Arts Textbooks

New and Published Textbooks

1. The Guided Reader to Teaching and Learning Music

   Edited by Jonathan Savage

   The Guided Reader to Teaching and Learning Music draws on extracts from the published work of some of the most influential education writers to provide insight, guidance and clarity about key issues affecting Music teachers. The book brings together key extracts from classic and contemporary...

   Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge
2. The Music Documentary

   Acid Rock to Electropop

   Edited by Benjamin Halligan, Robert Edgar, Kirsty Fairclough-Isaacs

   Series: Routledge Music and Screen Media Series

   The Music Documentary offers a wide-range of approaches, across key moments in the history of popular music, in order to define and interrogate this prominent genre of film-making. The writers in this volume argue persuasively that the music documentary must be considered as an essential cultural...

   Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Body and Everyday Life

   By Helen Thomas

   Series: The New Sociology

   In recent years, there has been an explosion of interest in the contemporary social study of the body which has raised important theoretical and methodological questions regarding traditional social and cultural analysis. It has also generated corporeal theories that highlight the fluid, shifting,...

   Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
4. Performance Studies

   An Introduction, 3rd Edition

   By Richard Schechner

   The publication of Performance Studies: An Introduction was a defining moment for the field. Richard Schechner's pioneering textbook provides a lively and accessible overview of the full range of performance for undergraduates at all levels and beginning graduate students in performance studies,...

   Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
5. Audio Production Worktext

   Concepts, Techniques, and Equipment, 7th Edition

   By Samuel Sauls, Craig Stark

   Expanded to emphasize the impact media convergence has had on radio production, Audio Production Worktext, Seventh Edition provides a robust introduction to the modern radio production studio, the equipment found in that studio, and the basic techniques needed to accomplish radio production work,...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Focal Press
6. Broadcast News Writing, Reporting, and Producing

   6th Edition

   By Frank Barnas, Ted White

   Need to know how to write and report the news? Want to know how to deliver it simultaneously for a television format, blog, Twitter, Facebook, website, and more? Broadcast News Writing, Reporting, and Producing, Sixth Edition shows you how it’s done. While retaining intensive coverage of the...

   Published March 3rd 2013 by Focal Press
7. Acting Power

   The 21st Century Edition

   By Robert Cohen

   ‘Robert Cohen’s book, Acting Power, follows the tradition of his other book, Acting One, and has been the veritable bible for acting teachers for the last quarter century.’ – David Krasner, Emerson College ‘This book, above all else, is an attempt to explore the qualities of acting power.... to...

   Published February 27th 2013 by Routledge
8. Experiencing Jazz

   Book and Online Access to Music, 2nd Edition

   By Richard Lawn

   Experiencing Jazz, Second Edition, is an integrated textbook with online resources for jazz appreciation and history courses. Through readings, illustrations, timelines, listening guides, and a streaming audio library, it immerses the reader in a journey through the history of jazz, while placing...

   Published February 18th 2013 by Routledge
9. Broadcast Announcing Worktext

   A Media Performance Guide, 4th Edition

   By Alan R. Stephenson, David E. Reese, Mary E. Beadle

   The Broadcast Announcing Worktext provides you with the skills, techniques, and procedures necessary to enter this highly competitive field of broadcast performance. In addition to the principles of good performance, this book addresses the importance of audience and how to communicate effectively...

   Published February 7th 2013 by Focal Press
10. Music Education

    Source Readings from Ancient Greece to Today, 4th Edition

    Edited by Michael Mark

    Music Education: Source Readings from Ancient Greece to Today is a collection of thematically organized essays that illuminate the importance of music education to individuals, communities and nations. The fourth edition has been expanded to address the significant societal changes that have...

    Published February 4th 2013 by Routledge