Business Aspects category: 650 books
by Sara Peacock
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Musicians often seek jobs in performing or teaching, but in addition there are a wealth of exciting opportunities in the music industry that music students tend to know very little about.
Careers In Music explores what is available and offers insights into how different skills and personalities...
Getting the Money
A Step-By-Step Guide for Writing Business Plans for Film
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Filmmakers interested in financing their own films have to start with a business plan. Few know how to put one together. Getting the Money gives a relaxed, step-by-step approach on how to do so. Of particular use are the financial sections where, for the
by Ren
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
You DO NOT need to be a star to Make Money in Music!
Yes, you heard right, but let’s say it again. Louder, just to make sure. YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE A STAR TO MAKE MONEY IN MUSIC! The world is full of successful working musicians - a silent majority who make very good incomes having turned...
The Entrepreneurial Muse
Inspiring Your Career in Classical Music
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
The Entrepreneurial Muse: Inspiring your Career in Classical Music explores principles of entrepreneurship in a classical music setting, inspiring students, emerging professionals, and educators alike to gain the broader perspective and strategic understanding required to negotiate the complex and...
The Unstarving Musician’s Guide to Getting Paid Gigs
How to Get Booked and Paid What You’re Worth, Over and Over Again!
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Are you struggling to get gigs that pay, to get the attention of venues, or to effectively market yourself and your music?
Drummer vocalist Roberto R Hernandez (aka Robonzo) shares the methods and tactics he’s used to keep himself and his bands consistently booked and well compensated for...
Development through Culture
Cultural Policy and Arts Management in the German Development Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Master's Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject Art - Arts Management, grade: 10.0 out of 10.0, University of València (DCADHA), course: Gestión Cultural, language: English, abstract: For at least three decades the topic of culture has been one of the central elements of development cooperation...
by Brittany Bexton
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2015
"The Venue Book" is essentially the encyclopedia of country music venues. It boasts contact information for more than 3,500 venues nationwide. "The Venue Book" has venue listings for every state in the US, and D.C. Many venues have in depth information including capacity, a direct...
They Told Me Not to Take that Job
Tumult, Betrayal, Heroics, and the Transformation of Lincoln Center
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Reynold Levy joined Lincoln Center in 2002. When he did so America's leading arts venue was routinely described in terms like this:
Behind the scenes, however, Lincoln Center is a community in deep distress, riven by conflict over a grandiose 1 billion redevelopment plan
instead of uniting...
The Akron Sound
The Heyday of the Midwest's Punk Capital
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Music made in Akron symbolized an attitude more so than a singular sound. Crafted by kids hell-bent on not following their parents into the rubber plants, the music was an intentional antithesis of Top 40 radio. Call it punk or call it new wave, but in a short few years, major labels signed Chrissie...
Follow the Music
The Life and High Times of Elektra Records in the Great Years of American Pop Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Jac Holzman started his own record company when he was all of nineteen. His total assets amounted to a handful of dollars, a brain fizzing with ideas, and a heart pumping with naive late-teenage hope. He christened his label Elektra.
Twenty years later, Jac had brought five...
Letters to a Young Artist
Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
From the most exciting individual in American theater” (Newsweek), here is Anna Deavere Smith’s brass tacks advice to aspiring artists of all stripes. In vividly anecdotal letters to the young BZ, she addresses the full spectrum of issues that people starting out will face: from questions of confidence,...
by John Gregory Dunne
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
In 1967, John Gregory Dunne asked for unlimited access to the inner workings of Twentieth Century Fox. Miraculously, he got it. For one year Dunne went everywhere there was to go and talked to everyone worth talking to within the studio. He tracked every step of the creation of pictures like "Dr....
The Big Picture
The New Logic of Money and Power in Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2005
During the heyday of the studio system spanning the 1930s, ‘40s, and ‘50s, virtually all the American motion picture industry’s money, power, and prestige came from a single activity: selling tickets at the box office. Today, the movie business is just a small, highly visible outpost in a media...
by Martyn Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2016
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...