The Music Business and Recording Industry: Delivering Music in the 21st Century

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The Music Business and Recording Industry is a comprehensive music business textbook focused on the three income streams in the music industry: music publishing, live entertainment, and recordings. The book provides a sound foundation for understanding key issues, while presenting the latest research in the field. It covers the changes in the industry brought about by the digital age, such as changing methods of distributing and accessing music and new approaches in marketing with the Internet and mobile applications. New developments in copyright law are also examined, along with the global and regional differences in the music business.

 

Contents

1 The Entertainment Industry and the Music Business
1
2 Understanding the Music and Recording Business
29
3 Copyright Basics in the Music Business
51
4 Music Copyrights
75
5 Sound Recording Copyrights P
93
The First Stream
111
The Second Stream
143
The Main Stream
169
10 The Production Function
213
Product and Price
229
Promotion and Place
263
13 The Global Music and Recording Business
291
Glossary
317
Internet Resources
347
Notes
353
Index
361

9 The AR Function
193

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