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Booking, Promoting and Marketing Your Music: A Complete Guide for Bands and Solo Artists (Mix Pro Audio Series)
Nyree Belleville
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Join the indie revolution! This book will be your constant reference for recording, booking, managing, promoting and selling your music. Perfect for all genres of music, and for people already working as musicians, just starting out, or representing a band. Covers: booking great gigs, marketing your music and selling thousands of albums, managing bands, professional band promotion, and much more!
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Excellent.......2006-05-20
If you are serious about making a fortune by selling your own music this is the guide that will help you go through all the hardships when starting your own company. Big dreams require big sacrifices and this book tells all about the compromises someone has to make to make it in the industry. As much as i would like to call it the best, another title caught my attention, and it is Ty Cohen's "How To Make A Fortune In The Music Industry By Doing It Yourself: Your Personal Step-By-Step Guide To Having A Successful Career In The Music Business. ... To Sell Music, Book Shows And Get Noticed!" , guide and handbook for the emerging artist.
Everything and More..........2003-07-01
This book has all the information I was looking for and much, much more. Very well written by somebody who obviously knows the biz. Lots and lots of valuable resources and tips. I'll be referring back to it for years to come.
Written by one who knows.......2003-01-08
I got this for my husband whose a musician. It is very practical, goes over things that Music Business books don't. It's written for the musician and by one who is successful.
An EXCELLENT resource for serious musicians.......2002-04-12
I find this book to be an excellent resource for serious musicians. Those of us who want to make a living doing music in a professional way will benefit from the detailed advice in this book. Everything from alternate venues, to exact rates to expect/charge, to creating press kits, recording/selling cds successfully--it's all here. I use this book as a basis for everything I am doing now to create a successful solo music career. Nyree Belleville is a great Bodhissatva to all those interested in creating a successful music career based on solid business and people skills. HUGE encouragement for musicians in all walks of life!!
Booking, Promoting and Marketing Your Music,.......2000-07-02
I love this useful book. It makes sense and order out of the bewildering array of tasks and questions musicians are confronted with on the road to success. The helpful details that come from direct experience make this book real. The book has authority and freshness. The information is generous. The style is uplifting. The book layout works for easy referencing. I wouldn't be without it.
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Governing Fortune: Casino Gambling in America
Ernest P. Goss , and
Edward A. Morse
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Governing Fortune: Casino Gambling in America provides the background needed for citizens and policymakers to make informed decisions about gambling in America.
Edward A. Morse and Ernest P. Goss draw on their legal and economic experience to offer important insights to those wrestling with the policy dilemmas presented by legalized gambling. Rather than a polemic against gambling or an apology for it, Governing Fortune is an acute analysis of the industry, designed to help policymakers and interested citizens make informed choices.
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- Evenhanded treatment of pro and con arguments for casino gambling.
- Lucid and understandable explanation of the legal framework for regulating gambling, including both state and federal sources.
- Comprehensive information on contemporary developments in gambling, including Internet gambling and problem gambling behaviors.
Governing Fortune is an essential guide, offering sound and reliable information on the complex of factors involved in any calculation of the social costs of legalized gambling.
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Fantasy City: Pleasure and Profit in the Postmodern Metropolis
John Hannigan
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Following a wave of de-industrialization and cutbacks in public spending, American downtowns are reinventing themselves in the image of Disneyland and Las Vegas. Fantasy City looks at the changing face of the city and what it means for its citizens and for the future of urban development.
America's central cities more and more begin to resemble theme parks. While this appears to have brought a new energy and hope to the urban landscape, it has yet to deliver an economic miracle to the surrounding residents and merchants. Local communities struggle to maintain their distinctiveness even as they embrace the commercial fantasies offered by global entertainment companies. John A. Hannigan shows how the growth of the fantasy city reflects an ongoing search for risk-free mass entertainment by middle-class consumers.
By discussing examples from a wide variety of venues, including casinos, malls, heritage developments and theme parks, Hannigan traces the rise of urban entertainment at the beginning of this century, its decline after World War II to its surprising renaissance in the 1980s and 1990s. He offers provocative insights into urban development from structuralist, cultural and constructionist perspectives. By drawing on extensive material from business, cultural studies and urban planning, he shows that the growth of the fantasy city signals not only the arrival of a new urban space, but also the eventual destruction of the "inner city".
