1999 Songwriter's Market

1999 Songwriter's Market
Author: Tara Horton
Publisher: Writer's Digest Books
Total Pages: 536
Release: 1998-09-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780898798531

"Consider it the foundation of your songwriting career".--"Songwriter's Monthly".

1999 Writer's Market

1999 Writer's Market
Author: Mark Garvey
Publisher: Writer's Digest Books
Total Pages: 1128
Release: 1998-09
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780898798555

Does everything but stamp your self-addressed envelopes.--St. Paul PioneerPress. IBM-compatible CD-ROM.

2000 Songwriter's Market

2000 Songwriter's Market
Author: Tara Horton
Publisher: Writer's Digest Books
Total Pages: 534
Release: 1999-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780898799149

"Consider it the foundation of your songwriting career."--"Songwriter's Monthly."

Songwriter's Market 40th Edition

Songwriter's Market 40th Edition
Author: Cris Freese
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2016-11-02
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 144034793X

Songwriter's Market is the go-to source for songwriters and performing artists who seek career advice and up-to-date information for placing their songs with music publishers, discovering record companies or producers, securing representation with a manager, and much more. With insights from a variety of industry experts and both career and up-and-coming songwriters, this edition features the firsthand and insider knowledge songwriters need to launch their career. You gain access to: • Interviews with veterans like Phil Cody, Chip Taylor, and Marc Jordan and rising stars like Simon Wilcox, Francesco Yates, and the Grammy-nominated Erik Blu2th Griggs. • Articles on breaking into Nashville, using Twitter to market yourself as a songwriter, and crowdfunding. • Hundreds of songwriting-placement opportunities. • Listings for songwriting organizations, conferences, workshops, retreats, colonies, contests, venues, and grant sources. + Includes exclusive access to the video "Pat Pattison Masterclass: Rhythm and Form" "Songwriter's Market is the indispensable tool you need to build your songwriting career. From the secrets of hit songwriting craft to an unequaled collection of pitching resources for your final recordings, this book delivers it all." --Robin Frederick, writer and producer of more than 500 songs for television, records, and audio products, and author of top-selling songwriting books

Songwriter's Market 40th Edition

Songwriter's Market 40th Edition
Author: Cris Freese
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2016-11-02
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1440347794

Songwriter's Market is the go-to source for songwriters and performing artists who seek career advice and up-to-date information for placing their songs with music publishers, discovering record companies or producers, securing representation with a manager, and much more. With insights from a variety of industry experts and both career and up-and-coming songwriters, this edition features the firsthand and insider knowledge songwriters need to launch their career. You gain access to: • Interviews with veterans like Phil Cody, Chip Taylor, and Marc Jordan and rising stars like Simon Wilcox, Francesco Yates, and the Grammy-nominated Erik Blu2th Griggs. • Articles on breaking into Nashville, using Twitter to market yourself as a songwriter, and crowdfunding. • Hundreds of songwriting-placement opportunities. • Listings for songwriting organizations, conferences, workshops, retreats, colonies, contests, venues, and grant sources. + Includes exclusive access to the video "Pat Pattison Masterclass: Rhythm and Form" "Songwriter's Market is the indispensable tool you need to build your songwriting career. From the secrets of hit songwriting craft to an unequaled collection of pitching resources for your final recordings, this book delivers it all." --Robin Frederick, writer and producer of more than 500 songs for television, records, and audio products, and author of top-selling songwriting books

Six Steps to Songwriting Success, Revised Edition

Six Steps to Songwriting Success, Revised Edition
Author: Jason Blume
Publisher: Billboard Books
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2008-09-02
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0823084779

What’s the secret to writing a hit song? It’s as simple as 1-2-3-4-5-6! Innovative, practical, and inspiring, Six Steps to Songwriting Success presents a surefire step-by-step approach to mastering the elements consistently found in hit songs. Author Jason Blume, a songwriter with the rare distinction of having had songs on the Country, Pop, and R&B charts simultaneously, has packed this book with such key aids as the three-step lyric writing technique used by the pros; lyric, melody, and demo checklists; and tools for self-evaluation–plus many other exercises that work. Blume’s warm, humorous style features motivational anecdotes and entertaining stories of how hit songs came to be written and recorded. Get Six Steps to Songwriting Success, and get on the charts!

Spreadin' Rhythm Around

Spreadin' Rhythm Around
Author: David A Jasen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2013-10-31
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1135509727

Spreadin' Rhythm Around: Black Popular Songwriters, 1880-1930 is a classic work on a little-studied subject in American music history: the contribution of African-American songwriters to the world of popular song. Hailed by Publishers Weekly as "thoroughly researched and entertainingly written," this work documents the careers of songwriters like James A. Bland ("Carry Me Back to Ole Virginny"), Bert Williams ("Nobody"), W. C. Handy ("St. Louis Blues"), Noble Sissle, Eubie Blake ("I'm Just Wild About Harry"), and many more. Richly illustrated with rare photographs from sheet music, newspapers, and other unique sources, the book documents an entire era of performance when black singers, dancers, and actors were active on the New York stage. In sheer depth of research, new information, and full coverage, Spreadin' Rhythm Around offers a comprehensive picture of the contributions of black musicians to American popular song. For anyone interested in the history of jazz, pop song, or Broadway, this book will be a revelation.

Songwriter's Market

Songwriter's Market
Author: Julie Whaley
Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
Total Pages: 464
Release: 1986
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780898792478

Each of the 2,000 listings of song buyers have complete information about that listing. This updated guide is the guide for songwriters. Illustrated.

2011 Songwriter's Market

2011 Songwriter's Market
Author: Editors Of Writers Digest Books
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2010-10-11
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1599632578

THE MOST TRUSTED GUIDE TO SONGWRITING SUCCESS For 34 years, Songwriter's Market has provided the most complete and up-to-date information songwriters need to place their songs with music publishers, record companies, record producers, managers & booking agents, music firms, and more.In the 2011 Songwriter's Market, you'll find: • Hundreds of songwriting placement opportunities, including how each market is different from the next and how to find success. • Interviews with songwriting legends, such as Mark Mothersbaugh (Devo) and Even Stevens, who's written for everyone from Kenny Rogers to Martina McBride. • Power-packed articles on taking charge of your career, including how to navigate social media sites and find alternative routes to songwriting success. • Plus, the basic nuts and bolts of the songwriting business are explained, including how to submit songs, the proper way to handle Copyright, how to identify scams, negotiating contracts, what royalties are (and how to get them), and more. • Listings for songwriting organizations, conferences, workshops, retreats, colonies, and contests. Take charge of your songwriting career today with the 2011 Songwriter's Market.