The Music Business: Career Opportunities and Self-Defense

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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.

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DICK WEISSMAN is a professional musician, recording artist, composer, and record producer. He currently teaches short classes and seminars, and he consults for the University of Denver, Scott-Anderson Associates in Kingston, Jamaica, the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, and various other organizations. He is also the author of Songwriting- The Words, the Music, and the Money and Making a Living in Your Local Music Market. He lives in Astoria, Oregon.