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Economic factors highlighted.......2007-09-04
From the variety of other authors who cite this work, I expected something quite different, more of a cultural analysis than the author offers. I can't argue with his description of the complex financial maneuvers public and private entities go through to create UEDs and his research seems solid. I'm just more interested in the cultural impact of manufactured environments and pseudo-historical commercial landmarks (festival marketplaces) and this book doesn't go as far as I had hoped in discussing this element. Also, I thought that he would be primarily discussing urban development but his primary focus is on entertainment districts whether they are located in urban or suburban environments. He also varies a bit in his critique of UEDs, sometimes highlighting how they put local retail outlets out of business and create few jobs but later in the book he seems to express a lot of admiration for these captains of industry and commercial development and what they are able to accomplish especially regarding Las Vegas.
Alarmingly accurate.......2003-06-20
Hannigan aptly notes that many an urban renewal or even "new urbanist" design (say, South Street Seaport) resembles a theme park more than a real city. Especially helpful is the list of characteristics shared by entertainment complexes and "fantasy city" redevelopments. The discussion focuses on economic aspects of development (or why the new city won't be gritty) but also makes some mention of cultural impacts (notably making "the urban" a safe experience for the middle class shopper and off-limits to everyone else). If Hannigan's analysis is correct, we could all be living in Westfield malls soon.
it is not enough.......2001-04-20
i expeceted somethin different from this work. by this i do not mean that it is not worth it. it is too centred on the business aspect and its economic modus operandi (words as synergy private-publec strategies, etc. are common terms used)of the new UEDs. however i wanted to read something about the cultural and social impact of the new UED and thematized environments, and on this regard it says very little and nothing new or exciting as a matter of fact. this lack of critical perspective on the cultural and social implications of the UEDs is the fact when the author mentions that museums could get better technologies in order to make their exhibitions more attractive by establishing joint-ventures with multinatinal corporatives. the author mentions Epcot as the perfect example of such associations without considering that the realities shown at epcot are no more than the corporative visions on different realities. so, if you want a text business oriented on the Fantasy city, and nothing more, this is the book for you.
Quite a good book.......2000-10-15
Let me start off by saying that I finished this book and couldn't put it down. It's a comprehensive and fascinating look at city development specifically focusing on the "entertainment" aspect of city life. It helped me understand the movement towards the all-in-one suburban entertainment centres.
wait for the movie and then tell everyone not to see it!.......2000-03-15
This book was very boring. I seldomly do not finish reading a book, but this was a book I did not finish. It consists mostly of facts and of little theory.
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Sport in the City
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This book covers the significance of sport in economic, cultural and political terms. It discusses the theory and practice of sports related policy for urban development.
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Gambling Politics: State Government and the Business of Betting
Patrick A. Pierce , and
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The Politics of Leisure Policy (Public Policy and Politics)
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The Politics of Leisure Policy provides a systematic account of the impact of social, economic and cultural change on the demand for leisure and of the response of politicians, professionals, and service providers. This substantially revised second edition has been updated throughout to reflect the changed realities of the post-Thatcher era, notably the impact of globalization and the search by New Labour for a "responsible market" approach to leisure policy and provision.
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Olympic Dreams: The Impact of Mega-Events on Local Politics (Explorations in Public Policy)
Matthew J. Burbank ,
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Recommended reading for students of political science.......2001-06-08
In Olympic Dreams: The Impact Of Megaevents On Local Politics, Matthew Burbank, Gregory Andranovich, and Charles Heying effectively collaborate to survey the controversial questions arising when municipalities compete for, and agree to support the staging of a manor international event. Using Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Salt Lake City as case examples of American cities which hosted the Olympics, the authors present a comprehensive study of what precedes and ultimately follows this international sporting event, its impact on the municipality's political and financial economy. Very highly recommended reading for students of political science and international studies, Olympic Dreams is a particularly timely contribution in light of recent international meetings sponsored by the World Trade Organization, The World Bank, Organization of American States, and various United Nations organizations holding their conferences and meetings in American cities.
