Library Acquisition of Music

Library Acquisition of Music

Author: Robert Michael Fling

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9780810851245

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Provides advice for libraries on acquiring printed and recorded music; including information on preordering, the ordering process, secondhand and out of print materials, and more.


Careers in Music Librarianship III

Careers in Music Librarianship III

Author: Susannah Cleveland

Publisher: A-R Editions, Inc.

Published: 2014-01-01

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 9780895797872

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Music librarianship¿a profession that brings joy and satisfaction to many¿is subject to constant change that requires, in turn, continual adaptation from its practitioners so that they become comfortable with new technologies and formats, changing standards, and fresh approaches. Relevant and solid training and education are crucial to success in this field, but they alone are insufficient to guarantee placement or promotion. Recent economic shifts have created additional instability, leaving graduates from programs in librarianship sometimes unemployed and with little feedback about the quality of their experience and education while their employed counterparts likewise have little knowledge of their skills¿ relevance to the current job market. Knowledge of training, education, and current employer expectations for music librarians can help ease such concerns and pave the way for a successful career or career change. As with the two previous editions of Careers in Music Librarianship, this volume provides career resources and guidance for current and future librarians, as well as insights for mentors and educators working with these populations. With this volume, the contributors provide a selection of readings that can help people in and considering this profession to make realistic, informed, and strategic decisions about how to succeed in it. As the profession changes, so must the professionals within it, and everyone involved with music librarianship will benefit from the guidance offered in this exciting, new book.


Music Librarianship at the Turn of the Century

Music Librarianship at the Turn of the Century

Author: Richard Griscom

Publisher: Music Library Association Technical Reports

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780810838666

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Thirteen essays explore the recent past, present, and future of music librarianship. Topics examined include preservation, cataloging, user education, music publishing, the antiquarian music market, archives, and education for music librarianship. Griscom is music librarian at the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign. Maple is head of Arts and Humanities Libraries at Pennsylvania State University. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR.


From Cows to Concrete

From Cows to Concrete

Author: Rachel Surls

Publisher: Angel City Press

Published: 2016-05-14

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781626400313

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What? Los Angeles was the original wine country of California, leading the state's wine production for more than a century? Los Angeles County was the agricultural center of North America until the 1950s? And where today's freeways soar, cows calmly chewed their cud? How could that be? Los Angeles, the capital of asphalt and Klieg lights, was once a paradise filled with grapevines and bovines, so abundant with Nature's gifts that no one could imagine a more pastoral place? Los Angeles County was the center of an agricultural empire. Today, it is the nation's most populous urban metropolis. What happened? Where did the green go? As Americans connect with gardens, farmers markets, and urban farms, most are unaware that each of these activities have deep roots in Los Angeles, and that the healthy food they savor literally had its roots in L.A. This book is for all who treasure the country's agrarian history.


Better Allies

Better Allies

Author: Karen Catlin

Publisher: Better Allies Press

Published: 2021-01-11

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 9781732723351

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Do you want to build a workplace culture that has a certain buzz? Where employees thrive and engagement survey scores soar? Where people from different backgrounds, races, genders, sexual orientations/identities, ages, and abilities are hired and set up for success?To create this kind of vibrant and supportive workplace, learn to practice active allyship. With the Better Allies® approach, it's something anyone can do.Since originally publishing Better Allies in 2019, Karen Catlin has amassed dozens of new scenarios and insights through her talks, workshops, and community interactions. In this fully revised second edition, you'll learn to spot situations where you can create a more inclusive culture, along with straightforward steps to take and changes to make. Catlin, a highly-sought after expert on allyship, will show you how to:? Attract and hire a diverse workforce? Amplify and advocate for others? Give effective and equitable performance feedback? Use more inclusive language? Run inclusive conferences and eventsRead this book to learn the Better Allies® approach, level-up your ally skills, and create a culture where everyone can do their best work and thrive.


