The Music Business

The Must-Have Guide for Breaking

into the Music Business Completely revised and updated for the twenty-first century, The Music Business provides essential career advice and information on how to get started and advance in all areas of the music industry--from an author who's had careers in music as an artist and professor for more than two decades. This comprehensive volume gives you guidance and information on: - Starting your music career

- The ins and outs of recording contracts

- Record producing and music engineering

- The distribution and sale of records

- The Internet and MP3s, and their effects on the music industry

- The latest computer programs

- Copyright law

- Composing music and songwriting

- Music education

- The international music industry

- And much more . . . The Music Business is an indispensable reference for anyone who wants to begin a career in any of the industry's facets, as well as an invaluable aid to professional and would-be professional musicians alike.