Music-Business Aspects

(Glory Sound). Sing and Celebrate 9 provides everything you need for developing younger elementary choirs in your church Designed for grades K-3, Sing and Celebrate 9 contains a variety of general and seasonal songs for use throughout the church year. Packed with lesson plans,...

This volume brings together academics, executives and practitioners to provide readers with an extensive and authoritative overview of the classical music industry. The central practices, theories and debates that empower and regulate the industry are explored through the lens of classical music-making, business, and...

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...

In-text URLs can be accessed via the "Features" tab of the publisher's website.Conductors face a multitude of hurdles as they strive to obtain a foothold in the professional world. Once they have attained a position, there are obstacles both on and off the podium...

Managing Your Band: A Guide to Artist Management is your go-to guide for artist management in the new music industry, especially independent artists taking the DIY route. Industry insiders Steve Marcone and Dave Philp tackle the work and knowledge required of an artist manager...

The historical significance of music-makers, music scenes, and music genres has long been mediated through academic and popular press publications such as magazines, films, and television documentaries. Media Narratives in Popular Music examines these various publications and questions how and why they are constructed....

CHEAP PROTECTION: COPYRIGHT HANDBOOK FOR MUSIC is a MUST-HAVE practical and reference book for any musician, songwriter, beat maker or music business student or educator to protect the rights, including copyright, in and to music, beats, lyrics and songs. Follow the step-by-step guides and...

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 side' of precarious work in the arts sector, these approaches acknowledge the...

The Beatles. The Beach Boys. Blur, Bowie, Kylie Minogue, Kate Bush, and Coldplay. EMI was one of the big four record companies, with some of the biggest names in the history of recorded music on its roster. Dominating the music industry for over 100...

So, you've decided to become a professional musician--to turn your passion into a career. Now what? Unlike many professions, there is no clear-cut path to success in the music industry.Emmy-winning music producer, studio/session guitarist, and award-winning educator, Kris Hawkins explains some of the most...

Providing real-world guidance and insights for opera producers, Opera Voodoo, is the long-needed "how-to" book for professional opera companies, local amateur productions and university directors. The author discusses the most important roles within any operatic production, how these roles are essential to the final...

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 capitalism has shaped music over...

In 1964, on the brink of the British Invasion, the music business in America shunned rock and roll. There was no rock press, no such thing as artist management -- literally no rock-and-roll business. Today the industry will gross over $20 billion. How did...

From Simon & Schuster, Breaking into the Music Business is Alan Siegel's inside advice from a top entertainment lawyer on how to find the right manager, make a demo that sells you, and more. Surveys the history of the music industry, and uses interviews...

Making Money, Making Music offers tools to encourage creative and adaptive entrepreneurship in the music business. Written for the classroom and the workplace, it introduces readers to core principles and processes and shows how to apply them adaptively to new contexts, facilitating a deeper...

Producing Hit Records takes a behind the scenes look with today's top record producers at what it takes to sit in the big chair. Producers talk about how they got into the field, how they continue to get work, how they motivate artists to...

For everyone interested in starting a record label-to market new talent or to release and promote their own music-there has never been a better time to do it Music can be released, distributed, and promoted for a fraction of traditional costs. Veteran author and...

"Your Band Is A Virus Expanded Edition" is the bigger and better version of the bestselling book "Your Band Is A Virus - Behind-the-Scenes & Viral Marketing for the Independent Musician", written by Independent Music Promotions (www.independentmusicpromotions.com) CEO James Moore. Almost double the size...

(ExpressiveArts). Explore the history of the great composers from a kid's-eye view! These attractive full-color 9x12 laminated posters present 24 composers from the Baroque era to the 20th Century. Each poster comes complete with a photo or illustration on the front and a short...

In The Beat Game, Grammy Nominated music producer Darrell "Digga" Branch shows Hip Hop beat makers and producers how to play in the high-paced game called the music business: Branch draws on his own personal experiences, successes and failures, as well as interviews with...

The Internet is an incredible promotional tool for musicians. You can get radio play, grow a fan base, create a distribution channel and sell CDs and music downloads all online. Imagine how much music you'd sell if *thousands* of people heard your music every...

"[Chertkow and Feehan] are the ideal mentors for aspiring indie musicians who want to navigate an ever-changing music industry." --Billboard Magazine You can make a living with music today. The secret is to tap multiple income streams. Making Money With Music gives you over...

(Book). Tom Harrison's book How to Become a Film Composer gives up-and-coming composers the inspiration, information and the tools necessary to succeed in today's music for media industry. Harrison has spent years working on the front line in Hollywood, where he has held key...

ELECTRONIC MUSICIAN PRESENTS THE RECORDING SECRETS BEHIND 50 GREAT ALBUMSAuthor: Kylee Swenson GordonISBN-10: 1617130419ISBN-13: 9781617130410Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2012Pages: 242Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d

A science nerd with no knowledge of popular music plunges into the dark underbelly of science and fame where new superstars are made and embarks on a hunt for the gods inside of you and me. In the process, he helps build or sustain...

