1st Edition

Music Business: The Key Concepts

By Richard Strasser Copyright 2010
    208 Pages
    by Routledge

    208 Pages
    by Routledge

    Music Business: The Key Concepts is a comprehensive guide to the terminology commonly used in the music business today. It embraces definitions from a number of relevant fields, including:

    • general business
    • marketing
    • e-commerce
    • intellectual property law
    • economics
    • entrepreneurship

    In an accessible A-Z format and fully cross-referenced throughout, this book is essential reading for music business students as well as those interested in the music industry.

    Advance; Advertising; Agent; Airplay; Audio Engineer; Black Box Income; Buenos Aires Convention; Controlled Composition; Copyright; Cross Collateralization; Demo; Distribution; Federal Trade Commission (FTC); Four Walling; Interpolation; Minimum Advertised Price (MAP); Ofcom; Peer-to-Peer Network (P2P); Piracy; Royalty; SoundScan; Statutory Rate

    Biography

    Richard Strasser is Assistant Professor in the Department of Music at Northeastern University. He has written several articles on the music business and is co-author with John Shirley of The Savvy Studio Owner (2005).

    "it is a handy reference book for anyone involved or interested in the business aspect of the music industry..." -CHOICE