Over 80 stunning, ingenious and absorbing music infographics! Music Made Beautiful presents unique, witty and surprising facts about every music genre, from pop, rock, indie, house, dance, electronic, rap, country and classical. Mixing musical stats with facts on all your favourite leading legends, it features infamous and often ludicrous tales of the music business. More than just a book of words, with graphs, Venn diagrams and charts, this book provides a unique overview of the music world, boasting over 80 original artworks and illustrations and at-a-glance facts to amaze and astound readers. Artworks include: Hip Hop by Numbers Three Chord Wonders The New Economics of the Music Industry Sample This Is It Over When The Fat Lady Sings? and How Many Boys Make a Band?
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Fascinating, insightful, clever and stunning, these infographic diagrams will help you see music and the music industry in a whole new light.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781844038275
Publisert
2014-10-06
Utgiver
Vendor
Cassell Illustrated
Høyde
200 mm
Bredde
160 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
160

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Biographical note

Graham Betts, an architect by training, has been a music business executive for over three decades. A former PR head at CBS Records, he has also been the head of A&R at three different labels and curently heads up the department at Pickwick Records. Graham has contributed to numerous music magazines since the late 1970s and authored more than 20 books on sport and music. He compiled the data for a series of OCC-approved singles and albums charts books for Harper Collins and Virgin books, and is currently finishing an exhaustive encyclopaedia of Tamla Motown Records.