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The music industry / by Berlatsky, Noah.;
Presents essays with opposing viewpoints on issues surrounding the music industry.Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-165) and index.What copyright issues does the music industry face?. File-sharing has weakened copyright -- and helped society / Nate Anderson ; Illegal file sharing hurts musicians and society / IFPI ; Copyright helps artists make a living / Jonathan Newman ; Copyright violations do not hurt artists' income / Ernesto Van Der Sar -- How should the music industry respond to the changing market?. Lower CD prices may increase sales / Ed Christman ; The CD format should be dropped / Miles Raymer ; The new rock-star paradigm / Damian Kulash, Jr. ; The poor economy and higher gas prices are hurting touring / Luciana Lopez ; Independent artists need to explore new marketing and revenue options / Jeff McQuilkin ; Musicians need not spend too much time on online marketing / Cameron Mizell -- What role do record labels play in the twenty-first century?. Major labels must change to stay viable / Adam Frucci ; Major labels can do more for artists than indie labels can / Brent DeFore ; Indie labels are still relevant / Hugh Leask ; New report shows how much record companies are "investing in music" / IFPI ; Behind the music : the real reason why the major labels love Spotify / Helienne Lindvall -- Will changes in the industry hurt music?. The reduced focus on recording is a loss to music / Rick Carnes ; Musicians will continue to record great music / Tim Geigner ; Some artists feel that downloading of single tracks destroys the integrity of an album / Peter Lauria ; Good riddance to albums / Steven Hodson ; The classical music market is collapsing / Michael Johnson ; Contemporary classical music labels are healthy / Joseph Dalton.
Subjects: Music trade.;
© c2012., Greenhaven Press,
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The working musician's handbook for professional success : how to establish your value in the real world / by Hawkins, Kris,1979-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- Establishing Your Value as a Musician -- Finding Your Path -- Finding Work and Networking -- Independent Contractor -- Protecting Your Work -- Types of Performance Gigs and Gig Protocols -- Types of Composing Gigs and Gig Protocols, and Teaching -- Failure and How to Pick Yourself Up -- Managing Your Finances -- Epilogue."A no-nonsense handbook on how to establish value as a professional musician and create a sustainable career in the working world, written by an EMMY-award winning, veteran practitioner"--
Subjects: Music trade;
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Appetite for self-destruction : the spectacular crash of the record industry in the digital age / by Knopper, Steve,1969-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Prologue 1979-1982 : disco crashes the record business, Michael Jackson saves the day, and MTV really saves the day -- 1983-1986 : Jerry Shulman's frisbee : how the compact disc rebuilt the record business -- 1984-1999 : how big spenders got rich in the post-CD boom -- 1998-2001 : The teen-pop bubble : boy bands and Britney make the business bigger than ever--but not for long -- 1998-2001 : A 19-year-old takes down the industry--with the help of tiny music, and a few questionable big music decisions -- 2002-2003 : How Steve Jobs built the iPod, revived his company and took over the music business -- 2003-2007 : Beating up on peer-to-peer services like Kazaa and Grokster fails to save the industry : sales plunge and Tommy Mottola abandons ship -- The future : how can the record labels return to the boom times? Hint : not by stonewalling new high-tech models and locking up the content.Recounts for the first time the epic story of the precipitous rise and fall of the recording industry over the past three decades, when the success of the CD turned the music business into one of the most glamorous, high-profile industries in the world--and the advent of file sharing brought it to its knees. In a fast-paced account full of larger-than-life personalities, journalist Knopper shows that, after the wealth and excess of the '80s and '90s, Sony, Warner, and the other big players brought about their own downfall through years of denial and bad decisions in the face of dramatic advances in technology. Based on interviews with more than two hundred music industry sources--from Warner Music chairman Edgar Bronfman Jr. to renegade Napster creator Shawn Fanning--Knopper is the first to offer such a detailed and sweeping contemporary history of the industry's wild ride.
Subjects: Music trade; Sound recording industry; Compact disc industry;
© c2010., Soft Skull Press,
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Pop music, pop culture / by Rojek, Chris.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-231) and indexes.Why 'pop', not 'popular'? -- The Field. The field of pop music study ; The urban-industrial backbeat ; Theoretical Perspectives. Structuralist approaches ; Agency approaches -- The Mode of Production. Roots ; Corporations and independents ; Artists, managers and audiences -- Technology and media -- Co-operative labour, Inc.What is happening to pop music and pop culture? Synthesizers, samplers and MDI systems have allowed anyone with basic computing skills to make music. Exchange is now automatic and weightless with the result that the High Street record store is dying. MySpace, Twitter and You Tube are now more important publicity venues for new bands than the concert tour routine. Unauthorized consumption in the form of illegal downloading has created a financial crisis in the industry. The old postwar industrial planning model of pop, which centralized control in the hands of major record corporations, and divided the market into neat segments, is dissolving in front of our eyes. This book offers readers a comprehensive guide to understanding pop music today. It provides a clear survey of the field and a description of core concepts. The main theoretical approaches to the analysis of pop are described and critically assessed. The book includes a major investigation of the revolutionary changes in the production, exchange and consumption of pop music that are currently underway.
