Producing Music (Perspectives on Music Production)

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Illustrated
2019
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During the last two decades, the field of music production has attracted considerable interest from the academic community, more recently becoming established as an important and flourishing research discipline in its own right. In addition, the academic study of music production within educational institutions has become the norm alongside training in the technical aspects of the practice. This book presents cutting edge research across topics that both strengthen and broaden the range of the discipline as it currently stands.

Synopsis

During the last two decades, the field of music production has attracted considerable interest from the academic community, more recently becoming established as an important and flourishing research discipline in its own right. In addition, the academic study of music production within educational institutions has become the norm alongside training in the technical aspects of the practice. This book presents cutting edge research across topics that both strengthen and broaden the range of the discipline as it currently stands.

$58.44

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 356
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 08 Feb 2019
ISBN 10: 0415789222
ISBN 13: 9780415789226

Author Bio

Russ Hepworth-Sawyer is a sound engineer and producer with over two decades' experience of all things audio and is a member of the Association of Professional Recording Services and a former board member and continuing member of the Music Producer's Guild where he helped form their Mastering Group. Through MOTTOsound (www.mottosound.co.uk), Russ works freelance in the industry as a mastering engineer, writer and consultant. Russ currently lectures part time for York St John University and has taught extensively in Higher Education at institutions including Leeds College of Music, London College of Music and Rose Bruford College. He contributes from time to time in magazines such as MusicTech, Pro Sound News Europe, Sound On Sound plus has written many titles for Focal Press. Russ is also the co-founder of the Innovation In Music conference series. Dr. Jay Hodgson is an associate professor of Popular Music Studies at Western University, where he mostly teaches songwriting and the project paradigm of record production. In the last few years, he's mixed, mastered, composed & produced records nominated for national Juno awards, which topped Beatport's global techno and house charts a number of times, and which have been featured on films recognized by the likes of Rolling Stone Magazine, Vanity Fair, and Spin magazine, and which screened at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. He was awarded a Governor General's Academic Medal in 2006, based primarily on the excellence of his dissertation, according to the accompanying citation, and the dissertation was later nominated for a CAGS-UMI award, which recognizes dissertations at the national level which make an unusually significant contribution to their fields. Jay's second book, Understanding Records (Bloomsbury: 2010), was recently acquired by the reading room at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He has also written books for Oxford University Press and Wilfrid Laurier Press, and is currently at work on a book on mastering with his co-author, Russ Hepworth-Sawyer, for Focal Press. Mark Marrington is an academic specializing in a number of areas including musicology of record production, popular music studies, electronic music history/practice and the creative uses of music technology. His previous doctoral research concerned 20th Century British art music composition (focusing on the music of Denis ApIvor) and the contemporary classical guitar repertoire. He is also a composer of electronic music and a classical guitarist who has published pedagogical material with Mel Bay and Boosey and Hawkes. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in Music Production at York St John University, UK, where his teaching is primarily focused on the musicology of record production, critical theory and dissertation supervision.