How did this record become a hit? The life of a man who always worked for what he wanted.

Author: Skipper Lee Frazier
Paperback:  200 pages
Company: Trafford Publishing  (2001-07-06) (2006-07-06)
ISBN: 1552127923
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Author: David See
Board book:  90 pages Import
Company: Hamlyn  (1980-09-26)
ISBN: 0600346420
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Author: Hal. Fisher
Hardcover: 
Company: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics  (1977-01)
ISBN: 0830615571
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From the first time a record was played over the airwaves in 1906, to a modern club economy that totals $3 billion annually in New York City alone, the DJ has been at the center of popular music. Starting as little more than a talking jukebox, the DJ is now a premier entertainer, producer, businessman, and musician in his own right. Superstar DJs, from Junior Vasquez to Sasha and Digweed, command worship and adoration from millions, flying around the globe to earn tens of thousands of dollars for one night's work. Increasingly, they are replacing live musicians as the central figures of the music industry. In Last Night a DJ Saved My Life, music journalists Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton have written the first comprehensive history of the mysterious and charismatic figure behind the turntables -- part obsessive record collector, part mad scientist, part intuitive psychologist of the party groove. From England's rabid Northern Soul scene to the birth of disco in New York, from the sound systems of Jamaica to the scratch wars of early hip-hop in the Bronx, from Chicago house to Detroit techno to London rave, DJs are responsible for most of the significant changes in music over the past forty years. Drawing on in-depth interviews with DJs, critics, musicians, record executives, and the revelers at some of the century's most legendary parties, Last Night a DJ Saved My Life is nothing less than the life story of dance music.

Author: Bill Brewster, Frank Broughton
Paperback:  336 pages
Company: Grove Press  (2000-07-01)
ISBN: 0802136885
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-- Expert advice, practical tips, and creative strategies -- Everything you need to know to be successful and profitable -- Useful to both the novice and the experienced professional

Author: Stacy Zemon
Paperback:  160 pages
Company: Butterworth-Heinemann  (1997-06)
ISBN: 0240802667
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Company: South-Western, Thomson  (2005)
ISBN: 0538972734
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The Mobile DJ Handbook, Second Edition continues to be an excellent guide for novice and experienced DJs looking to build a successful career as the owner-operator of a mobile disc jockey service. Complete with practical tips, expert advice, and creative strategies, this book serves as the perfect guide on how to market and sell your services as well as develop and expand your business.



This book contains information on becoming a professional, securing bookings, buying equipment and music, and running party dances, contests, and games. Included within the text are sample contracts, an advertisement and brochure, and resource information. The Mobile DJ Handbook is an essential reference guide which offers readers all the knowledge and inspiration needed to run a profitable enterprise.

*New equipment, technology, and practical business advice are integrated
*Includes chapters ranging from performance and professionalism, sales and mareting, dancing and games, to booking opportunities
*Provides essentials forms, contracts, and brochures

Author: Stacy Zemon
Paperback:  208 pages
Company: Focal Press  (2003-01-03)
ISBN: 0240804899
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San Francisco's legendary DJ, Don Sherwood, was the brilliant rebel everyone wants to be. A San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. Herb Caen said, "It is impossible to think of anybody who could come closer than Laurie Harper has in this chronicle of a legendary character who left us laughing through our tears." San Francisco in its hey day.

Author: Laurie Harper
Paperback:  353 pages
Company: AuthorHouse  (2003-04-08) (2003-04-08)
ISBN: 0595273599
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Book tell you how to be a disc jockey

Hardcover:  87 pages Illustrated
Company: Chartwell Books Inc  (1980)
ISBN: 0890093407
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A half-century of previously unpublished interviews with legendary musicians, in a brand-new book from America's foremost oral historian

"I'm one of these people that thinks that everybody has certain gifts, you know, when they're born?I used to play the guitar when I was ten, you know. So I figured maybe my thing is playing the guitar, maybe that's my little gift."?Bob Dylan, interviewed in 1963, from And They All Sang

Throughout the second half of the twentieth century, Pulitzer Prize-winning oral historian Studs Terkel hosted a legendary daily radio program on WFMT in Chicago, presenting listeners with his inimitable take on a wide range of music from classical opera to jazz, blues, gospel, folk, and rock. His latest work of oral history shows us this completely different side of Studs Terkel?that of a brilliant and far-ranging musicologist.

And They All Sang features over forty conversations with some of the greatest musical luminaries of the past century: rock icons Bob Dylan and Janis Joplin, influential folk singer Pete Seeger, jazz geniuses Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie, composers Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein, classical musicians Andres Segovia and Ravi Shankar, legendary opera divas Rosa Raisa and Edith Mason, and gospel giants Thomas A. Dorsey and Mahalia Jackson.

Transcending genres and generations, Studs Terkel goes behind the music and doesn't miss a beat.

Musicians featured include: Marian Anderson, Louis Armstrong, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Bob Dylan, Dizzy Gillespie, Woody Guthrie, Mahalia Jackson, Janis Joplin, Keith Jarrett, Alan Lomax, Catherine Malfitano, Jean Ritchie, Pete Seeger, Ravi Shankar, Richard Tucker.

Author: Studs Terkel
Hardcover:  352 pages
Company: New Pr  (2005-09-06)
ISBN: 1595580336
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