The Enterprising Musician's Legal Toolkit is a guide for navigating the foundational decisions to effectively launch and successfully operate a creative enterprise. Using accessible language, the book demystifies business and legal jargon and empowers entrepreneurial musicians through step-by-step instructions. Expanding upon The Enterprising Musician's...

Popular Music in the Post-Digital Age explores the relationship between macro environmental factors, such as politics, economics, culture and technology, captured by terms such as 'post-digital' and 'post-internet'. It also discusses the creation, monetisation and consumption of music and what changes in the music...

[Chertkow and Feehan] are the ideal mentors for aspiring indie musicians who want to navigate an ever-changing music industry. -Billboard Magazine Newly revised and expanded, the acclaimed handbook for musicians looking to write, record, and promote without a label More musicians are recording, distributing,...

The Musician's Business and Legal Guide provides vital information to help demystify the music business and the complex body of law that shapes it. This book answers such questions as how to protect name and copyright; what is and is not legal about sampling;...

Companies and agencies spend vast amounts of money to advertise and brand products and music has been an important part of this. This book assesses how from selecting sound and music for individual products and adverts many large companies have moved to develop a...

Want to get your music heard by millions of people world-wide, and make a great living in the process? The traditional music industry has been in a rapid decline since the early 2000's, and these days, listeners expect your music to be free. So,...

Hustling, Music, and Money...Generations of Americans have grown up with Hip-Hop, but the genre never gets the respect it deserves in business.Hip-Hop artists and entrepreneurs are famous for working their way from the bottom to the top. Their beginnings in pimping, slinging, and performing...

This companion workbook to God and Gigs: Succeed as a Musician without Sacrificing your Faith provides in-depth questions, reflective exercises and action steps that will help you strenghten your faith, improve your career and enhance your most treasured relationships. By using this workbook and...

Build Your Music Career From Scratch This book contains steps to becoming a successful performing and recording artist. Whether you are just starting your journey or have been building your career for years, this book has invaluable information that will help. What sets this...

Digital PR thought leader Ariel Hyatt's Cyber PR for Musicians is an accessible, effective, and empowering guide to online marketing success. In her 18 years in PR, Ariel Hyatt has changed the landscape of how musicians build a successful marketable profile. With her latest...

Working in the Music Industry is an invaluable collection of straightforward advice on preparing for and entering careers in the music business. Author Edgar Struble draws upon his extensive experience as a performer, music director, and producer in presenting the myriad opportunities available in...

Author: Bob BakerISBN-10: 0971483833ISBN-13: 9780971483835Publisher: Bob BakerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2006Pages: 232Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53d

The nuts and bolts of how the business of music is conducted is explained here. The author discusses such topics as revenue streams, copyrights and recording sessions. (Music)Author: Larry E. WacholtzISBN-10: 0965234118ISBN-13: 9780965234115Publisher: Thumbs Up PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2001Pages: 264Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.86lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w...

Get the inside scoop on breaking into the music industry from the bassist of MEGADETH, David Ellefson.Author: David EllefsonISBN-10: 087930460XISBN-13: 9780879304607Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/1997Pages: 148Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 9.22h x 6.08w x 0.40d

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...

In 1959, twenty-nine-year-old Berry Gordy, who had already given up on his dream to be a champion boxer, borrowed eight hundred dollars from his family and started a record company. A run-down bungalow sandwiched between a funeral home and a beauty shop in a...

In 1999, when Napster made music available free online, the music industry found itself in a fight for its life. A decade later, the most important and misunderstood story--and the one with the greatest implications for both music lovers and media companies--is how the...

Copiously researched and documented, Hit Men is the highly controversial portrait of the pop music industry in all its wild, ruthless glory: the insatiable greed and ambition; the enormous egos; the fierce struggles for profits and power; the vendettas, rivalries, shakedowns, and payoffs. Chronicling...

Are you a talented performer? Would you like to forge a successful career in the music industry? Do you want to earn the money and receive the accolades that you deserve? Music, Money and You... Managing the Business will put you on the road...

When I thought about writing a book about being a working musician, a few things went through my mind. Who am I to write a book on this subject? Am I really an expert on this? I spoke with more and more people who...

The Must-Have Guide for Breaking into the Music Business Completely revised and updated for the twenty-first century, The Music Business provides essential career advice and information on how to get started and advance in all areas of the music industry--from an author who's had...

The Gramophone Company and The Columbia Phonograph Company merged in 1931 to become EMI: the Apple of its day. Organized chronologically, this richly illustrated resource tells the incredible story of the development of sound recording throughout the acoustic era (1877-1925), the electrical era (1925-45),...

A tour-de-force history of Jews, blues, and the birth of a new industry. On the south side of Chicago in the late 1940s, two immigrants, one a Jew born in Russia, the other a black blues singer from Mississippi met and changed the course...

Concert Sound and Lighting Systems provides comprehensive coverage of equipment and setup procedures for touring concert systems. The new edition will cover the new equipment now available and discuss other venues where the skills and technology are being used. This new edition incorporates the...

In The History of Music Production, Richard James Burgess draws on his experience as a producer, musician, and author. Beginning in 1860 with the first known recording of an acoustic sound and moving forward chronologically, Burgess charts the highs and lows of the industry...