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Government and the Transformation of the Gaming Industry
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During the 1990s the gambling industry transformed its image by referring to itself as the `gaming industry'. While critics of the industry scoffed at this transformation as merely a meaningless name change, it has had profound effects on the business and public policies that face the newly transformed gaming industry.
The book is divided into three parts. The first part focuses on the historical and cultural forces that have shaped this new gaming industry. Emphasis is placed on the two types of games (agon - games of skill, and alea - games of chance). It is shown that the types of games a society embraces have a significant impact on whether gambling is permitted to enter the mainstream of the entertainment industry.
The second part of the book analyzes how each segment (pari-mutuel betting, lotteries and casinos) competes in the new industry. The political and social implications of gaming are the focus of the final part, which concludes with a series of recommendations that will enable the industry, public policy officials and anti-gambling activists to construct policies that mitigate some of the problems associated with gambling.
The book will be of particular interest to students, practitioners and scholars in public policy. It will also be pertinent to readers in economics, political science and business
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Building Better Communities: The Story of the National Recreation Association (1906-1965)
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Caregiving--Leisure and Aging
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De-Stalinization and the House of Culture: Declining State Control over Leisure in the Ussr, Poland and Hungary, 1953-89
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Redeeming the Wasteland: Television Documentary and Cold War Politics (Communications, Media, and Culture)
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- One of the best books in this category
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- Woefully inadequate, especially for broadband users
- Saves me a lot of time
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The Symantec Guide to Home Internet Security (Symantec Press)
Andrew Conry-Murray , and
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One of the best books in this category.......2007-01-02
When I review a book like this, my question is mainly "Could my Mom make sense of this if she had to remove a virus?" To that end, I look for things like clarity, accuracy, and focus. I'm glad to say this book by Conry-Murray and Weafer delivers.
Overall, the book has good, clear writing, solid examples, and thorough coverage of the topics it hits on. Good writing and clear examples go a long way in a book. Also, it's focused and hits its target well. I think that the average user who is comfortable with their computer but not technically advanced will find this material accessible.
The book starts out with a pretty good introduction to the book and the topic, at large. The scoping of the book is well laid out and I concur, it does a good job of the topic. Other topics that ae wel covered include identity theft, spam, and keeping your family safe online.
Getting rid of unwanted programs -- viruses, adware, spyware, and trojan horses -- is done pretty well. Keeping your Windows box secure, firewalls, and keeping your famliy safe while they're online is also pretty good.
Topics not well covered include broadband routers (as mentioned by another user) and how to use Windows as a non-admin account (again, from another reviewer). Both of these are serious omissions.
One big complaint that I have about this book is that it tries to be so vendor neutral that it sometimes fails the reader. What criteria should a user keep in mind when choosing AV software or a desktop firewall? Perhaps the authors didn't want to appear partisan, but honestly it's a pretty big question. They also didn't do a throrough job of getting users to keep their AV updated. And how should users detect if their software is outdated? What about Windows Update, which is another useful tool? All of these are commonly found scenarios (especially as users buy computers with AV installed but never update it) in the real world.
In terms of wireless and VoIP, I have to ask what about other, non Windows systems for setting up WEP or WPA?
While the writing is clear, the book could have benefited from another 25 or 40 pages of material covering the above. As it stands its pretty good, I hope an update can address these deficiencies and keep the clarity and focus just as high as its been.
Excellent book .......2005-12-18
If I were to recommend one book on security to a home user, it would be this book.
First let me be clear, this book does not contain EVERYTHING relative to every subject that falls under the category of Home Internet Security. (That would take a library, not a book.)
This book will not tell you how to use every feature of any particular security software program. This book was never intended to do these things.
This book was intended to shed light on the current Internet security threats, and how to best manage them. And even though this book carries the Symantec brand name (the makers of Norton Anti-Virus and Norton Internet Security), this book is NOT biased to any particular security software. The author painstakingly gives a very thorough overview of each current major security threat or area of concern. (It even includes pending legislation in the U.S. Congress and relative links to related government documents.) The author then provides a very balanced list the best widely accepted software programs and practices to address each security threat. (Many commercially available, shareware, and free options are discussed for each security threat.) The author discusses both prevention and cure, and includes several references to many helpful web sites, security software vendors, security software review sites, technical forums, and even free online security scans.
