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Playing the Changes

Jazz at an African University and on the Road

Darius Brubeck and Catherine Brubeck

University of Illinois Press, 2024

Catherine and Darius Brubeck’s 1983 move to South Africa launched them on a journey that helped transform jazz education. Blending biography with storytelling, the pair recount their time at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, where they built a pioneering academic program in jazz music and managed and organized bands, concerts, and tours around the world.

The Brubecks and the musicians faced innumerable obstacles, from the intensification of apartheid and a lack of resources to the hardscrabble lives that forced even the most talented artists to the margins. Building a program grounded in multi-culturalism, Catherine and Darius encouraged black and white musicians to explore and expand the landscape of South African jazz together Their story details the sometimes wily, sometimes hilarious problem-solving necessary to move the institution forward while offering insightful portraits of South African jazz players at work, on stage, and providing a soundtrack to the freedom struggle and its aftermath.

Frank and richly detailed, Playing the Changes provides insiders’ accounts of how jazz intertwined with struggle and both expressed and resisted the bitter unfairness of apartheid-era South Africa.

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Point of Sale

Analyzing Media Retail

Daniel Herbert

Rutgers University Press, 2020

Point of Sale offers the first significant attempt to center media retail as a vital component in the study of popular culture.  It brings together fifteen essays by top media scholars with their fingers on the pulse of both the changes that foreground retail in a digital age and the history that has made retail a fundamental part of the culture industries.  The book reveals why retail matters as a site of transactional significance to industries as well as a crucial locus of meaning and interactional participation for consumers. In addition to examining how industries connect books, DVDs, video games, lifestyle products, toys, and more to consumers, it also interrogates the changes in media circulation driven by the collision of digital platforms with existing retail institutions.  By grappling with the contexts in which we buy media, Point of Sale uncovers the underlying tensions that define the contemporary culture industries. 
 
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Pop Song Piracy

Disobedient Music Distribution since 1929

Barry Kernfeld

University of Chicago Press, 2011

The music industry’s ongoing battle against digital piracy is just the latest skirmish in a long conflict over who has the right to distribute music. Starting with music publishers’ efforts to stamp out bootleg compilations of lyric sheets in 1929, Barry Kernfeld’s Pop Song Piracy details nearly a century of disobedient music distribution from song sheets to MP3s.
 
In the 1940s and ’50s, Kernfeld reveals, song sheets were succeeded by fake books, unofficial volumes of melodies and lyrics for popular songs that were a key tool for musicians. Music publishers attempted to wipe out fake books, but after their efforts proved unsuccessful they published their own. Pop Song Piracy shows that this pattern of disobedience, prohibition, and assimilation recurred in each conflict over unauthorized music distribution, from European pirate radio stations to bootlegged live shows. Beneath this pattern, Kernfeld argues, there exists a complex give and take between distribution methods that merely copy existing songs (such as counterfeit CDs) and ones that transform songs into new products (such as file sharing). Ultimately, he contends, it was the music industry’s persistent lagging behind in creating innovative products that led to the very piracy it sought to eliminate.
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Pop Song Piracy

Disobedient Music Distribution since 1929

Barry Kernfeld

University of Chicago Press, 2011

This is an auto-narrated audiobook version of this book.
 
The music industry’s ongoing battle against digital piracy is just the latest skirmish in a long conflict over who has the right to distribute music. Starting with music publishers’ efforts to stamp out bootleg compilations of lyric sheets in 1929, Barry Kernfeld’s Pop Song Piracy details nearly a century of disobedient music distribution from song sheets to MP3s.
 
In the 1940s and ’50s, Kernfeld reveals, song sheets were succeeded by fake books, unofficial volumes of melodies and lyrics for popular songs that were a key tool for musicians. Music publishers attempted to wipe out fake books, but after their efforts proved unsuccessful they published their own. Pop Song Piracy shows that this pattern of disobedience, prohibition, and assimilation recurred in each conflict over unauthorized music distribution, from European pirate radio stations to bootlegged live shows. Beneath this pattern, Kernfeld argues, there exists a complex give and take between distribution methods that merely copy existing songs (such as counterfeit CDs) and ones that transform songs into new products (such as file sharing). Ultimately, he contends, it was the music industry’s persistent lagging behind in creating innovative products that led to the very piracy it sought to eliminate.
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Pow! Right in the Eye!

Thirty Years behind the Scenes of Modern French Painting

Berthe Weill

University of Chicago Press, 2022

Memoir of a provocative Parisian art dealer at the heart of the 20th-century art world, available in English for the first time.
  
Berthe Weill, a formidable Parisian dealer, was born into a Jewish family of very modest means. One of the first female gallerists in the business, she first opened the Galerie B. Weill in the heart of Paris’s art gallery district in 1901, holding innumerable exhibitions over nearly forty years. Written out of art history for decades, Weill has only recently regained the recognition she deserves.
 
Under five feet tall and bespectacled, Weill was beloved by the artists she supported, and she rejected the exploitative business practices common among art dealers. Despite being a self-proclaimed “terrible businesswoman,” Weill kept her gallery open for four decades, defying the rising tide of antisemitism before Germany’s occupation of France. By the time of her death in 1951, Weill had promoted more than three hundred artists—including Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani, Diego Rivera, and Suzanne Valadon—many of whom were women and nearly all young and unknown when she first exhibited them.
 
Pow! Right in the Eye! makes Weill’s provocative 1933 memoir finally available to English readers, offering rare insights into the Parisian avant-garde and a lively inside account of the development of the modern art market.
 
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Principios del Mercadeo Empresarial Deportivo

First Edition Spanish

Brenda G. Pitts

FiT Publishing, 2023

La industria del negocio del deporte es vasta y diversa. Los estudiantes de hoy son los profesionales del mañana, y es inmensamente importante que estos estudiantes obtengan el conocimiento contemporáneo necesario para operar con éxito en una industria en constante crecimiento. Como ningún otro libro de texto en el campo, la 5ta edición (en inglés) y 1era edición en español de Principios del Mercadeo Empresarial Deportivo cubre los aspectos prácticos y marco teórico necesario para que los estudiantes comprendan y los profesionales comercialicen cualquier negocio relacionado con el deporte en una economía global. Las actualizaciones de esta nueva edición comienzan con un título que reconoce la contribución de billones de dólares del negocio del deporte a la economía global. Como el libro de texto de mercadeo empresarial deportivo más completo hasta la fecha, esta edición abarca la diversidad de espectadores y participantes, deportes y negocios deportivos que comprende la industria, mucho más allá del alcance de los deportes profesionales y universitarios para incluir la investigación de mercadeo deportivo, venta al por menor y fabricación de artículos deportivos, retransmisiones deportivas, negocios de deportes por Internet, turismo deportivo y paradeportes; en resumen, el espectro completo de empresas en las que los estudiantes de programas deportivos de todo el mundo buscarán carreras.

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