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  • The Billboard Guide to Writing and Producing Songs that Sell

    How to Create Hits in Today's Music Industry

    by Eric Beall ...
    The Billboard Guide to Writing and Producing Songs that Sell unveils the secrets to climbing the charts and reaching success in today’s ultracompetitive music industry. Eric Beall supplies his firsthand knowledge of today’s record business, as well as interviews with successful writers, producers, and executives from the worlds of pop, hip-hop, country, adult contemporary, and R&B. The result: a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD $11.99 USD

  • This Business of Artist Management

    The Standard Reference to All Phases of Managing a Musician's Career from Both the Artist's and Manager's Point of View

    This authoritative reference on artist management in the music industry is the standard for all phases of managing a musician's career from both the artist's and manager's point of view. This substantially updated edition covers the major changes that have transformed the business world and music industry over the past six years. Particular emphasis is given to the impact of the Internet, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD $4.99 USD

  • VJ

    The Unplugged Adventures of MTV's First Wave

    **In this “**highly entertaining snapshot of a wild-frontier moment in pop culture” (Rolling Stone), discover the wild and explosive true story of the early years of MTV directly from the original VJs.Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, and Martha Quinn (along with the late J. J. Jackson) had front-row seats to a cultural revolution—and the hijinks of pop music icons like Adam Ant, Cyndi ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Marketing the Arts

    An Introduction

    by Anthony Rhine ...
    With limited budgets and resources, arts ventures are struggling to employ modern marketing methods to promote their events. Marketing the Arts introduces students, young professionals, and even seasoned veterans to new and refined marketing approaches—by drawing on marketing theory as it is used by huge multi-nationals, exploring such theories in the context of creative ventures generally, and ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Personal Finance for Musicians

    Series series Music Pro Guides
    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. Most musicians will admit they know little about personal finance.In Personal Finance for Musicians, music industry and finance experts Bobby Borg and Britt Hatsey coach you on how to:Make and save moneyIncrease your credit ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Marketing Strategy for the Creative and Cultural Industries

    by Bonita Kolb ...
    Series series Discovering the Creative Industries
    Developing and executing marketing strategies is a vital aspect of any business and few books currently cover this with relation to creative industries. This textbook provides students and managers in the creative industries with a solid grounding in how to maximize the impact of their marketing efforts across a range of business types in the creative and cultural industries.The author, an ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Hit Men

    Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business

    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 the evolution of America's largest music labels from the Tin Pan Alley days to the present day, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Pop Song Piracy

    Disobedient Music Distribution since 1929

    The music industry’s ongoing battle against digital piracy is just the latest skirmish in a long conflict over who has the right to distribute music. Starting with music publishers’ efforts to stamp out bootleg compilations of lyric sheets in 1929, Barry Kernfeld’s Pop Song Piracy details nearly a century of disobedient music distribution from song sheets to MP3s.In the 1940s and ’50s, Kernfeld ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Business Basics for Musicians

    The Complete Handbook from Start to Success

    by Bobby Borg ...
    Series series Music Pro Guides
    Today, when artists are empowered to take greater control of their careers and earnings, the need for musicians to understand the business of music has never been greater. In a digital age overflowing with confusing and ever-changing information, musicians need trusted business advice from a veteran artist who can break down the basics in language they understand. Written by a professional ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Motown

    Music, Money, Sex, and Power

    by Gerald Posner ...
    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 poor Detroit neighborhood served as his headquarters. The building’s entrance was adorned with a large sign that improbably boasted ... Read more

    $9.99 USD $8.99 USD

  • C'mon, Get Happy . . .

    Fear and Loathing on the Partridge Family Bus

    This memoir by David Cassidy tells the real story behind his phenomenal ’70s stardom—and the sadness that shadowed it. Includes photos and a new afterword.Barely out of his teens, David Cassidy landed a role on a new sitcom about a musical family that toured in a psychedelic bus. The critics blasted it—but TV viewers loved it! And the young female audience especially loved Keith Partridge. Not ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • This Business of Concert Promotion and Touring

    A Practical Guide to Creating, Selling, Organizing, and Staging Concerts

    The only book that looks at the business of concert promotion. Concerts are part art, part party—and a big part business. This Business of Concert Promotion and Touring is the first to focus on that all-important business aspect, from creating a show, to selling a show, to organizing the show, to staging the show. Working with venues, personnel, booking, promoting, marketing, publicity, public ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • La Administración Eficaz del Tiempo