And while this book educates, each individual reader must still take ownership of his or her own security situation. But since each reader will have different circumstances, this is a very appropriate approach. What this book provides is an EXCELLENT place for the beginning or everyday computer user to learn all about the current security threats facing computer users today. In this intent, this book is very thorough. Using this book as a educational guide and a check list, the reader can progress on to other reading about specific software programs to counter the security risks that have been discussed and actually understand the language of computer and Internet security.
The author consistently puts useful information in front of the reader in the simplest language possible for what, in truth, is very technical subject matter. The author consistently reiterates material across chapters in case the you spot read a single chapter regarding a specific threat you are interested in learning more about. Each chapter also contains a summary checklist of Dos and Don'ts.
If you are learning about computer security risks, this is the best book I've seen. I build PCs for customers, and this is going to save me a lot of typing and technical support calls. All of my customers are getting a copy of this book.
Woefully inadequate, especially for broadband users.......2005-12-05
I am ruthless about home network security. FOr example, I want to inflict violence on people who double-click on an attachment just because it's there like that behavior is some kind of animal instinct.
Casual computing is no different than casual sex: not protecting yourself is extremely dangerous at best. The people who don't understand this are the ones who need books like this, but unfortunately this book is not written for that audience.
It does not cover in enough detail a lot of the products, hardware or software, that are available to keep systems protected. I was very glad to see that the book did not cover only Microsoft and Symantec products. Some products, like Zone Lab's ZoneAlarm, were given mention as well as a small section dedicated to Firefox. Unfortunately, most of the other products only came in a brief mention of products that are available for a specific function.
I was also disappointed that alternative e-mail clients were not addressed. The book covered browser (read: Internet Explorer) alternatives, but I did not see anything about alternatives to Outlook, or as it has become known in many IT areas LookOut or Outbreak. Eudora has multiple precautions built into it to notify users of dangerous links or files, and Thunderbird is also a very good alternative. Both Eudora and Thunderbird are immune to mail-based ActiveX attacks and both have a fairly good spam filter that can be trained to filter out only those e-mails that you don't want. Unfortunately, I did not see these listed nor did I see a section for alternative e-mail clients at all. As much as Microsoft would like you to think otherwise, Outlook is not the only viable e-mail client in town.
One of the most glaring omissions from this book is that broadband routers are given nary a mention! I realize that the title states that it's home Internet security. This covers dial-up just as much as broadband. But the fact is that broadband use is skyrocketing. Thousands of people get broadband for their home every day and the majority of those households have more than one PC. Unfortunately, the lack of broadband-specific information in this book is stunning.
Wireless security is covered, but it was nothing more than a brief overview. Considering that entire books are dedicated to wireless security, the way that wireless security was discussed here would not be of much use to a lot of people. Since I mentioned network address translation, good luck finding anything about NAT in this book. NAT is one of the fundamental principles upon which home network security is based. To have a network security book that doesn't mention NAT, what it does, how it's used, or why it's important is inexplicable.
To compound this lack of information, all of the firewalls that are mentioned are meant to be installed on the PC to be protected. Although I admitted to using a software firewall earlier, I use it for monitoring more than protection. One of the first rules of security is that you never install and thus rely upon a firewall that is installed on the system that is to be protected. Yet no where does the book mention alternatives, such as the aforementioned broadband router. Even if a household has only one PC and a broadband, that is no excuse not to get a broadband router even if the router has four network ports on it.
I'll give the authors a lot of credit that this book was not a Symantec marketing book. In fact, Symantec products were not the focus anywhere in this book. By that I mean that no Symantec product was highlighted at the expense of competing products. Compared to books that are from other software companies, you'd never be able to tell that this book is a Symantec book because of its product balance. That was definitely refreshing.
Consider this to be a Cliff's Notes type of book. It's good for getting the basics, but if you rely on it you will be missing out on a lot of information that you really do need to know.
