The future of music: manifesto for the digital music revolution

David Kusek, Gerd Leonhard, Susan Gedutis Lindsay

Berklee Press, Jan 1, 2005 - Business & Economics - 193 pages

For the next generation of players and downloaders, a provocative scenario from a music industry think tank. From the Music Research Institute at Berklee College of Music comes a manifesto for the ongoing music revolution. Today, the record companies may be hurting but the music-making business is booming, using non-traditional digital methods and distribution models. This book explains why we got where we are and where we are heading. For the iPod, downloading market, this book will explain new ways of discovering music, new ways of acquiring it and how technology trends will make music "flow like water," benefiting the people who love music and make music.

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Review: The Future of Music: Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution

User Review  - Daniel Lomax - Goodreads

Tells roughly the same story as Sonic Boom, The Recording Industry, The Future of the Music Business and Free Culture, and is the best written of all of them. Less discussion of legal ambiguities and ...

Review: The Future of Music: Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution

User Review  - Christina Wilder - Goodreads

The Future of Music : Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution begins with a plausible scenario; everyday life filled with music as if it were, as the authors (David Kusek and Gerd Leonhard ...

Contents

• How Technology Will Rewire the Music Business: 139
• Megatrends that Will Impact the Future of Music: 160
• Onto the Future: 174

About the author

Kusek is a musician who has been inventing the future of music for the past twenty-five years. Today, Dave innovates at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Mass.

Leonhard is a respected music futurist and oft-quoted visionary, a well-known music industry executive and music business entrepreneur, a sought-after strategic adviser and music industry super-node -- and still a performer (guitar), writer, and producer.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The future of music: manifesto for the digital music revolution; Berklee Press Series
• Authors: David Kusek, Gerd Leonhard, Susan Gedutis Lindsay
• Editor: Susan Gedutis Lindsay
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Berklee Press, 2005
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: May 21, 2010
• ISBN: 0876390599, 9780876390597
• Length: 193 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / Commerce; Music / Business Aspects; Music / General; Music / Instruction & Study / General; Music / Recording & Reproduction; Music trade; Sound recording industry