Music and the Music Business

Sidney Shemel and M. William Krasilovsky's This Business of Music (New York: Billboard Publications, 1977— $16.95)

Marianne Lindvall's ABBA: The Ultimate Pop Group (New York: A&W Publishers, 1977—$6.95, paper)

Caroline Coon's 1988: The New Wave Punk Rock Explosion (New York: Hawthorn Books, 1978—$4.95, paper)

Mark C. Gridley's Jazz Styles (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1978—price not given, paper)

Raoul Abdul's Blacks in Classical Music (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1977—$8.95)

David Horn's The Literature of American Music in Books and Folk Music Collections: A Fully Annotated Bibliography (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1977—$20.00)

Arthur Jacobs' British Music Yearbook: 1977-78 (New York and London: Bowker, 1977— $27.50)

The Book of Music (London: Macdonald Educational Ltd., 1977—E8.50 or about $17.00)     

Journalism (except writing; see page 141)

Michael F. Wendland's The Arizona Project: How a Team of Investigative Reporters Got Revenge on Deadline (Kansas City: Sheed Adrews & McMeel, 1977—$9.95)

David Frost's "I Gave Them a Sword:" Behind the Scenes of the Nixon Interviews (New York: Morrow, 1978—$9.95)

Tom Wicker's On Press (New York: Viking, 1978—$10.95),

Donald L. Shaw and Maxwell E. McCombs' The Emergence of American Political Issues: The Agenda-Setting Function of the Press (St. Paul, Minn.: 'lest Publishing, 1977—$10.95, paper)

Michael Tracey's The Production of Political Television (London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977—$10.00, paper)

Donovan H. Bond and - I. Reynolds McLeod, eds. Newsletters to Newspapers: Eighteenth-Century Journalism (Morgantown: West Virginia University School of Journalism, 1977—$10.00, paper)     

General Media and Journalism

William E. Francois, Introduction to Mass Communications and Mass Media (Columbus, Ohio: Grid Publishing Co., 1977—$9.95, paper)

John M. Phelan's Mediaworld: Programming the Public (New York: Seabury Press, 1977—$8.95)

Harvey L. Zuckman and Martin J. Gaynes' Mass Communications Law in a Nutshell (St. Paul, Minn.: West Publishing Co., 1977—price not given but under $10.00, paper)

Communication Abstracts (Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Publications, quarterly beginning Spring 1978/$30.00 for individuals; $54.00 for institutions, and these are introductory rates)

Margaret Harmon, ed. Working with Words: Careers for Writers (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1977—$7.95)

Walter Fox's Writing the News: Print Journalism in the Electronic Age (New York: Hastings House, 1977—$8.95/4.50)

Lee Finkle's Forum for Protest: The Black Press During World War II (Ruthorford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1975—$12.50)

Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin's The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing 1450-1800 (Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press [London: NLB], 1976—$27.00)

George Seldes' Even the Gods Can't Change History: The Facts Speak for Themselves (Secaucus, N.J.: Lyle Stuart Inc., 1976—$10.00)

Denis McQuail's Review of Sociological Writing on the Press (London: IIMSO, 1976—£16 or about $2.00, paper, including postage)     

Books of the Month: The BBC's 50th Anniversary

Edward Pawley's BBC Engineering: 1922-1972 (London: BBC, 1972—L 7.00, or about $18.00)

Peter Black's The Biggest Aspidistra in the World (London: BBC, 1972—L2.00, or about $5.00)

BBC Handbook 1973 (London: BBC, 1972—75p, or about $1.75, paper)

British Broadcasting: 1922-1972—A Select Bibliography (London: BBC, 1972—75p. or about $1.75, paper)

Broadcasting Technology—Past, Present and Future (London: Institution of Electrical Engineers, P. O. Box 8, Southgate House, Stevenage, Herts. SG1 1HQ, England, 197 2—L5.O0 or about or about $12.50, paper)

Andrew Boyle's Only the Wind Will Listen: Reith of the BBC (London:Hutchinson, 1972—L4.50, or about $11.25)

John Snagge and Michael Barsley's Those Vintage Years of Radio (London: Pitman, 1972—L3.00, or about $7.50)

Violence on Television: Programme Content and Viewer Perception (1972, 220 pp., L2.00, or about $5.00)

Charles Curran, "The BBC in the Eighties" (1972, 22 pp., gratis)

Taste and Standards in BBC Progammes: A Study by the BBC for its General Advisory Council January 1973, 11 pp., gratis

BBC Record (bi-monthly, gratis on request)