Subjects: Popular music; Popular culture; Music trade.;
© 2011., Polity Press,
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The big payback : the history of the business of hip-hop / by Charnas, Dan.;
Number runners. Uptown ; Downtown -- Genius of rap. Disco inferno ; Kings from queens -- The beat box. High ; Low -- Hip-hop nation. West side ; East side -- Where hip-hop lives. Color lines ; Street knowledge -- Cops & rappers. Truth ; Consequences -- Keeping it real. Credibility ; Equity -- An American dream. Building ; Selling -- Epilogue: Harlem, November 4, 2008.On this four-decade-long journey from the studios where the first rap records were made to the boardrooms where the big deals were inked, "The Big Payback" tallies the list of who lost and who won along the 40-year road to hip-hop's dominance.
Subjects: Rap (Music); Hip-hop.; Hip-hop; Sound recording industry.; Music trade.;
© c2010., New American Library,
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Losing my virginity : how I survived, had fun, and made a fortune doing business my way / by Branson, Richard.;
Subjects: Branson, Richard.; Businesspeople; Virgin Group.; Airlines.; Music trade.;
© [2011] , c2007., Crown Business,
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Heaven was Detroit : from jazz to hip-hop and beyond / by Liebler, M. L.,editor.; Marsh, Dave,writer of foreword.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-447) and index.
Subjects: Music trade; Sound recording industry;
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Music copyright : an essential guide for the digital age / by Rae, Casey,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Getting familiar with music copyright -- A brief history of music copyright -- Digital music and the evolution of an industry -- Musical works and copyright exclusivities -- Sound recordings and copyright exclusivities -- Copyright enforcement, safe harbors, and fair use -- Copyright registration, metadata, and databases -- Music licensing : PROs, publishing administration, synchronizations, and more -- Final thoughts : music copyright and the big picture -- Appendix: Industry and music creator organizations ; Performing rights and mechanical royalty collectives ; Legislative, regulatory, and rate-setting bodies."With behind-the-scenes anecdotes from the halls of power, real-world case studies, and tips from successful industry players, this book equips readers with the tools they need to navigate the complex world of music copyright, showing how creator, technology, and communities can work together to support a healthier music ecosystem"--
Subjects: Copyright; Copyright; Music trade;
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Pop song piracy : disobedient music distribution since 1929 / by Kernfeld, Barry Dean,1950-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-263) and index.pt. 1. Printed music. Tin Pan Alley's near-perfect distribution system ; Bootlegging song sheets ; The content and uses of song sheets ; Fake books and music photocopying -- pt. 2. Broadcasting. Pirate radio in Northwestern Europe -- pt. 3. Recordings. Illegal copying of phonograph records ; Illegal copying of tapes ; Bootleg albums as unauthorized new releases ; Illegal copying of compact discs ; Song sharing."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 reveals, song sheets were succeeded by fake books, unofficial volumes of melodies and lyrics for popular songs that were a key tool for musicians. Music publishers attempted to wipe out fake books, but after their efforts proved unsuccessful they published their own. Pop Song Piracy shows that this pattern of disobedience, prohibition, and assimilation recurred in each conflict over unauthorized music distribution, from European pirate radio stations to bootlegged live shows. Beneath this pattern, Kernfeld argues, there exists a complex give and take between distribution methods that merely copy existing songs (such as counterfeit CDs) and ones that transform songs into new products (such as file sharing). Ultimately, he contends, it was the music industry's persistent lagging behind in creating innovative products that led to the very piracy it sought to eliminate"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Music trade; Popular music; Sound recording industry; Sound recordings; Copyright; Piracy (Copyright);
© c2011., University of Chicago Press,
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George Frideric Handel : a life with friends / by Harris, Ellen T.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-409), discography (pages 381-387) and index.Introductions : Handel and his friends -- Before London -- Politics, patronage, and pension -- Commerce and trade -- Music at home -- Marriage, wealth, and social status -- Ambition, law, and friendship -- Making and collecting -- Religion and charity -- Sickness and death -- Wills and legacies.During his lifetime, the sounds of Handel's music reached from court to theater, echoed in cathedrals, and filled crowded taverns, but the man himself - known to most as the composer of Messiah - is a bit of a mystery. Though he took meticulous care of his musical manuscripts and even provided for their preservation on his death, very little of an intimate nature survives. One document - Handel's will - offers us a narrow window into his personal life. In it, he remembers not only family and close colleagues but also neighborhood friends. In search of the private man behind the public figure, Ellen T. Harris has spent years tracking down the letters, diaries, personal accounts, legal cases, and other documents connected to these bequests. The result is a tightly woven tapestry of London in the first half of the eighteenth century, one that interlaces vibrant descriptions of Handel's music with stories of loyalty, cunning, and betrayal. With this wholly new approach, Harris has achieved something greater than biography. Layering the interconnecting stories of Handel's friends like the subjects and countersubjects of a fugue, Harris introduces us to an ambitious, shrewd, generous, brilliant, and flawed man, hiding in full view behind his public persona.
Subjects: Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759.; Composers;
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