Music Production Cultures

Brendan Anthony has produced a visionary, forward-thinking book which is not only fascinating, entertaining, and highly readable, but also rigorously academic. Drawing from an amalgam of professional experience across the music industry and higher education divide, he has woven a detailed and erudite research project through the two. A quite brilliant achievement which I hope will be a landmark in how higher education and industry work for popular music production in the future. Professor Lucy Green, UCL Institute of Education, London, UK In this exciting new book, Brendan Anthony presents a timely and detailed student-centred exploration of teaching and learning in popular music production, engaging producers, performers and professors as he weaves together expert pedagogical advice and profound insights from both sides of the glass. Dr Gareth Dylan Smith, Assistant Professor Music, Music Education, Boston University, USA Brendan Anthony has made a significant contribution to the world of pedagogical music production practice with this volume of work that will be celebrated by educators internationally. This authoritative work has been written from both the perspective of an academic and a working practitioner. It provides an insightful and much needed view of what goes on behind the glass from the lens of an educator and highlights the key issues for academics and students working in the field. The field of music production continues to develop from both technical- and cultural-perspectives that explore both the creation of the technology, its use, and the approach of musicians and record producers and how they create work in the studio. This important text and much needed work will fill a gap in the literature in terms of how we frame popular music production methods from pedagogical and cultural perspectives. Professor Andrew King, Head of School of the Arts, University of Hull, UK