Music & Entertainment Industry

Introduces the process and techniques for researching and writing about music. It provides examples of different types of writing; offers a thorough introduction to music literature; describes various information-searching methods and library-based organizational systems; and explores the wide array of music resources.

Introduces students to the major print and electronic research tools with a strong focus on the connection between music and writing; for use in both undergraduate and graduate music courses that require students to engage in library research or to write research papers.

Examines the approaches and strategies that underpin research in music education, psychology, and performance science; reviews knowledge and skills needed to critique existing studies in these fields and to design and carry out new investigations. Perspectives on qualitative, quantitative, and multi-strategy methodologies are highlighted across the book in ways that help aspiring researchers bring precision to their research questions, select methods that are appropriate for addressing their questions, and apply those methods systematically and rigorously.

Provides a multidisciplinary overview of different discourses and practices, exploring cutting-edge questions from the burgeoning field of artistic research. Intended as a primer on artistic research, it presents diverse perspectives, strategies, methodologies, and concrete examples of research projects situated at the crossroads of art and academia. The book includes chapters on diverse fields of thought and practice, addressing a common thread of questions and problematics.

Revised and updated with new topics, examples, and guiding questions to introduce each chapter's sections; presents a practical guide to the full range of arts-based research (ABR) genres--narrative inquiry, fiction-based research, poetry, music, dance, theatre, film, and visual art. Each genre-specific chapter is paired with an research article or online video link; reviews how the technique was developed, explore its methodological variations and the kind of research questions it can address, and describe diverse sample studies.

Offers an introduction to the principles of educational research; focuses on the types of problems likely to be encountered in professional experiences.

Provides a brief and practical introduction to mixed methods. The text quickly describes the basics of setting up and conducting a study using this methodology, showing the process of research, from ensuring skills for conducting research, acknowledging the steps in planning a study, designing studies with increasing complexity, planning sampling strategies and integration, and writing up the results of your study.

Walford's previously published essays on qualitative educational research.

Provides practical, applied information for the novice qualitative researcher, addressing the "how" of conducting qualitative research in one brief guide. The 30 listed skills are competencies that can help qualitative researchers conduct more thorough, more rigorous, and more efficient qualitative studies.

Guide to researching and writing about music, addressing all the issues that anyone who writes about music. The book is a writing guide and a reference manual in one: the first part, a "how to" section, offers a clear explanation of the purpose of music research and how it is to be done, including basic introductions to the most necessary tools for musical inquiry (with special emphasis on strategic use of the internet), and how they can be accessed and used. The second part is a compendium of information on style and sources for quick reference, including a straightforward presentation of the purpose and use of citation and reference systems as they are applied to and in music.

Provides help for junior scholars and graduate students about the process and products of academic writing, differentiating between business writing skills for memos, proposals, and reports, and the scholarly writing that occurs in journals and books.

Supports students wherever they are in their writing process. Lays out focused advice for writing common academic and real-world genres, while the Reference covers the range of writing skills that students needs as they work across genres and disciplines. Genre-based readings -- including narratives, reports, arguments, annotated bibliographies, evaluations, proposals and rhetorical, causal, and literary analyses.