Music-Business Aspects

When Singer/ Songwriter Timberly K. had an album of songs stolen from her, she created a music copyright guidebook. After reading this book, songwriters will be able to: Explore The Value Of The United States Music Copyright Law, Learn the 6 Exclusive Copyrights Songwriters...

A single song catapulted 26-year-old Pauly Fuemana from the mean streets of South Auckland to global fame, and more money than he'd ever dreamt of. But behind OMC's huge international hit "How Bizarre" and its singer lurked a darker story, fully told here for...

'Hey, you! Beautiful!' The voice was compelling--an order. So I turned around. 'Yeah, you, ' he said. 'What are you doing in here? You look normal.' 'I am, ' I said. Bettye Kronstad met Lou Reed in 1968 as a nineteen-year-old Columbia University student;...

Blackout is an explosive look at the corruption that is running rampant in the industry. And Blackout is an inside account of how corporations erased Black identity from Black radio and mainstream Black music -- and why I chose to fight back.Author: Paul PorterISBN-10:...

Expanded second edition All the inspiration and tools from the best-selling original version, plus 33% more career-changing content. How many times have you thought that there's got to be a better way to reach more people and make more money with your music? With...

(Vocal Instruction). Great singing can inspire us, surprise us, make us laugh, or make us cry. It can draw the listener in, creating a shared experience of stories and emotions, communicating the singer's unique point of view. Singing with Expression presents a step-by-step guide...

Most people regard legal contracts with an inherent suspicion. Having heard scores of horror stories, we in the music business, whether artists, songwriters, producers, or management, are especially cautious - perhaps even paranoid - of any binding agreement, and with good reason. If you...

If you can play guitar (just a little bit) and want to make money teaching, this is the book for you You can get started right away and make great money playing guitar I show you everything you need to know to get started,...

The rise of the Canadian music industry, along with anecdotes and exclusive photos of international rock and pop stars, from the perspective of Canada's foremost music magazine from the 70s to the 90s.Author: Keith SharpISBN-10: 1459721942ISBN-13: 9781459721944Publisher: Dundurn PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/27/2013Pages: 264Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.91lbsSize:...

MUSIC 4.0: A SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR MAKING MUSIC IN THE INTERNET AGEAuthor: Bobby OwsinskiISBN-10: 1480355143ISBN-13: 9781480355149Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2014Pages: 298Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.80lbsSize: 10.90h x 8.40w x 0.80d

"Your Band Is A Virus - Behind-The-Scenes And Viral Marketing For The Independent Musician" is the essential, bestselling music marketing guide that uses straight forward language and actionable advice to cover highly effective DIY promotional strategies. Many of them are marketing tips and resources...

THE BUSINESS OF AUDIO ENGINEERING 2ND EDITIONAuthor: Dave HamptonISBN-10: 1476812861ISBN-13: 9781476812861Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2013Pages: 232Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 9.00h x 7.30w x 0.70d

Gender inequality is universally understood to be a continued problem in the music industry. This volume presents research that uses an industry-based approach to examine why this gender imbalance has proven so hard to shift, and explores strategies that are being adopted to try...

Music Business Essentials takes musicians and beginning business students on a journey which imparts not only vital "nuts and bolts" information about the business of music, but provides inspirational and practical tips from a veteran traveler who has successfully navigated his own music business...

A Capitol Juggling Act That Turned Out Right Author: Charles TillinghastISBN-10: 1432729241ISBN-13: 9781432729240Publisher: Outskirts PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/10/2008Pages: 104Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.22d

Covering all the essentials of craft and marketing for launching and sustaining a long, successful writing career, this cutting-edge revision contains an exclusive interview with Oscar-winning songwriter Melissa Etheridge - "I Need to Wake Up" - and shows you, step by step, how to...

Find out what really goes on behind the scenes of the music industry. It''s a true story with unexpected twists and turns along the way. Told by an insiders first hand account, "Behind Nashville" reveals the truth about how the music industry operates.Author: Steve...

Hit Woman is the story of Susan Hamilton's wildly improbable life: from early days as a child prodigy and actor, through heady success on the concert stage, in the boardrooms of Madison Ave. and over the talkback microphones of recording studios all over the...

REGGAE ROADBLOCKS (black and white edition) discusses key issues that have affected the development of the business of Jamaican Reggae at both the national and international levels. The issues raised reflect the perspective of the author, Lloyd Stanbury, from his vantage point as a...

Includes dozens of true insider stories about music production, and anecdotes about artists such as The Smiths, Joy Division, New Order, U2 and more In 1986, The New York Times praised The Chameleons UK's Strange Times, comparing it to The Beatles' Revolver, and critics...

(Book). This book is the perfect resource for program notes, concert spiels, to kill time while the bass player tunes up, or just for fun This most complete collection of humor about and for musicians includes one-liners and jokes ranging from Chopin to Lennon,...

An easy-to-digest overview of the many free and low-cost ways independent musicians, managers and promoters can harness the Internet to gain widespread exposure, attract more fans, and make money with their music. Veteran author, speaker and teacher Bob Baker reveals guerrilla marketing tactics to...

A comprehensive guide to getting the best paying gigs for musicians and singers, from local to international stages - with or without an agent! A music business veteran gives the inside track to creating a profitable career performing music from local clubs to international...

Of all the paths available to today's musicians, the life of the singer-songwriter remains one of the most alluring and popular. This handbook is the ultimate guide for the modern singer-songwriter, full of real-world advice and encouragement for both aspiring and accomplished troubadours. The...