Annual Report and Accounts of the British Broadcasting Corporation (annual, cost varies but now approximates $4.00 per year)

George Hills, Broadcasting Beyond One's Frontiers (1971, 59 pp., gratis from BBC, P.O. Box 76 Bush House Strand, London WC2B 4PH)

Brian Groombridge's Television and the People: A Program for Democratic Participation (Baltimore: Penguin Educational Specials, 1972—$1.95)     

Popular Illustration

The Cartoon Connection: The Art of Personal Humour (London, and North Pomfret, Vt.: Hamish Hamilton, 1978—E5.50/$14.50)

The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics edited by Bill Blackbeard and Martin Williams (Washington/New York: Smithsonian Press/Harry Abrams, 1977—price not given but about $25/12.95 for the two formats)

Ring Lardner's You Know Me Al: The Comic Strip Adventures of Jack Keefe (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Harvest Books, 1979—$6.95, paper)

Erving Goffman's Gender Advertisements (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979—$12.50)     

Educational Broadcasting

Bernard Rubin's Media, Politics &;amp; Democracy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1977- $8.00/4.00)

Forrest P. Chisman's Attitude Psychology and the Study of Public Opinion (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1977—$13.50)

Sidney Kraus, ed. The Great Debates: Kennedy vs. Nixon, 1960 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1977—$17.50/5.95)

Jean Schwoebel, Newsroom Democracy: The Case for Independence of the Press (Monograph Series No. 2, Iowa Center for Communication Study, School of Journalism, Yniversity of Iowa, Iowa City 52242—$2.50, paper)

Rex Winsbury, New Technology and the Journalist (Thomson Foundation Editorial Study Centre, Thomson House, Cardiff, CF1 1WR, Great Britain-75p or about $1.25, paper)

Laura Longley Babb, ed. The Editorial Page (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1977 &;ndash;price not given, paper)

Bob Roberts, for telling us about Magazine Studies Quarterly (MSQ Ltd., Box 2054, Muncie, Indiana 47302—about $5.00 per year for four issues)

Morgan Harris and Patti Karp's How to Make News and Influence People (Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: TAB Books, 1976—$7.95, with a paperback edition available, for which no price given)

Alice Payne Hackett and James Henry Burke's 80 Years of Best Sellers: 1895-1975 (New York: R.R. Bowker, 1977—$14.95)

Mort Walker's Backstage at the Strips (New York: A&;amp;W Publishers, Inc., 95 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. 10016—$6.95, paper)

Peter Haining's Terror: A History of Horror Illustrations from Pulp Magazines (New York: A&;amp;W Publishers, 1977—$12.50/6.95)     

Journalism

Irving E. Fang Television News (New York: Hastings House, 1972—$12.95/7.50)

Ivan and Carol Doig's News: A Consumer's Guide (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1972—available in hard and soft cover with a teacher's guide, cost not known)

David J. LeRoy and Christopher H. Sterling (eds.) Mass News: Practices, Controversies and Alternatives (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1973—about $6.95/3.95, with advance copies available this month)

William L. Rivers, William B. Blankenburg, Kenneth Starck, and Earl Reeves' Backtalk: Press Councils in America (San Francisco: Canfield Press, with distribution by Harper & Row of New York, 1972—price not known, paper)

Laurence Leamer's The Paper Revolutionaries: The Rise of the Underground Press (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972—$8.95/2.95)

John Whale's Journalism and Government: A British View (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1972—$4.95)

Al Morgan's The Whole World is Watching (New York: Stein & Day, 1972—$6.95)

J.H. Schacht's A Bibliography for the Study of Magazines (Urbana, Ill.: Institute of Communications Research, 1207 West Orange St., 1972—single copies free on request),     

Popular Illustration

Susan E. Meyer's America's Great Illustrators (New York: Harry Abrams, 1978—$35.00)

Donald Walton's A Rockwell Portrait: An Intimate Biography (Kansas City: Sheed, Andrews & McMeel, 1978—$12.95)

William Hillcourt's Norman Rockwell's World of Scouting (New York: Harry Abrams, 1977—$17.95)

Leonard S. Marcus' The American Store Window (New York: Whitney Library of Design/ Watson-Guptill, 1978—$25.00)

J.C. Cooper's An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Traditional Symbols (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1978— $14.95)

Cathy Guisewite's The Cathy Chronicles (Kansas City: Sheed, Andrews & McMeel, 1978—$12.95/7.95)

Frank Lohan's Pen and Ink Techniques (Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1978—$5.95)

Allen Hurlburt's The Grid: A Modular System for the Design and Production of Newspapers, Magazines, and Books (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1978—$16.95)

