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Music Mavens

15 Women of Note in the Industry
By Ashley Walker and Maureen Charles
Series: Women of Power
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Nothing moves us like music. Music Mavens transports readers around the world (and beyond) to a jazz performance in Genoa, an instrument lab in London, a Tokyo taiko dojo, a New York City beatbox battle, and even a film scoring session aboard the starship Enterprise, to... Read More
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Nothing moves us like music.

Music Mavens transports readers around the world (and beyond) to a jazz performance in Genoa, an instrument lab in London, a Tokyo taiko dojo, a New York City beatbox battle, and even a film scoring session aboard the starship Enterprise, to name a few. Along the way, it spotlights artists whose work spans musical genres and industry roles, including composing and songwriting, performing and conducting, audio engineering, producing, and rock photography.

In Music Mavens, 15 extraordinary women reveal how they turned their passions into platforms and how they use their power to uplift others.

Their musical résumés will inspire, but the way each artist lives her life is the real story.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9798890680082

Publisher: Chicago Review Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 17 September 2024

Country: United States

Imprint: Chicago Review Press

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: Teenage

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 358g

Pages: 224

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Ashley Walker Career Development Children’s, Teenage and Educational Fiction Maureen Charles Series: Women of Power Young Adult

About the Author

Ashley Walker is an author, educator, and amateur musician. Sheholdsdegreesin mechanical engineering and artificial intelligence, and she recently graduated from the MFA program in Writing for Children and Young Adults at Vermont College of Fine Arts, where she was a three-time award winner. She lives in San Francisco, California. For more information, visit Ashley's website: www.ashleywalkerbooks.com.

Maureen Charlesalso has an MFA in Writing for Children from Vermont College of Fine Arts and has worked for many years as a writer, editor, and writing coach. She sings, plays guitar and ukulele, and was married to an arranger, orchestrator, and composer of TV and film music. She lives in Pasadena, California. For more information, visit Maureen's website at www.maureencharles.com.

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