This Business of Urban Music: A Practical Guide to Achieving Success in the Industry, from Gospel to Funk to R &B to Hip-HopThe first reference book all about the business side of gospel and urban music. Hip-hop and R&B hold 25 percent of the consumer music market. Another 20 percent is held by religious (gospel and Christian) music, soul, disco, dance, and jazz. Here’s the first reference book to offer sound business and legal advice specifically tailored to these areas of the music industry. Securing a record deal, starting a label, publishing music, marketing and promoting—this is the information that today’s musicians need. With insightful examples, quotes, and anecdotes from dozens of top artists and executives, This Business of Urban Music is entertaining as well as informative. Author James J. Walker, Jr., is a leading entertainment lawyer, representing such well-known clients as Cole, Jamie Foxx, DMX, and many others. Now he brings his years of professional expertise in litigation, business, intellectual property, and corporate law to This Business of Urban Music—at a price every aspiring musician can afford. |
Contents
Understanding the Roles and Functions | |
Starting a Label A Few Preliminary Points | |
Selecting an Entity A Corporation Partnership or | |
Signing Artists to Your Label Production Company | |
Trademarking the Name Logo and Intellectual | |
Distribution for the Label Taking It to the Streets | |
Bring the Noise Building a Studio | |
The Writer as Publisher SelfPublisher | |
Mechanical Licenses and Administration | |
Synchronization License Music and Movies | |
Amazing Grace Public Domain and Gospel Music | |
MARKETING AND OTHER HELPFUL TIPS | |
Marketing Urban Music | |
Making the Video | |
Touring and Merchandising | |
Final Thoughts on Running and Maintaining a Record | |
More than a Melody Understanding Copyright | |
Joining a Performance Rights Society BMI ASCAP | |
A Thriller Copyright Administration and Splits with | |
The LOX vs P Diddy Statutory Rate vs Three | |
Songwriter Contracts and Publishing Deals What Are They? | |
Technology and the Internet A Brief Overview of Popular Urban and Gospel Internet Sites | |
Organizations Conferences and Conventions in Urban and Gospel Music | |
A Few Closing Thoughts ThankYous and ShoutOuts | |
Valuable Resources | |
Key Publishing Terminology | |
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