Edward Booth-Clibborn, ed. European Illustration 78/79 (New York: Hastings House, 1978— $47.50)

Ken Kesey's Sorcercers: A Collection of Fantasy Art (New York: Ballantine, 1978—$7.95, paper)

Rock Art: The Golden Age of Record Album Covers (New York: Ballantine, 1977—$8.95, paper)

David Sandison's Rockvisions: The Art of David Oxtoby (New York: Dutton, 1978—$8.95, paper)

Byron Preiss, ed. The Illustrated Roger Zelazny (New York: Baronet Publishing Co., 1978—$8.95, paper)

Ian Summers, ed. Tomorrow and Beyond: Masterpieces of Science Fiction Art (New York: Workman Publishing Co., 1978—$19.95/9.95)

Jose Pierre's An Illustrated Dictionary of Pop Art (London: Eyre Methuen/Woodbury, N.Y.: Barron's Educational Series, 1977—$3.95, paper)

Gene Baro's Graphicstudio U.S.F.: An Experiment in Art and Education (Brooklyn, N.Y.: Brooklyn Museum, 1978—price not given, paper)

Joni K. Miller & Lowry Thompson's The Rubber Stamp Album (New York: Workman Publishing Co., 1978—$12.50/6.95)     

Music and Popular Culture

Gaye Tuchman, Arlene Kaplan Daniels, and James Benet, eds. Hearth and Home: Ima9es of llomen in the Mass Media (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978—no price given, but available in hardback and paperback)

Maurice Horn's Women in the Comics (New York: Chelsea House, 1977—$15.00)

Charles K. Wolfe's Tennessee Strings: The Story of Country Music in Tennessee (Knoxville, Yniversity of Tennessee Press, 1977—$3.50, paper)

Anthony Hopkins' Downbeat Music Guide (London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1977—$4.95)

Peter L. Skolnik's Fads: America's Crazes, Fevers & Fancies From the 1890s to the 1970s (New York: Crowell, 1978—$9.95)     

Books of the Month: A Bunch on Broadcasting

Michael J. Nyhan (ed.) The Future of Public Broadcasting (New York: Praeger Special Studies, 1976—$19.95/6.95)

Elizabeth J. Heighton and Don R. Cunningham's Advertisin in the Broadcast Media (Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 1976-412.95)

Ruth Thomas' Broadcasting and Democracy in France (London: Crosby Lockwood Staples, 1976—E6.00, or about $12.00) Arthur Williams' Broadcasting and Democracy in West Germany (London: Crosby Lockwood Staples, 1976—E6.00, or about $12.00)     

The World Of Music

R. Murray Schafer's The Tuning of the World (New York: Knopf, 1977—$12.95)

Garry E. Clarke's Essays on American Music (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1977—$16.95)

Walter Herdeg, ed. Graphis/Record Covers (New York: Hastings House, 1974—$21.50)

Northrop Moore's A Matter of Records (New York: Taplinger Publishing, 1977—$10.95)

Thomas Busby's A Grammar of Music (New York: Da Capo Press, 1976—$25.00)

Thomas Busby's A Musical Manual or Technical Directory (New York: Da Capo Press, 1976—$17.50)     

Media Production

Mitchell V. Charnley and Blair Charnley, Reporting (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1979—$9.95, paper)

Jerry McGuire's How to Write, Direct & Produce Effective Business Films and Documentaries (Blue Ridge Sunimit, Pa.: TAB Books, 1978—$14.95)

David W. Samuelson's Motion Picture Camera & Lighting Equipment: Choice & Technique (London and New York: Focal Press, 1977 (but not released in the US until February 1979)

David W. Samuelson's Motion Picture Camera Techniques (New York: Focal Press/Hastings House, 1978—$8.95, paper)

H. William Bockhus, Jr.'s Advertising Graphics (London: Collier Macmillan/New York: Macmillan, 1979—price not given, paper)

Stuart W. Hyde's Television and Radio Announcing (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979-415.95)

Robert McLeish, The Technique of Radio Production (London and New York: Focal Press, 1979—$18.95)

David Lachenbruch's Videocassette Recorders: The Complete Home Guide (New York: Everest House, 1979—$6.95, paper)

Charles Bensinger, The Video Guide (Video-Info Publications, P.O. Box 1507, Santa Barbara, Calif. 93102—$14.95, paper)

Deirdre Boyle, ed. Expanding Media (Phoenix, Ar.: Oryx Press, 1977—$13.95)