(Berklee Guide). Crowdfund your music career Use Kickstarter, Patreon, Indiegogo, and other crowdfunding tools to connect to your fan base and run a successful fundraising campaign. Mobilize your fans to support your next album, tour, video, or other music project, or to create a...

(Berklee Guide). Learn to engage, excite, captivate and expand your audience These practical techniques will help you to communicate with your listeners on a deeper, more interactive level. As you do, the concert experience will become more meaningful, and the bond between you and...

(Berklee Press). If you dream about a career in the music industry, this book is for you. These practical strategies will help you to prepare for and land your dream job in the music business. Thousands of readers have used this book to educate...

These fourteen original essays examine the fascinating world of music scenes, those largely inconspicuous sites where clusters of musicians, producers, and fans explore their common musical tastes and distinctive lifestyle choices. Although most music scenes come and go with hardly a trace, they nevertheless...

Roy Cape is a Trinidadian saxophonist active as a band musician for more than fifty years and as a bandleader for more than thirty. He is known throughout the islands and the Caribbean diasporas in North America and Europe. Part ethnography, part biography, and...

Award for Best Research in the Field of Record Labels or Manufacturers from the Association for Recorded Sound CollectionsWinner of the Kenneth W. Baldridge Prize from the Phi Alpha Theta Honor Society, Hawaii Region Between the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth century, technology transformed the...

Methods for overcoming pre-performance jitters Notes from the Green Room explains the causes of musicalperformance anxiety and suggests methods for dealing with iteffectively. The authors show how proper preparation?as well astechniques such as learning experiments, relaxation training, tension management, and graded exposure to groups...

Cavaillé-Coll's Monumental Organ Project for Saint Peter's, Rome: Bigger Than Them All, by Ronald Ebrecht, tells the engrossing story of Aristide Cavaillé-Coll's quest to build the largest-ever mechanical-action organ in the biggest church at the time. Cavaillé-Coll is often referred to as the greatest...

Unlike studies that consider punk as subculture and style, this innovative book maps the field of punk-rock labels. Using the ideas of Pierre Bourdieu, it describes the social life of the field and the struggles of punks to live up to their ideals.Author: Alan...

If the opera world is full of "intrigue, double meanings, and devious dramatics," then no place exemplifies this more than the world-famous Metropolitan Opera, where politics, ambition, and oversized egos have traditionally taken center stage along with some of the world's richest music. Drawing...

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As the music business continues to undergo many dramatic changes, music groups are quickly discovering that to build and sustain a successful career, they must stay on the road and do as many shows as possible each year. Because of this, skilled tour managers...

Selling Digital Music, Formatting Culture documents the transition of recorded music on CDs to music as digital files on computers. More than two decades after the first digital music files began circulating in online archives and playing through new software media players, we have...

"A clear, comprehensive look at a murky business." --The Wall Street Journal Your favorite band has just announced their nationwide tour. Should you pay to join their fan club and get in on the pre-sale? No, you decide to wait. But the on-sale date...

Professional studio design is a specialized science, with more than a touch of "black magic" thrown in. Over the past few years, Sound on Sound magazine has made one trip each month to a reader's studio. These visits have demonstrated that it is fairly...

Seasoned conductor Diane Wittry draws a comprehensive roadmap to a successful career in Beyond the Baton. With first-hand understanding of how the role of the conductor has changed across the years, she expertly examines the new set of duties--both on and off of the...

The reigning authority on intellectual property in the Internet age, Lawrence Lessig spotlights the newest and possibly the most harmful culture -- a war waged against those who create and consume art. America's copyright laws have ceased to perform their original, beneficial role: protecting...

Whether you're in a band, a business entrepreneur or just interested in the music business, Label Launch will let you take your fantasies of holding the reigns at your own record label into reality. In fun, easy-to-understand language Veronika Kalmar takes you step-by-step through...

King of the Queen City is the first comprehensive history of King Records, one of the most influential independent record companies in the history of American music. Founded by businessman Sydney Nathan in the mid-1940s, this small outsider record company in Cincinnati, Ohio, attracted...

Inspired by the Hank Williams and Leadbelly recordings he heard as a teenager growing up outside of Boston, Jim Rooney began a musical journey that intersected with some of the biggest names in American music including Bob Dylan, James Taylor, Bill Monroe, Muddy Waters,...

Do you want to pursue a career and succeed in the lucrative area of music publishing? The Art of Music Publishing provides real inspiration and a tangible hands on perspective to this exciting side of the high-risk, high-reward music business. Prepare yourself for a...

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

The Evolution of Electronic Dance Music establishes EDM's place on the map of popular music. The book accounts for various ambiguities, variations, transformations, and manifestations of EDM, pertaining to its generic fragmentation, large geographical spread, modes of consumption and, changes in technology. It focuses...

The music business is a multifaceted, transnational industry that operates within complex and rapidly changing political, economic, cultural and technological contexts. The mode and manner of how music is created, obtained, consumed and exploited is evolving rapidly. It is based on relationships that can...

The autobiography of one of the 20th century's most innovative and wittiest composers/performers/authors who witnessed the birth of modern music.Author: Nicolas SlonimskyISBN-10: 1438491638ISBN-13: 9781438491639Publisher: Excelsior Editions/State University of New YoLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2023Pages: 432Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.92lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.19d

How is the classical music industry responding to the challenges of #MeToo, Black Lives Matter, and other social justice movements? Is increasing attention to equity and diversity in the classical music profession over recent years leading to systemic change? In this book, scholars, activists...