooks and emails; interviews with Questlove, Stephen Sondheim, leading political commentators, and more than 50 people involved with the production; and multiple appearances by President Obama himself.

The audiobook does more than tell the surprising story of how a Broadway musical became an international phenomenon: it demonstrates that America has always been renewed by the brash upstarts and brilliant outsiders, the men and women who don't throw away their shots.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio.

Members Reviews:

I will never be Satisfied...with this

This isn't a bad examination of the songs in Hamilton and there are lots of interesting insights. In particular, as someone who doesn't know much about hip hop, I was interested to learn about all the call outs and references to hip styles and artists that appear throughout the show.

The audiobook is accompanied by a PDF annotated Hamilton script, featuring all the songs and Lin Manuel Miranda's footnotes about them. In the second part of the audiobook, Lin narrates these footnotes, though I think most people would need to have the PDF open in front of them to see what he is talking about in each footnote, as no context is given. The PDF looks nice and features photographs of the show in performance.

I definitely don't regret buying it and would recommend it to other Hamilton fans.

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Title: Heart-Based Singing

Subtitle: Vocal Technique

Author: Agatha Carubia

Narrator: Agatha Carubia

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-19-16

Publisher: StellaRose Publishing

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 11 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

A unique treasure of vocal wisdom, Heart-Based Singing will be the sole guide to understanding, refining and developing your singing voice. Agatha Carubia lovingly directs you to the core of your singing technique with the simplicity and passion inspired by 30 years of teaching success. Using a hybrid of the Eastern chakra energy system and the classical Bel Canto vocal technique, Heart-Based Singing serves as a trouble-shooting template for your voice, with practical exercises, tools and solutions for immediate improvement.

Members Reviews:

Explained everything I couldn't understand about singing

Love the theory. Love the applications. Easy to use and makes a lot of sense

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Title: Original Gangstas

Subtitle: The Untold Story of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the Birth of West Coast Rap

Author: Ben Westhoff

Narrator: JD Jackson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-15-16

Publisher: Hachette Books

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 104 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

A monumental, revealing narrative history about the legendary group of artists at the forefront of West Coast hip-hop: Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, and Tupac Shakur.

Amid rising gang violence, the crack epidemic, and police brutality, a group of unlikely voices cut through the chaos of late 1980s Los Angeles: N.W.A. Led by a drug dealer, a glammed-up producer, and a high school kid, N.W.A. gave voice to disenfranchised African Americans across the country. And they quickly redefined pop culture across the world.

Their names remain as popular as ever: Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, and Ice Cube. Dre soon joined forces with Suge Knight to create the combustible Death Row Records, which in turn transformed Snoop Dogg and Tupac Shakur into superstars.

Ben Westhoff explores how this group of artists shifted the balance of hip-hop from New York to Los Angeles. He shows how N.W.A.'s shocking success led to rivalries between members and record labels and eventually a war between East Coast and West Coast factions. In the process hip-hop burst into mainstream America at a time of immense social change and became the most dominant musical movement of the last 30 years. At gangsta rap's peak, two of its biggest names - Tupac and Biggie Smalls - were murdered, leaving the surviving artists to forge peace before the genre annihilated itself.

Featuring extensive investigative reporting, interviews with the principal players, and dozens of never-before-told stories, Original Gangstas is a groundbreaking addition to the history of popular music.

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Critic Reviews:

"Westhoff manages to knit together all the group'soutsized personalities, feuds, fist fights and drama into a stunning and entertaining read.... [His] detailed recounting of the long history of Death Row is required reading even for those who may think they know the story." (New York Daily News)

"Insightful... Westhoff's history is especially relevant amid the ongoing Black Lives Matter movement." (Booklist)

"This is the hip-hop book of the season, and it gives readers a thorough and engaging history of the West coast rap scene." (Bookish)

Members Reviews:

Excellent, rap needs more of these!

Would you listen to Original Gangstas again? Why?

Yes I would, there was so much information to absorb, but it was never overbearing.

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Title: Music Business

Author: IntroBooks

Narrator: Cyrus Nilo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-26-16

Publisher: IntroBooks

Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

The music business is part of the entertainment industry, a segment worth billions of dollars worldwide, surpassing the automotive sector in sales, behind only the defense industry. Artists and small producers do not have specific knowledge and skills to undertake their own business or to manage their career. This study seeks to address the main issues in the areas of the music industry, entrepreneurship, finance, and marketing.

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Title: Altamont

Subtitle: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day

Author: Joel Selvin

Narrator: John Pruden

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-16-16

Publisher: HarperAudio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 177 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

In this breathtaking cultural history filled with exclusive, never-before-revealed details, celebrated rock journalist Joel Selvin tells the definitive story of the Rolling Stones' infamous Altamont concert in San Francisco, the disastrous historic event that marked the end of the idealistic 1960s.

In the annals of rock history, the Altamont Speedway Free Festival on December 6, 1969, has long been seen as the distorted twin of Woodstock - the day that shattered the '60s' promise of peace and love when a concertgoer was killed by a member of the Hells Angels, the notorious biker club acting as security. While most people know of the events from the film Gimme Shelter, the whole story has remained buried in varied accounts, rumor, and myth - until now.

Altamont explores rock's darkest day, a fiasco that began well before the climactic death of Meredith Hunter and continued beyond that infamous December night. Joel Selvin probes every aspect of the show - from the Stones' hastily planned tour preceding the concert to the bad acid that swept through the audience to other deaths that also occurred that evening - to capture the full scope of the tragedy and its aftermath. He also provides an in-depth look at the Grateful Dead's role in the events leading to Altamont, examining the band's behind-the-scenes presence in both arranging the show and hiring the Hells Angels as security.

The product of 20 years of exhaustive research and dozens of interviews with many key players, including medical staff, Hells Angels members, the stage crew, and the musicians who were there, Altamont is the ultimate account of the final event in rock's formative and most turbulent decade.

Members Reviews:

Fascinating History

Would you listen to Altamont again? Why?

Brilliantly researched, perfectly crafted. If you're over 55 and were reasonably tapped into popular culture in 1969, this reads like a whodunnit starring a cast of people that you at least feel like you know. Just an amazing tapestry of events that led to the death of Meredith Hunter and, ostensibly, the end of an extremely short period of naive innocence for the nascent Boomer Generation. Much like Gimme Shelter, the documentary of The Stones '69 American tour, this is written cinema verite. You will feel like you are there. But unlike the movie you will actually see how, over a period of months, a series tragic decisions were made by mostly guileless people with, again, mostly, pure, or at least reasonable motives. These decisions led to what has been called the worst day in rock-n-roll history. How was the acid at Altamont different than it's "Summer of Love" predecessor? What role did The Grateful Dead play in setting up the concert? How did The Stones Hyde Park experience with English Hell's Angels lull them into accepting the California Angels as concert security? What role did Rock Scully play? Who the hell is Rock Scully? Why was the concert moved, 36 hours before the start, to the hellhole that is the Altamont Speedway? Was Meredith Hunter just and innocent kid in the wrong place at the wrong time? Or was he something more nefarious? Was Mick Jagger to blame? The author says yes to this last question, although over 9 hours he does not make a compelling case to back his contention.