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Music and Sound: Books

Resources on Music Business, Popular Music and Sound related programmes

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UoG Library book collections

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Using our eBooks

eBook collections at UoG

UoG eBooks are available in Library Discovery. They can also be accessed via our eBook provider platforms.

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Benefits of eBooks

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New Books across music business and popular music

Hot Stuff
Music, Technology, Innovation book cover
Creative Confidence and Music Production front cover
Turn the beat around: The secret history of music
Music and Protest
'The Songwriter's Handbook' book front cover
The Music Business for Music Creators book cover
'Music and Social Inclusion' book cover
'All You Need to Know about the Music Business' book cover
'Creative Concert Production and Entrepreneurship' book jacket
The Practice of Popular Music book jacket
The Musician's AI Handbook book cover
'Music Marketing for the DIY Musician' book cover
Ecologies of Creative Music Practice front cover of book
Analyzing recorded music front cover of book
Sex and gender in pop/rock music front cover of book
Streaming Sounds front cover of book
Liveness : performance in a mediatized culture front cover
Marketing Recorded Music front cover
Black Power Music front cover
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Popular music, technology, and the changing media ecosystem front cover
'On the records' book cover
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How to Make It in the New Music Business front cover
'Interpreting Music, Engaging Culture : an introduction to music criticism' front cover
Popular Music and the Politics of Hope front cover
Performing Electronic Music Live front cover
Researching Live Music front cover
Level up : Live Performance and Creative Process in Grime Music front cover
Chasing Sound book jacket
Practical musicology front cover
Educating Musicians for Sustainability front cover
Scholarly Research in Music front cover
Musical intimacy front cover of book
Tarzan Economics Eight Principles for Pivoting Through Disruption book cover
Listening, belonging and memory front cover of book
Streaming Music, Streaming Capital front cover of book
front cover of 'How to Write Melodies' book
'In the Groove' book cover
Take This Hammer: Work, Song, Crisis book cover
'One-Track Mind: capitalism, technology, and the art of the pop song' book cover
'Ubiquitous Music Ecologies' book cover
'Corporate life in the digital music industry : remaking the major record label from the inside out' book cover
'Artist management in the music industries : a sui generis form of management' book cover
Labels : Making Independent Music front cover
Taylor Swift : The Star, the Songs, the Fans front cover

New Books across sound and music production

Innovation in Music: Adjusting Perspectives book jacket
'The Routledge handbook of sound design' book cover
'The Music of Sounds and the Music of Things' book cover
Interactive Technologies and Music Making front cover
Adventures in Modern Recording book cover
'The Pocket Mentor for Game Audio' book cover
Designing Audio Circuits and Systems book cover
front cover of book The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies
Mixing Audio: : concepts, practices, and tools front cover
Innovation in music : technology and creativity book cover
The Art of Sound book cover
The Mixing Engineer's Handbook front cover
'Game audio fundamentals' book cover
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Chasing Sound book jacket
Coproduction : collaboration in music production front cover
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Music Production front cover
'Pixel Soundtracks' book cover
Virtual Music Sound, Music, and Image in the Digital Era front cover
Immersive Sound Production front cover
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art front cover
The Evolution of Electronic Dance Music front cover
The Theory and Practice of Writing Music for Games book cover
Routledge Companion Sound Art book cover
Musical sound effects book cover
Game Audio Programming 4 book cover

New books list

Have a look at the full list of new resources for your subject.

Inter-Library Loan service for Books

Book not in the library?

Use the Inter-Library Loan (ILL) service to obtain print books and chapters from print or electronic books not held by the university. The service is primarily for final year undergrad students, postgrads, researchers and academics. Staff and students have an initial allocation of free requests. More information is available in the Guide to Inter-Library Loans

Main subject areas in the Library

Topic Shelf number
Audio engineering
(microphones, mixing, etc)
621.3893
Copyright and media law 346.048
Music (general heading) 780
Music industry (inc. marketing) 780.68
Music production 781 - 782
Music theory 781.11
Electronic music 786.74
Popular music culture 303.483
Popular music (Theory) 781.64
Rock music 781.66
Sound and music (broad heading) 780
Subcultures 306.1  

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