Extreme Exoticism

Extreme Exoticism

Author: W. Anthony Sheppard

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2019-09-20

Total Pages: 641

ISBN-13: 0190072725

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To what extent can music be employed to shape one culture's understanding of another? In the American imagination, Japan has represented the "most alien" nation for over 150 years. This perceived difference has inspired fantasies--of both desire and repulsion--through which Japanese culture has profoundly impacted the arts and industry of the U.S. While the influence of Japan on American and European painting, architecture, design, theater, and literature has been celebrated in numerous books and exhibitions, the role of music has been virtually ignored until now. W. Anthony Sheppard's Extreme Exoticism offers a detailed documentation and wide-ranging investigation of music's role in shaping American perceptions of the Japanese, the influence of Japanese music on American composers, and the place of Japanese Americans in American musical life. Presenting numerous American encounters with and representations of Japanese music and Japan, this book reveals how music functions in exotic representation across a variety of genres and media, and how Japanese music has at various times served as a sign of modernist experimentation, a sounding board for defining American music, and a tool for reshaping conceptions of race and gender. From the Tin Pan Alley songs of the Russo-Japanese war period to Weezer's Pinkerton album, music has continued to inscribe Japan as the land of extreme exoticism.


Notations

Notations

Author: John Cage

Publisher:

Published: 1969

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13:

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Manuscripts by 269 composers, with accompanying texts determined by I-Ching chance operations.


Gear Acquisition Syndrome

Gear Acquisition Syndrome

Author: Jan-Peter Herbst

Publisher:

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781862181847

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Gear Acquisition Syndrome, also known as GAS, is commonly understood as the musicians unrelenting urge to buy and own instruments and equipment as an anticipated catalyst of creative energy and bringer of happiness. For many musicians, it involves the unavoidable compulsion to spend money one does not have on gear perhaps not even needed. The urge is directed by the belief that acquiring another instrument will make one a better player. This book pioneers research into the complex phenomenon named GAS from a variety of disciplines, including popular music studies and music technology, cultural and leisure studies, consumption research, sociology, psychology and psychiatry. The newly created theoretical framework and empirical studies of online communities and offline music stores allow the study to consider musical, social and personal motives, which influence the way musicians think about and deal with equipment. As is shown, GAS encompasses a variety of practices and psychological processes. In an often life-long endeavour, upgrading the rig is accompanied by musical learning processes in popular music.


The Sound I Saw

The Sound I Saw

Author: Roy Decarava

Publisher: Phaidon Press

Published: 2001-09-13

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9780714841236

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This is the long-awaited publication of a moving masterwork by one of the greatest photographers of our time. Conceived, designed, written and made by hand as a prototype by master photographer Roy DeCarava (b.1919) in the early 1960s, yet unpublished for nearly half a century, The Sound I Saw has largely existed as a legend among the cognoscenti of the photography world. Presented as a stream of 196 soulful images interspersed with DeCarava's own evocative poetry, the book is, in its form and effect, the printed equivalent of jazz. "This is a book about people, about jazz, and about things. The work between its covers tries to present images for the head and for the heart and, like its subject matter, is particular, subjective, and individual," writes the author. DeCarava is a life-long New Yorker who from his immediate world creates images that transcend the specific to depict universal themes of joy, anticipation, pain and survival. Largely unpublished, he was first recognized for his images of daily life in Harlem (the subject of The Sweet Flypaper of Life, his 1955 collaboration with Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes) and portraits of musicians like Duke Ellington and Billie Holiday. It is these two themes, Harlem and jazz, interwoven and inseparable, that are the ostensible subject of the book. However, the seemingly casual yet deeply felt compositions and the deep, rich tones of DeCarava's photographs stir emotions that resonate far beyond one neighbourhood and one era.


Copyright for Librarians

Copyright for Librarians

Author: Harvard University. Berkman Center for Internet & Society

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 9789081836012

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"Re-designed as a textbook, "Copyright for Librarians: the essential handbook" can be used as a stand-alone resource or as an adjunct to the online curriculum. With a new index and a handy Glossary, it is essential reading for librarians and for anyone learning about or teaching copyright law in the information field."--Publisher's website.