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[2019]
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English
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"Drawing on interviews with leading artists and band members 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 data on concert revenues, ticket prices, royalties, streaming, tour dates, and merchandise sales, Rockonomics reveals who makes money and how, and it chronicles the radical transformation of the economics...
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There has never been a greater need for practical DIY marketing advice from a musician who has been there and succeeded than now - at a time when new technologies make it more possible than ever for musicians to attract attention independently and leverage their own careers, and record industry professionals look exclusively for developed artists who are already successful. Written by a professional musician for other musicians, Music Marketing for...
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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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"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,...
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[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013?]
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English
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Dejiko is a perfectly normal princess from the planet Di Gi Charat, who arrives in Tokyo with dreams of becoming an idol. Unfortunately, girls with cat ears and a tail, and who can shoot ray beams out of their cat eyes, aren't exactly what most prospective employers are looking for. But there's one place where Dejiko does fit in perfectly: Akihabara, where a kindly game store owner offers a job to Dejiko, her sidekick Puchiko, and their balloon-like...
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"It's 1980, and Lillian Waters is hitting the road for the very last time. Jaded from her years in the music business, perpetually hungover, and diagnosed with career-ending vocal problems, Lillian cobbles together a nationwide farewell tour featuring some old hands from her early days playing honky-tonk bars in Washington State and Nashville, plus a few new ones. She yearns to feel the rush of making live music one more time and bask in the glow...
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Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
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English
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This documentary explores Tupac, the soldier, whose career was deeply formed by his Black Panther heritage. The artist and entertainer who is, perhaps, the most prolific writer in the hip-hop music industry. Killed before he was able to realize his true and full potential.
11) Vinyl: Season 1
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A New York music executive in the 1970s hustles to make a career out of the city's diverse music scene.
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Soft Skull Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Jacket Weather is told in fragments of narrative, snatches of conversation, and bits of reflection and weather, and set in present-day New York, about June and Mike, who knew each other in the downtown music scene in the '80s and who meet again after twenty years and fall in love. But they're in their fifties when they do, so the book is also about mortality, because all of a sudden it seems like there's barely enough time for them. Besides June...
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Cartoon Network
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
Description
Season 3 of Metalocalypse picks up directly after the violent attack on Mordhaus leaving the band in a precarious position without management. How will the biggest entertainment act in the universe deal with the BRUTALITY of a troubled music industry, declining economy, and their own unbridled narcissism? How will the band deal with getting too big and losing touch with their roots?
15) Hustle & flow
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Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2006
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English
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DJay, a very smalltime streetwise Memphis hustler and pimp, lives a dead-end life at the fringes of society. Though DJay has always had a way with words, that gift has long been misused--employed to keep his 'girls' producing. A chance encounter with Key, a sound engineer, spurs DJay to find a voice and realize his long-buried dreams. Chasing his musical dream transforms DJay, but opening the door to success demands one last hustle--if he's ever going...
16) Not fade away
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
From David Chase, creator of The Sopranos, comes a story about discovering your passions, following your dreams, and finding yourself. It's the 1960s and rock n' roll is changing the world. Inspired by a bold new era and his success in a local band, Douglas drops out of college to pursue his musical dreams, only to discover the harsh realities of the music industry. Douglas is forced to choose between listening to his father or listening to his heart....
17) Danny says
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The life and times of the influential, brilliantly funny rock icon Danny Fields. Since 1966, Danny Fields has played a pivotal role in music and culture of the late twentieth century. This follows Fields from Harvard Law dropout, to the Warhol Silver Factory, to Director of Publicity at Elektra Records, to punk pioneer and beyond.
18) Crash: Season 1
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
From the producers of the Academy Award-winning Best Motion Picture of the same title, this program takes an in-depth, up-close and deeply personal look at some of the lives slamming together in the melting pot of Los Angeles. Led by film icon Dennis Hopper, it's here where all ends of the social spectrum meet that collisions happen, shattering lives and creating new futures.
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Wicked + the divine volume 3
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"After the detonation of FANDEMONIUM the gods-as-pop-stars of THE WICKED + THE DIVINE try living in the long dark shadow. Team WicDiv are joined by a stellar cast of guest artists to put the spotlight on each of the gods. The multiple Eisner Award nominated series continues in the only way it knows how: darker, weirder, faster. Don't worry. It's going to be okay"--Publisher's website.
20) The high note
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A superstar singer and her overworked personal assistant are presented with a choice that could alter the course of their respective careers.
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