The Ultimate Survival Guide to the New Music Industry: Handbook for Hell

ISBN-10: 1580650481
ISBN-13: 9781580650489
Category: Music / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal
Pages: 355
Language: English
Published: 2004
Publisher: Lone Eagle Pub.
Author: Justin Goldberg

Description

Using his sense of humour and unbelievable industry anecdotes ranging from Jewel and Celine Dion to Jeff Buckley, author Justin Goldberg delivers the truth about today's deeply tangled music business and tells musicians, songwriters and anyone interested in music about the way it really works 'behind the music'. The book features dozens of exclusive, insider interviews with today's top label and music publishing company presidents, A&R executives, attorneys, publicists, managers, agents, music supervisors, composers and legendary artists and songwriters such as Diane Warren, Willie Nelson, Bob Weir and Martin Sexton. The interviews each target key issues for discussion and instruction, providing the reader with a step-by-step guide to creating a successful career in the industry. System CD-ROM (Mac and PC) providing hundreds of pages of business forms designed to protect the interests of songwriters, performers and independent labels. companies, radio stations, music publications and other needed industry professionals.

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