Saves me a lot of time.......2005-11-04
The Symantec Guide to Home Internet Security (Paperback)
by Andrew Conry-Murray, Vincent Weafer
ISBN: 0321356411
I gave this book to my neighbour as I made a lot of frustrating trips to her house tending to her sick windows PC. It has saved me a lot of time and now the lady knows what she is supposed to do and what might happen if she does something that the book tells her not to do. The best part is that she refers to only the checklist portion of the book and gets by with it.
The threat from spam, spyware and adware is so real that I recommend this book to every one who primarily uses a computer at home to email, surf or trade online.
I sorely missed the fact that the book does not have a LARGE PRINT edition.
The coauthor Andrew Conry-Murray is the technology editor at IT Architect, an award-winning publication for information technology professionals.
The coauthor Vincent Weafer has an extensive range of experience, gained from more than 20 years in the information technology industry, ranging from software development, systems engineering, to security research positions.
I give this book 5 stars on a scale of 5, 5 being the highest. I strongly recommend this book.
Niloufer Tamboly, CISSP
An excellent title for home Internet users .......2005-10-27
Windows is today by far the most popular platform for workstation and
desktop computers. However, it has also proven to be the most susceptible
to a wide variety of attacks, many of which being of a distributed
(mass-spreading) nature.
Regardless of the important steps that Microsoft has taken to provide a
sufficient out-of-the box level of security, a default Windows
installation remains far from secure and not likely to survive for
long against the various hazards that access to the Internet hides. Truth
is that few users are even aware of these hazards -until it is too late-, much less being able to make an educated choice among all these protective software titles with fancy names out there.
This is where Symantec Guide to Home Internet Security comes to the rescue,
offering a consistent and easy to comprehend source of information to both
the completely novice users and those with limited knowledge in the
ways of computer security. Without going into unnecessary technical
details, it explains all that a user needs to know to protect his
privacy in windows environments.
For those that do not know, Symantec has been established as one of the
leading companies in the field of computer security globally, offering it's own
quality software solutions -with best examples the Norton Anti-Virus and
Internet Security suite. However this book is in no way written to promote
or focus to any specific software. It aims to educate the reader so that
he is able to make his own sensible choices of security-related software
and it definitely succeeds in it...
Symantec's Guide to Home Internet Security is of the few security-related
books that demand no experience or previous knowledge. In it's about 200
pages, it manages to teach with illustrative examples, tables and images
everything from the ground, without becoming tiresome or confusing to the
reader at any point.
The material covered is well distributed into 10 chapters. More
specifically:
Chapter 1 is a short introduction to the main types of Internet
risks. It shows how the Internet is full of cunning/malicious users that
will do anything to take advantage of every valuable bit of information
that we exchange.
Chapter 2 covers the most well-established techniques of
identity-stealing. It teaches you important methods to prevent them and
react in the event of identity theft.
Chapter 3 explains the logic behind firewalls, in which cases they
can protect us and how they can be used to effectively do so.
Chapters 4 and 5 cover the large subject of Malware (malicious
software). You will learn in what ways Viruses, Worms, Spyware, Adware and
Trojan horses can harm your system, how you can minimize the possibility
of being infected, in what ways you can utilize protective
software as a measure of prevention and restoration and what are the
criteria according to which you should choose those software products.
Chapter 6 continues with the subject of SPAM messages, whether they
just carry annoying advertisements or act as means of Information Phising
and Social Engineering techniques. This chapter will teach you a great deal of these techniques, how to filter out SPAM messages and determine the validity of any potentially harmful message.
Chapter 7 focuses generally on good practices for keeping your
Windows system in good health.
Chapter 8 is dedicated in presenting methods for protecting other
members of your family/environment that will use your computer with
possibly less knowledge about security or underage from unwanted content.
Windows features and extra tools for filtering access to unwanted content
are described, along with recommendations for optimum implementation.
Chapter 9 speaks about security in Wireless/Portable devices and
VoIP applications. Common usage mistakes are pointed with regard to the
severity of their potential exploitation.
Finally, Chapter 10 introduces the basic principles of
cryptography, it's most widely used applications and possible ways that we
can take advantage of it to protect our privacy.
Conclusion: If you are not familiar at all with security or have your doubts in some
things, this book can literally save you! The material covered is absolutely necessary for the survival of any windows station connected to the Internet and reading Symantec's Guide to Home Internet Security is probably the easiest way to learn it.
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