Music Money and Success: The Insiders's Guide to Making Money in the Music Business 3rd Edition - Softcover

Brabec, Jeffrey; Brabec, Todd; Brabec, Jerry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0825672821 ISBN 13: 9780825672828

Publisher: Schirmer Trade Books, 2002

Synopsis

...reveals the secrets of the music business that have made fortunes for the superstars...a must have for every songwriter, performer, and musician...required reading for every music lawyer, manager, agent, producer and publisher

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About the Author

Todd Brabec is Executive Vice President and Director of Membership for the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), the world’s largest performing rights organization. He is in charge of all of the Society’s membership operations throughout the world including over 100,000 U.S. composers, lyricists and music publishers, hundreds of thousands of affiliated writers and publishers worldwide and oversees offices in New York, Los Angeles, Nashville, London, Miami, Chicago, Atlanta, and Puerto Rico.

Jeff Brabec is Vice President of Business Affairs for the Chrysalis Music Group where he specializes in evaluating, analyzing, and negotiating music publishing acquisitions. He has negotiated over 1,000 movie, television, video, new technology, and advertising commercial agreements and hundreds of publishing agreements for chart writers / recording artists. Brabec is contributing editor to the Entertainment Law & Finance Magazine.

The Brabecs are winners of the Deems Taylor Award for excellence in music journalism. They are former recording artists, as well as entertainment lawyers and are graduates of the New York University School of Law. They are adjunct professors at the USC Thornton School of Music/Music Industry Department where they teach the business of publishing, motion pictures, television and recording. They both lecture extensively at universities, conventions, conferences, seminars, law firms, management firms, songwriter associations, business and law schools, and ad agencies on all aspects of the business and money side of music.

Review

An essential guide for any composer, songwriter, or professional in the film and television music industry. -- John Williams, Academy Award-winning composer

Guided tour of the revenue streams flowing through the music business — it teaches you how to survive the rapids. -- American Songwriter

How Not To Get Screwed By the Music Industry. You must not live without this book. -- Vibe

It uncomplicates complicated matters so well. -- Irv Lichtman, Billboard

Must have book on the music industry. A lifesaver. -- Society of Composers and Lyricists

About this edition

• Publisher: Schirmer Trade Books
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0825672821
• ISBN 13: 9780825672828
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 435