    Aumenta tu productividad y aprende cómo organizar mejor tu tiempo

    ¿Buscabas un buen libro sobre gestión del tiempo para mejorar tu productividad personal y ser efectivo en la administración de tus proyectos?En este libro aprenderás estrategias ya probadas, simples pero efectivas para administrar tu valioso tiempo.El autor te mostrará cómo realizar tus tareas de una manera más eficiente, con el fin de que puedas ser más efectivo y productivo en todas tus ... Read more

    $3.11 USD

  • How Music Got Free

    A Story of Obsession and Invention

    by Stephen Witt ...
    **Soon to be a Paramount+ documentary series, narrated by Method Man and produced by Marshall Mathers, LeBron James, and moreOne of Billboard’s 100 Greatest Music Books of All TimeFinalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, and the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the YearA New York Times Editors’ ChoiceONE OF THE YEAR'S BEST BOOKS: The Washington ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $12.99 USD

  • Start and Run Your Own Record Label, Third Edition

    Winning Marketing Strategies for Today's Music Industry

    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 music-business consultant Daylle Deanna Schwartz (who started and ran her own label) has rewritten and expanded her classic, Start & Run ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Music Marketing for the DIY Musician

    Creating and Executing a Plan of Attack on a Low Budget

    by Bobby Borg ...
    Series series Music Pro Guides
    Do it yourself and succeed! More and more artists are taking advantage of new technologies to try and build successful careers. But in this expanding competitive marketplace, serious do-it-yourself musicians need structured advice more than ever. In Music Marketing for the DIY Musician, veteran musician and industry insider Bobby Borg presents a strategic, step-by-step guide to producing a fully ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Make Your Own Rules

    Stories and Hard-Earned Advice from a Creator in the Digital Age

    by Andrew Huang ...
    USA TODAY BestsellerYouTube sensation Andrew Huang offers practical tips and hard-won advice for creatives seeking financial stability while staying authentic.How does a musician with acute hearing loss, a refusal to perform live, and no industry connections carve a path to millions of followers and lucrative royalty checks? In Make Your Own Rules, Andrew Huang shares stories from his two decades ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Lessons from a Street-Wise Professor

    What You Won't Learn at Most Music Schools

    Lessons from a Streetwise Professor: What You Won’t Learn at Most Music Schools was first published in 2011. It’s a book that discusses contemporary issues in the real world of music, and the fact is, much has changed since then. An update was needed, so voilà—the second addition. For this edition, I asked Steve Danyew to contribute. He’s a former colleague at the Eastman School, and as a young ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • DIY Music Marketing Basics

    by Martyn Wilson ...
    Are you struggling to grow an audience? Is it impossible to make people pay for your music?This book is for musicians like you. Martyn Wilson has years of experience as a DIY musician, working with industry professionals in multiple roles. In this book, he introduces the basic ideas behind music marketing on a budget in 2016/17.Learn how to grow your audience, step by step, creating a relationship ... Read more

    Free

  • Here Come the Regulars

    How to Run a Record Label on a Shoestring Budget

    by Ian Anderson ...
    Ian Anderson started recording music when he was thirteen and launched his own successful label, Afternoon Records, in 2003, when he was just eighteen. Now this wunderkind of the indie music scene has written the ultimate guide for all those aspiring to a career in the record industry.Here Come the Regulars covers territory ranging from a label's image to its budget, focusing on the importance of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Music, Money and Success

    The Insider's Guide to Making Money in the Music Industry. Millions dream of attaining glamour and wealth through music. This book reveals the secrets of the music business that have made fortunes for the superstars. A must-have for every songwriter, performer and musician. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Birth of Loud

    Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock 'n' Roll

    by Ian S. Port ...
    “A hot-rod joy ride through mid-20th-century American history” (The New York Times Book Review), this one-of-a-kind narrative masterfully recreates the rivalry between the two men who innovated the electric guitar’s amplified sound—Leo Fender and Les Paul—and their intense competition to convince rock stars like the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and Eric Clapton to play the instruments they built.In the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Big Payback

    The History of the Business of Hip-Hop

    by Dan Charnas ...
    **“There has never been a better book about hip-hop…a record-biz portrait that jumps off the page.”—A.V. ClubThe perfect read for music lovers and business aficionados alike, The Big Payback reveals the secret histories of the early long-shot successes of Sugar Hill Records and Grandmaster Flash, Run DMC’s crossover breakthrough on MTV, the marketing of gangsta rap, and the rise of artist ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Exit Stage Left

    The curious afterlife of pop stars

    by Nick Duerden ...
    **A SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN & TELEGRAPH MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022****INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE MONTH****GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE DAY****FINANCIAL TIMES 'BEST SUMMER BOOKS 2022' PICK**'Incredibly moving.' - Guardian'Entertaining.' - Telegraph'Most books about pop stars focus on the way we turn average human beings into dem... ... Read more

    $2.99 USD