Dan Poynter's The Self-Publishing Manual: How to Write, Print and Sell Your Own Book (Parachusting Publications, P.O. Box 4232, Santa Barbara, Calif. 93103—$14.95/9.95)     

The World of Music

Musical Instruments of the World: An Illustrated Encyclopedia (New York: Bantam Books, 1978—$9.95, paper)

Warren Craig's Sweet and Lowdown: America's Popular Song Writers (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1978—$25.00)

Norm N. Nite's Rock On: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock 'n Roll– The Modern Years, 1964-Present (New York: Crowell, 1978—$14.95)

Jerry Osborne and Bruce Hamilton's Popular and Rock Records 1948-1978 (Phoenix, Arix.: O'Sullivan Woodside & Co., 1978—$7.95, paper)

Kenny Rogers and Len Epand's Making it with Music: Kenny Rogers' Guide to the Music Business (New York: Harper & Row, 1978—$12.95)

Anthony Fawcett's California Rock/California Sound: The Music of Los Angeles and Southern California (Los Angeles: Reed Books, 1978—$19.95/9.95)

Rock Critics' Choice: The Top 200 Albums (New York: Quick Fox, 1978—$4.95, paper)

Alan Kinzler's Bob Dylan: The Illustrated Record (New York: Harmony Books/Crown, 1978—$15.00/8.95)

John Blair's The Illustrated Discography of Surf Music 1959-1965 (J. Bee Productions, P.O. Box 1584, Riverside, Calif. 92502—$4.00, paper)

Alan Lomax's Folk Song Style and Culture (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books (Rutgers), 1978—$6.95, paper)

Nat Hentoff's The Jazz Life (New York: DaCapo, 1978—$5.95, paper)

George Hoefer, Music on My Mind: The Memoirs of an American Pianist (New York: DaCapo, 1978—$6.95, paper)

Valerie Wilmer's As Serious as Your Life: The Story of the New Jazz (London: Allison & Busby, 1977—E6.50 or about $13.00)     

Foreign and International Media

Allan M. Winkler's The Politics of Propaganda: The Office of War Information, 1942-1945 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978—$11.95)

46. Mass News Media and the Third World Challenge by Leonard R. Sussman (80 pp.)

49. International News and the American Media by Barry Rubin (71 pp.)

Kees Van Der Haak and Joanna Spicer's Broadcasting in the Netherlands (London and Boston: Routledge &; Kegan Paul, 1977—$7.95, paper)

Tomo Martelanc, et al. External Radio Broadcasting and International Understanding: Broadcasting to Yugoslavia (Paris: Unesco/ New York: Unipub, 1977—$2.75, paper)

John A. Lent's Asian Mass Communications: A Comprehensive Bibliography-1977 Supplement (School of Communications, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa. 19122—$25.00 1 paper)     

International Communications

Alan P.L. Liu, Communications and National Integration in Communist China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971—$8.50)

Hamid Mowlana's International Communication: A Selected Bibliography (Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt, 1971—$3.75, paper)

Joan Bakewell and Nicholas Garnham, The New Priesthood: British Television Today, (London: Penguin Press, 1970—about $7.00)

Michel Verhayden, La Radio-Television Face Au Pouvior: L'experience Belge (Louvain: Universities Catholique, Centre des Techniques de Diffusion, 1970—$5.20, paper)     

Photography

Photography Year: 1977 Edition (Alexandria, Va.: Time-Life Books, 1977—price not given)

Shirley Glubok's The Art of Photography (New York: Macmillan, 1977—$7.95)

Paul Dickson's Out of this World: American Space Photography (New York: Dell Books, Delta Special, 1977—E9.95, paper)

Garry Winogrand's Public Relations (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1977—$9.95, paper)

Michael Emory's Windows (Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1977—$25.00)

Donna-Lee Phillips and Lew Thomas, eds. Eros and Photography: An Exploration of Sexual Imagery and Photographic Practice (Camerawork/NFS Press, P.O. Box 31040, San Francisco, Calif. 94131—$l0.95, paper)     

British and Australian Media

Graham Cleverley's The Fleet Street Disaster: British National Newspapers as a Case Study in Mismanagement (London: Constable [Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Publications] , 1976—4.50 [$12.95])

Recent Books on Mass Media with British Imprints, January 1975-September 1976 (41 pp.)

Current British Research on Mass Media and Mass Communication: Register of Ongoing and Recently Completed Research (74 pp.)

Television and Radio 1977 (Independent Broadcasting Authority, 70 Brompton Road, London SW3 I EY, England–L1.40, or about $2.50, paper)

Davis, Anthony. Television: The First Forty Years (159 pp.)

