After spending the last twenty years working in many positions within the music industry, as of the start of my studies I have been in a privileged position to monitor and record the major upheaval that is currently ensuing throughout the new media industry of the present day. From 1997 onwards I have tracked the developments within new media distribution via the Internet and have followed with interest the revolution and phenomenons that have followed. This thesis tries in part to address the spiritual, mental and physical aspects of a phenomenon that has started to re-shape how we communicate and distribute information to each other. This process of new media distribution, which has had a cathartic and sometimes revolutionary feel to its movement, has not at present been resolved and I have tried to understand both sides of the argument from the consumer to industry professionals.

After being in the eye of the media for years and teaching at the Kingdom Music Festival for several years, the Lord dropped in my spirit to put together a book that outlines the information and impartations that I have received over the years. I have ministered to wide-eyed individuals for years on the subject of the media promoting your ministry gifts. There is a way to promote your gift without the added pressure of subjecting yourself to the pains and stains of a sometimes godless media system. You can take your gift to the nations without whoring yourself to the nations. As Kingdom builders and agents of change, we can access the seven cultural mountains and bring about a paradigm shift that sets the world on its face and on fire for the King of Kings. I believe that we can be IN the world and not OF the world. Follow God's plan for success in your ministry, business and life. Success comes knocking on the doors of those who are prepared and equipped to open the door. Are you ready?

The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment is the first sustained engagement with what might said to be - in its melding of concert and gathering, in its evolving relationship with digital and social media, in its delivery of event, experience, technology and star - the art form of the 21st century. This volume offers interviews with key designers, discussions of the practicalities of mounting arena concerts, mixing and performing live to a mass audience, recollections of the giants of late twentieth century music in performance, and critiques of latter-day pretenders to the throne. The authors track the evolution of the arena concert, consider design and architecture, celebrity and fashion, and turn to feminism, ethnographic research, and ideas of humour, liveness and authenticity, in order to explore and frame the arena concert. The arena concert becomes the "real time" centre of a global digital network, and the gig-goer pays not only for an immersion in (and, indeed, role in) its spectacular nature, but also for a close encounter with the performers, in this contained and exalted space. The spectacular nature of the arena concert raises challenges that have yet to be fully technologically overcome, and has given rise to a reinvention of what live music actually means. Love it or loathe it, the arena concert is a major presence in the cultural landscape of the 21st century. This volume finds out why.

Joe Longthorne is one of the UK's leading live entertainers, and an icon of his era. In the golden days of Joe's career, he was one of television's highest paid performers, attracting audiences of over 12 million courtesy of his amazing voice and impressions of singers such as Shirley Bassey, Tom Jones and Frank Sinatra. He has countless gold and platinum albums to his name, has appeared on the Royal Variety Show and sells out iconic venues the world over, including the Palladium, Royal Albert Hall, Sydney Opera House and Drury Lane Chicago. However, tragedy and trauma have haunted the Hull-born singer and he tells his life story in his own words in this wonderful book. From his childhood in the travelling community and singing on the streets for money to the colourful rock and roll lifestyle of sex, drugs, bankruptcy, court appearances and the bizarre, hilarious stories which worldwide touring produces. But Joe's toughest times have been found in his repeated battles with cancer, having fought off the illness multiple times over the last three decades, most recently in the summer of 2014 when Joe beat throat cancer - and began singing again hours after his life-saving operation!This is the true story of one of Britain's most iconic entertainers, a man who has never flinched from doing what he was born for - performing. In a book which for critics and fans have been united in praise, Joe Longthorne lays bare his incredible life in this, his official autobiography.