Inside the Music Business (Blueprint)

✍ Scribed by Tony Barrow

• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 250
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is a comprehensive guide to a career in the music industry. Offering advice as to how to get into the business, it explains the main features of a wide range of jobs, such as management, production, promotion and merchandise through to the working lives of recording artists and session musicians.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 13
Introduction......Page 14
Getting inside the music business......Page 25
The record company......Page 32
Artist management......Page 45
The publisher......Page 57
The negotiators......Page 69
The AR person......Page 76
The producer......Page 85
Marketing a release......Page 95
Video......Page 104
Press and public relations......Page 116
Music and the media......Page 130
The concert promoter......Page 145
The merchandisers......Page 154
The fan club......Page 162
The artist......Page 171
The songwriter......Page 180
The session player......Page 189
On the road......Page 199
The star......Page 209
The summing up......Page 218
Music industry addresses......Page 223
Music industry courses in the UK......Page 235
Index......Page 242