Business Aspects

As traditional music career paths become increasingly scarce, 21st-century musicians must reach out to new and diverse audiences to ensure career success and sustainability. Many universities and conservatories now offer entrepreneurship courses for...

The Enterprising Musician’s Legal Toolkit takes musicians from business ideation to self-protection using annotated contracts and other legal content. The book will expand upon The Enterprising Musician’s Guide to Performer Contracts by providing...

iTake-Over: The Recording Industry in the Digital Era sheds light on the way large corporations appropriate new technologies related to recording and distribution of audio material to maintain their market dominance in a capitalist system. All too...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538194867Author Menzie PittmanFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

This book describes the emergence of DIY punk record labels in the early 1980s. Based on interviews with sixty-one labels, including four in Spain and four in Canada, it describes the social background of those who run these labels. Especially...

A Friendly Guide to Launching and Maintaining Your Musical Career It's tough to make a living from one's love of music, but Sheila E. Anderson shows readers how to do just that in How to Grow as a Musician. This encouraging yet realistic guide covers...

Unleash your music career and conquer the dynamic new music industry! In a high-tech world overflowing with ever-changing information, don't let the business side of music be your downfall. Business Basics for Musicians is the ultimate layperson’s...

Are you tired of living paycheck-to-paycheck, being broke and in debt, and watching everyone else become independently wealthy? Well, you’ve come to the right place. Many musicians will admit they know little about personal finance. In Personal Finance...

The Entrepreneurial Muse: Inspiring your career in classical music explores principles of entrepreneurship in a classical music setting, inspiring students, emerging professionals, and educators alike to gain the broader perspective and strategic...

The Enterprising Musician's Guide to Performer Contracts is an empowering resource that provides detailed, plain-language explanations of the clauses commonly found in legal agreements such as engagement (gig) contracts, artist-management contracts, and...

Whether you dream about becoming a rock star or a sought-after talent playing local gigs, Starting Your Career as a Musician will guide you along the path to success. Author Neil Tortorella explores the myriad opportunities in music today and details...

Unleash your music career and conquer the dynamic new music industry! In a high-tech world overflowing with ever-changing information, don't let the business side of music be your downfall. Business Basics for Musicians is the ultimate layperson’s...

An in-depth account of the Black locals within the American Federation of Musicians In the 1910s and 1920s, Black musicians organized more than fifty independent locals within the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) in an attempt to control audition...

Musicians: are you frustrated with promoters and other key, industry people leaving your emails unanswered? Do you wish to get more bookings and promote your projects but don’t know how to network and approach the right people?Oftentimes, promoters are...

The Entrepreneurial Muse: Inspiring your career in classical music explores principles of entrepreneurship in a classical music setting, inspiring students, emerging professionals, and educators alike to gain the broader perspective and strategic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637630976Author Scott BrickellFormat HardbackImprint Forefront BooksPublisher Forefront BooksWeight(grams) 494gDimensions(mm) 238mm * 161mm * 29mm

In the 1960s and 1970s, becoming a rock musician was fundamentally different than playing other kinds of music. It was a learned rather than a taught skill. In On Becoming a Rock Musician, sociologist H. Stith Bennett observes what makes someone a rock...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538153390Author Bobby BorgFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)...

iTunes. Spotify. Pandora. With these brief words one can map the landscape of music today, but these aren't musicians, songs, or anything else actually musical-they are products and brands. In this book, Timothy D. Taylor explores just how pervasively...

How do I get my music played on the radio? Do I really need my own website - can't I just use MySpace? How do I copyright and license my songs? The DIY Music Manual has the answers to these questions ... and more.Over the last couple of years, the face...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538154595Author Carl TopilowFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476706375Author Zack O GreenburgFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

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Researching Live Music offers an important contribution to the emergent field of live music studies.Featuring paradigmatic case studies, this book is split into four parts, first addressing perspectives associated with production, then promotion and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812974683Author Gerald PosnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953910684Author Michael NicholsFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Michael NicholsPublisher Michael NicholsWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

In Great Songwriting Techniques, veteran composer and teacher Jack Perricone shares years of experience in the art, science, and pedagogy of songwriting to teach readers the craft. Whether they write for a small group of friends or in the hopes of...

The music business is an exciting, rewarding, confounding, treacherous, and exhilarating way in which to make a living. For those interested in following their dreams to enter this dynamic and ever-changing industry, nothing less than a road map is...

First-hand advice for musicians from Brian Tarquin, author, who has over twenty years of experience in licensing music to record labels, TV shows, feature films, radio promos, and network promos. This book takes you through how licensing really works:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423422129Author Brooke WentzFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)...

Whether you're a solo artist, band, DJ, EDM producer, or other musician, Making Money With Music gives you strategies to generate revenue, grow your fan base, and thrive in today's technology-driven music environment. Plus, it lists hundreds of services,...

The world's most famous and long-living band started out 60 years ago in London with the mission to bring American blues music to a European audience. The young band expected to last two years at best, the rest is history. This easy-to-read and...

This is your backstage pass to the hidden side of the music industry - the tantrums, the fights, the tensions, the indulgence, the sex, the alcohol, the drugs. The roadies see it all, and now they are sharing their secrets.Roadies are the unsung heroes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989173223Author Silkk the Shocker MillerFormat HardbackPage Count 154Imprint Rocket Press Publishing, LLCPublisher Rocket Press Publishing,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480360655Author Steve GordonPage Count 404Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams) 839gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 192mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538104842Author Rae CaseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989160346Author Chris GreenwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Chris GreenwoodPublisher Chris GreenwoodWeight(grams) 152g

Preparing Musicians for Precarious Work: Transformational Approaches to Music Careers Education promotes career counselling-informed techniques that encourage and guide musicians to drive their careers in necessary new directions. In exposing the 'dark...

An Engaging and Accessible Guide to Achieving Sustained Access in the Music IndustryAs a musician, how can you blend art and survival and still keep loving the business?The Musician's Career Guide, written from the perspective of someone who has engaged...

The widespread perception of singers and musicians as free individuals doing enjoyable and fulfilling work obscures the realities of their occupation. In Unfree Masters Matt Stahl examines recording artists' labor in the music industry as a form of...