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Makng A Livng in Your Local Music Market: Realizing Your Marketing Potential - Softcover

Weissman, Dick

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Synopsis

You can survive happily as a musician in your local music market. This book shows you how to expand and develop your skills as a musician and a composer right in your own backyard. Making a Living in Your Local Music Market explores topics relevant to musicians of every level: Why should a band have an agreement? How can you determine whether a personal manager is right for you? Are contests worth entering? What trade papers are the most useful? Why copyright your songs? Also covers: * Developing and packaging your artistic skills in the marketplace * Dealing with contractors, unions, club owners, agents, etc. * Producing your own recordings * Planning your future in music * Music and the Internet * Artist-operated record companies * The advantages and disadvantages of independent and major record labels * Grant opportunities for musicians and how to access them * College music business programs * Seminars and trade shows * Detailed coverage of regional music markets, including Austin, Atlanta, Denver, Miami, Seattle, and Portland, Oregon.

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About the Author

Dick Weissman is Associate Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado at Denver and has been involved with the North American folk revival as a musician, performer, composer and scholar. He is the author of many critically acclaimed books about American roots music and the music industry, including The Folk Music Sourcebook (1989), which won the Deems Taylor ASCAP Music Critics Award;
The Music Business 5/e (2003), which sold over 100,000 copies; Navigating the Music Industry (2003); Blues: The Basics (2004); Understanding the Music Business (2009); and Songwriting: The Words, the Music, and the Money (2010).

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