{"id":2064,"date":"2017-02-28T09:32:52","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T09:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/?p=2064"},"modified":"2017-02-23T18:42:14","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T18:42:14","slug":"2064","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/2017\/02\/28\/2064\/","title":{"rendered":"New Singer-Songwriter Handbook co-edited by Katherine Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2017\/02\/singer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2065 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2017\/02\/singer-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2017\/02\/singer-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2017\/02\/singer-260x393.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2017\/02\/singer-160x242.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2017\/02\/singer.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a>A new book on the practice of being a singer-songwriter has just been published by Bloomsbury, co-edited by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plymouth.ac.uk\/staff\/katherine-williams\">Dr Katherine Williams<\/a>, who is a lecturer in music at the University of Plymouth.<\/p>\n<p>The singer-songwriter, someone who writes and performs their own music, is an ever-present and increasingly complex figure in popular music worlds. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/uk\/the-singer-songwriter-handbook-9781628920291\/#sthash.cdThHGGv.dpuf\"><i>The Singer-Songwriter Handbook<\/i><\/a> provides a useful resource for student songwriters, active musicians, fans and scholars alike.<\/p>\n<p>This handbook is divided into four main sections: Songwriting (acoustic and digital), Performance, Music Industry and Case Studies.<\/p>\n<p>Section I focuses on the &#8216;how to&#8217; elements of popular song composition, embracing a range of perspectives and methods, in addition to chapters on the teaching of songwriting to students.<\/p>\n<p>Section II deals with the nature of performance: stagecraft, open mic nights, and a number of case studies that engage with performing in a range of contexts.This section features an interview between Katherine and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sethlakeman.co.uk\/\">Seth Lakeman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Section III is devoted to aspects of the music industry and the business of music including sales, contract negotiations, copyright, social media and marketing.<\/p>\n<p>Section IV provides specific examples of singer-songwriter personae and global open mic scenes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new book on the practice of being a singer-songwriter has just been published by Bloomsbury, co-edited by Dr Katherine Williams, who is a lecturer in music at the University of Plymouth. The singer-songwriter, someone who writes and performs their own music, is an ever-present and increasingly complex figure in popular music worlds. The Singer-Songwriter&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/2017\/02\/28\/2064\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Singer-Songwriter Handbook co-edited by Katherine Williams<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[36,38,37,677,678],"class_list":["post-2064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-book","tag-katherine-williams","tag-music","tag-seth-lakeman","tag-singer-songwriter","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2064"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2068,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions\/2068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}