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Courtney E. Smith

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Courtney Smith has more than a decade of experience working in the music industry. She left MTV after spending 8 years as a music programmer and manager of label relations, where she was one of the executives who decided which videos went into rotation on all of MTV's 20 music platforms, including programming MTV2 Subterranean (the only nationally broadcast indie rock video show) and mtvU (a 24-hour college music channel) and created launch programs for emerging artists like mtvU's Woodie Awards. She has played an important role in deciding what music entered the pop cannon for the last decade.

Smith specialized in grooming upcoming bands and was an early champion of, and has worked closely with, Death Cab for Cutie, the Shins, Franz Ferdina...more


Average rating: 3.23 · 240 ratings · 81 reviews · 1 distinct work
Record Collecting for Girls...
3.23 of 5 stars 3.23 avg rating — 240 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
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Absolutely loved this book. It's general science, but written with clarity for the layman and clever-bordering-on-snide asides that only a Brit could pull off. The author's occasional bouts of incredulity and awe made this one of the more entertainin...more
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Willie Nelson by Joe Nick Patoski
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Record Collecting for Girls by Courtney E. Smith
" Fun, fascinating, and not just "for girls." I loved every second of it. For a more thorough look at why, check out my blog at: http://dunceacademy.com/1586/record-c... "
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Record Collecting for Girls by Courtney E. Smith
" Hahahaha! Maybe it's my age, but everyone I know has their own funeral music picked out. I plan to give this book to my daughter. I'll just pretend ignorance about the chapter on music to masturbate to. I love Smith's taste in "older" music and am... "
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Record Collecting for Girls by Courtney E. Smith
" There's an entire interlude about the importance of last.fm, so. I was destined to enjoy it. "
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But Enough About Me by Jancee Dunn
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