Fairley, Peter. Television: Behind the Screen (160 pp.)

Davis, Anthony. Television: Here is the News (144 pp.)

Ian K. MacKay, Broadcasting in Papua New Guinea (Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Press [ISBS Inc., P.O. Box 555, Forest Grove, Ore. 971161, 1976—$22.50 in the U.S.)     

2. German-Language Studies

Susan Sontag's On Photography (New York: Farrar, Straus &; Giroux, 1977—$7.95)

Melissa Milar and William Brohaugh, eds. 1978 Photographer's Market (Cincinatti, Ohio: Writer's Digest, 1977—$9.95)

John S. Carroll's Photographic Lab Handbook (Garden City, N.Y.: Amphoto, 1977—$10.95, paper)

Dieter Frobisch and Hartmut Lamprecht's Graphic Photo Design: Lab Techniques in Color and Black and White (Garden City, N.Y.: Amphoto, 1977—$14.95)

Dennis Longwell's Steichen: The Master Prints, 1895-1914: The Symbolist Period (New York: Museum of Modern Art/Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1978—$35.00)

Neal Slavin's When Two or More are Gathered Together (New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1976—$12.95, paper)

Arnold Newnan's Faces USA (Garden City, N.Y.: Amphoto, 1978—$5.95, paper)

Prophotos 1 (Garden City, N.Y.: Amphoto, 1978—$4.95, paper)

Light Vision: Australia's International Photography Magazine (75 Wilson St., South Yarra, Vic. 3141, Australia—19 Australian dollars by surface mail to the U.S. with other and air rates available)

Hal Fischer's Gay Semiotics (NFS Press, P.O. Box 31040, San Francisco 94131—$6.95, paper)

Kent E. Wade, Alternative Photographic Processes (Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Morgan &; Morgan, 1978—$11.95, paper)

The Nikon Manual, Incorporating the Nikkormat and Nikonos (Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Morgan &; Morgan, 1977—$24.95)     

Popular Illustration

Jim Kalett People and Crowds: A Photographic Album for Artists and Designers (New York: Dover Publications, 1978—$5.00, paper)

W.H. Hutchinson The World, The Work & the West of W.H.D. Koerner (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1978—$35.00)

Philippe Garner, ed. The Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts: 1890-1940 (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1979—$35.00)

Colin Naylor and Genesis P-Orridge, eds. Contemporary Artists (London: St. James Press/New York: St. Martin's Press, 1977—E25.00/$50.00)     

Broadcasting and Telecommunications

G.W.A. Dummer's Electronic Inventions: 1745-1976 (Oxford, England: Pergamon Press, 1976—£5.50 or $10.00)

Carl Dreher's Sarnoff: An American Success (New York: Quadrangle/ New York Times Book Co., 1977—$12.50)

George W. Bartlett, ed. NAB Engineering Handbook (Washington: National Association of Broadcasters, 1975—$45.00; $30.00 to NAB and BEA members)

Richard Veith's Talk-Back TV: Two-Way Cable Television (Blue Ridge Summit. Pa.: TAB Books, 1976—$9.95/5.95)

Dan Rather with Mickey Herskowitz' The Camera Never Blinks: Adventures of a TV Journalist (New York: Morros, 1977—$10.00)

F. Gifford's Tape: A Radio News Handbook (New York: Hastings House, 1977—$12.95/6.95)

F. Earle Barcus' Children's Television: An Analysis of Programming and Advertising (New York: Praeger Special Studies, 1977—price not given, but likely around $18.00)

Douglas Davis and Allison Simmons' The New Television: A Public/Private Art (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1977—$14.95)

The Videophile's Newsletter (Jim Lowe, 2014 South Magnolia Drive, Tallahassee, Fla. 32301—$7.50 for five issues)

Separations Procedures in the Telephone Industry: The Historical Origins of a Public Policy, by James W. Sichter (January 1977, Publication P-77-2, 146 pp. $23.40, paper)

The Communications Act Policy Toward Competition: The Sound of One Hand Clapping by Hamilton Loeb (March 1977, Working Paper W-77-1, 68 pp., $ 10.90)

Broadcasting: The Next Ten Years (New York: National Broadcasting Co., Department of Corporate Planning, 1977—apparently free on request, paper)

NFLCP Newsletter (P.O. Box 119, Cambridge, Mass. 02142—$7.50 annually, bimonthly; $15.00 to organizations)

Gary Gerani and Paul H. Schulman's Fantastic Television (New York: Harmony Books/Crown Publishers, 1977—$12.95/5.95)