Award Winner: 2018 Best Book Awards Performing Arts
From ads to ambience and beyond, music is ubiquitous in modern life, and every time a tune plays, somebody's getting paid. If you're reading this, odds are you already know that you're no dummy, and you want your slice of the pie. Good on you! Here's the catch: the music industry isn't fair (which, again, you already know.) Whatever a song's merits, it won't catch fire on its own, and that's where this book comes into play.
In Survival Guide for Music Composers: Tools of the Trade to Get Paid! , Brian Tarquin, a multi-Emmy-winning composer-guitarist with a discography longer than his luscious locks and a penchant for studio sorcery, teaches you to cash in on your talent by getting your foot in the door (and keep it there!) and a check in your hand. If you want to cut it in this world, you'll require quite a few intangibles, among them your own creative vision, a bit of personal flair, a hearty helping of grit, and, to put it point blank, a little good luck. Regardless, if you're up to snuff, Survival Guide for Music Composers provides all the practical advice and concrete guidance you need to succeed.
Before we tell you what this survival guide is, let's clear up what it's not. This isn't a book about the art and science of composition (we assume you've got that covered), abstract or academic theories about music or business or the music business, or a marketplace directory. If it were, we wouldn't be buying, and neither would you. Tarquin, a fiendishly talented guitarist, in-demand composer, recording engineer, and producer who has worked with nearly every big name in the business, made his way by trial and error. This book is the end product of his years in the industry. It's the book he wishes he had when he was starting out.
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Performing Arts
Actor for Life is the text that actors and acting teachers search for. It has an upbeat tone, easy to read style, and tongue-in-cheek images, so the profoundly powerful content is surprisingly easy to take in and use. The exercises draw on the latest methods from the science of learning. They enable the reader to break negative patterns of thought and behavior, and literally reprogram their brains. The result is lasting positive change.
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Performing Arts
Dance Across the USA is a collection of dancers from all over America, helping to showcase what is beautiful and inspiring in this country. Covering 22,264 miles, 163 Dancers, 90 consecutive days, 56 locations, & 50 states, Master Photographer Jonathan Givens created this project to show what really makes up America. Diversity that exists both in the physical landscape, and in the dancers who make America their home.
The photographs in this book are real. The dancers actually did what you see, in the places shown. The skies are real, the landscape is real, even the dirty feet, are real. There is no digital compositing here, nor are there any trampolines or wires. Using only Canon cameras and flashes, Jonathan quite literally went to the ends of the nation, to work with dancers ranging from 5 to 61. Professionals and amateurs, students and teachers, boys and girls, cat lovers and dog lovers, everyone and anyone was welcome. Over 3000 dancers applied to be a part of the project, and those selected for the book reflect not only the range of what makes up dance in America, but they also showed a love for this country and its wonders.
Dance Across the USA is a fun, beautiful, and inspirational look at America, both its places and its people. It is our differences and our diversity that combine to make us all Americans. From the sandy Florida beaches to the rugged Washington coast, the glaciers of Alaska to Death Valley in California, diversity is the hallmark of what literally makes up America. That diversity is reflected in our citizens, and our dancers. Join Jonathan and the Mighty Buford as they make this historic journey, that no one has ever been crazy enough to try before.
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Performing Arts
Bringing together interdisciplinary leaders in methodology and arts-based research (ABR), this comprehensive handbook explores the synergies between artistic and research practices and addresses issues in designing, implementing, evaluating, and publishing ABR studies. Coverage includes the full range of ABR genres, including those based in literature (such as narrative and poetic inquiry); performance (music, dance, playbuilding); visual arts (drawing and painting, collage, installation art, comics); and audiovisual and multimethod approaches. Each genre is described in detail and brought to life with robust research examples. Team approaches, ethics, and public scholarship are discussed, as are innovative ways that ABR is used within creative arts therapies, psychology, education, sociology, health sciences, business, and other disciplines. The companion website includes selected figures from the book in full color, additional online-only figures, and links to online videos of performance pieces.
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Performing Arts
Author Bruce Ridge served as chair of the International Conference of Symphony and Opera Musicians from 2006 to 2016. In this time of economic upheaval and social change, when orchestras were besieged with lockouts and bankruptcies, many questioned the value of the symphony orchestra to society. Into this environment, Ridge brought an eloquent, positive message, embracing connection through social media, highlighting the value of musicians to their community, and promoting the healing orchestral music can provide. The essays and speeches Ridge shares recount ICSOM's expanding role as a true advocacy organization under his leadership. He addresses topics both global and personal, ranging from arts education's role in a vibrant civil society to the challenges of maintaining mental health in a stressful profession. This collection of writings serves as a remarkable journal of advocacy on behalf of one of the world's greatest cultural treasures: our symphony orchestras.
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Performing Arts
Patrick Swayze, the beloved dancer, actor, singer, songwriter, producer, choreographer, family man, athlete, horseman, and more, had a diversified career in the arts world for over thirty-five years. He often played hero roles in his work and spoke about traditional values such as honor, integrity, morality, passion, faith, and love. He was always searching for meaning in his life and trying to give to others some joy or sense of purpose or meaning. During his hard-fought and inspirational battle against pancreatic cancer, he became a real-life hero to millions of people.Patrick Swayze was taken too soon, but his remarkable spirit and enormous legacy will always shine bright.
Discover how his focus on dreams for himself and others sustained him and guided him to live a zest-filled and hopeful life even while dealing with great adversity. Honor and celebrate Patrick while reading about his career, his connection with his family, and his involvement in advocacy for dance, cancer advances, and conservation. Learn what his professional colleagues and fans have to say about him. Finally, get a look at what I think Patrick would say to us now.
Enjoy approximately thirty color photos throughout the book which include Patrick Swayze from his various movie and television roles, rarely seen photos from appearances, and more.
Read Patrick's own words which have been compiled from multiple media sources throughout the years.
