Literature Review

Literature Review
In the book "The Blue Moment" Miles Davis talks about how he would use different instrument from different musical genres to create jazz music. This book can help me a lot because he says that this is what made his music uniquely appealing and I can use this technique to make my music appealing and stand out. By doing this I am making my music my much more approachable to all audiences and can attract more audiences. Even though I don't make jazz music this technique can be used in all areas because it will help me expand my musical ability to create something more unique.
Richard Williams, (2009) The Blue Moment. London. Faber

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I am making this literature review because it can make help me in my music for promotion and how to sell my music. This source is a book which was written in 2005 for the business side of music and the book also mentions the advantages and disadvantages of sales and social media in this day and age. For example, it says that the internet has become the new radio for this generation which is a good thing, however, music in this day and age isn't appreciated or as special as twenty years ago. It also has information about the advantages of media and how it can help an artists success. The book talks about how CD's in the industry now is not the best way to promote music because it takes more time to make and it is less recommended since the year 2000 the CD sales has gone down by 20 percent. However, since the book was written in 2005, this book is thirteen years old which means that the internet has changed a lot and has progressed by a lot in the past thirteen years.
Source Reference:
David Kusek, (2005) The future of music. Boston. Berklee Press

Literature Review
This review was written based on the business of artist management, the book contains information which relates to me as an artist due to the fact that it talks about how an artist can become successful and succeed in the music industry. The book says how an artist in the beginning of their career needs to recognise and be aware that they will have to put all focus and dedication to their life in music. This is one of the biggest steps in music decision making because it requires an artists' full time effort. Also, it mentions the steps to getting a record deal, it says that the key to a successful music career, however, this book was written in 1997 which makes this book outdated, in this day and age their are many artists who aren't signed to a record label. A key example of this is the rapper Not3s, he was an independent artist who got a fan base without any support from a record label, he constantly released music but relied on his fans to share his music and create opportunities for him.
Source reference:
Xavier M. Frascogna , Jr . H . Lee Hetherington (1997) The business of artist management. New York. Billboard Books

Literature Review
This review is about the process of songwriting and the book has interviews from around sixty songwriters from the industry, they talk about their process of writing music and ways to make a good song. Songwriter Willie Dixon writes about how his inspiration from songwriting comes from his life experiences and his preferred genre of blues came from the slavery times in the 20th century. He also says that writing poems helped him get a song together rather than forcefully trying to get a melody come out from his voice. This book relates to me as an artist as it can help find different ways to write music and make the songs that I write more special and contextually more interesting to hear.
Paul Zollo, (1991). Songwriters on songwriting. De Capo Press

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This video talks about how one of the songs from Demi Lovato's album was made the producer talks about how he uses a sample from Splice, even though the sound wasn't made from him, it is better to use a sample which sounds clean on a song to make a song sound professional and clean. This relates to me because one of my songs includes a synth sample which is used through out the entire track, I used this because it makes the track sound professional and the melody itself is really catchy.
How Demi Lovato & Oak Felder made “Sorry Not Sorry” from royalty-free samples
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD1tIcDlunE