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Title: All You Need to Know About the Music Business : Revised and Updated for the 21st Century by Donald S. Passman ISBN: 0-684-87064-9 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 03 October, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.76 (38 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: #2 on my Required Reading list for Music Biz Success
Comment: This book used to be at #1 on my required reading list until I recently read "Confessions Of A Record Producer" by Moses Avalon (also available here on Amazon.Com). The two books compliment each other very well, and they really should be tied for #1 on my list. This book is written by a music biz attorney, Donald Passman, but it doesn't read like it was written by an attorney. Easy enough to read and follow that you will want to read the whole book. I won't bother detailing what the book talks about, since you can find that through the description. I will say that it is very comprehensive and doesn't leave anything out. It's a practical guide to how the music business works that no musician should be without. Combine this with "Confessions Of a Record Producer" to learn all about the bad side of the biz, and you will have a very strong foundation to get you started!
Rating: 5
Summary: COCKY TITLE DELIVERS WHAT IT PROMISES
Comment: Author Passman has created something of a journalistic feat: his book is an attorney's look at the mechanisms of the music industry-usually not a particularly fascinating subject-yet he's made it great fun to read. An LA-based music attorney since the seventies, Passman is boyishly enthusiastic about his subject, and says the book is an outgrowth of his professional need to explain the basic workings of the industry to his artist clients. Though he says he is not writing technically (as if for fellow attorneys), he has nevertheless included virtually all of the checkpoints, or "deal points," that come up in contract negotiations today. The point of view being marketed here is that it pays to be an informed artist or songwriter, even if you think you don't care that much about the business side. Passman's "blurbs," or endorsements, are almost overkill: the likes of artist Don Henley, producer Quincy Jones, and longtime Warner Communications Chairman Mo Ostin. In the light of all this prestige (even the publisher, Prentice Hall, is an old-guard New York house), I couldn't believe that beneath Joe Smith's back- cover endorsement, Capitol-EMI, of which Smith was chair, was misspelled as "Capital." Minor flaw, all things considered, and happily not a predictor of sloppy work inside. Passman is an excellent choice for either personal learning or university-level classroom study. On first hearing, the title seems a bit arrogant, but Passman just about does cover it all. The 1994 second edition is virtually identical to the first, except for a welcome expansion of the opening "First Steps" section, and a detailed explanation of legislation the entire music industry lobbied long and hard to achieve: the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 (the "home taping" legislation). Passman explains the projected flow of revenues from this act back into the music industry: one third to songwriters and publishers, and two thirds to record companies. Among the nineties books on the business of the music industry, this is one of the very best. Ron Simpson, School of Music, Brigham Young University. Author of MASTERING THE MUSIC BUSINESS.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Best Book
Comment: This book is the best. It's very easy to read even if english isn's your mother language. Very interesting and iclude All you need to know to know about Music Business.
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Title: Start and Run Your Own Record Label by Daylle Deanna Schwartz ISBN: 0823079244 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns Pub. Date: December, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: This Business of Music: The Definitive Guide to the Music Industry (THIS BUSINESS OF MUSIC) by M. William Krasilovsky, Sidney Schemel, John M. Gross, Sidney Shemel ISBN: 0823077284 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Confessions of a Record Producer, 2 Ed: How to Survive the Scams and Shams of the Music Business by Moses Avalon ISBN: 0879306602 Publisher: Backbeat Books Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Legal Aspects of the Music Industry: An Insider's View by Richard Schulenberg ISBN: 0823083276 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns Pub. Date: February, 1999 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: What They'll Never Tell You About the Music Business: The Myths, Secrets, Lies (& a Few Truths) by Peter M. Thall ISBN: 0823084396 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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