ABSTRACT

For courses in Overview of the Music Industry, Copyright and Publishing, Recording and Merchandising: Major and Independent Levels, Performing and Marketing Your Music, and Managers and Agents. Definitive in scope and written specifically for musicians and songwriters by top professionals currently working in the industry, this text demystifies the music business and the indecipherable body of law which shapes it, and provides substantive information on actual practices-with clause-by-clause commentaries on all major contracts in the industry.

chapter |56 pages

GETTING STARTED: MUSIC AS A BUSINESS

chapter |68 pages

PROTECTING YOUR COMPOSITIONS

chapter |74 pages

MUSIC PUBLISHING

chapter |72 pages

MANAGERS, AGENTS AND UNIONS

chapter |146 pages

RECORDING

chapter |8 pages

Resources

chapter |10 pages

Contributors