Music Is Your Business: The Musician's FourFront Strategy for Success - Softcover

Christopher Knab; Bartley F. Day

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9780974342030: Music Is Your Business: The Musician's FourFront Strategy for Success

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ISBN 10: 0974342033 ISBN 13: 9780974342030

Publisher: FourFront Media and Music, 2007

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This book takes the mystery out of the music business! "Music Is Your Business" tells you who does what in the music industry. Music industry veteran Christopher Knab's honest, no-nonsense information will empower you to market and promote your music, whether you're an experienced performer or just starting out. Learn how to attract distributors, get radio airplay, negotiate offers, and create a demand for your music with topics like Con Jobs: Watch Out for the Flim Flam Man, 10 Reasons Why Musicians Fail (and How Not To), What A&R Reps Do, and Online Music Retailing. Straight to the point legal chapters by entertainment law attorney Bartley F. Day include Filing Copyright Applications, Trademarking Band Names, and Making Sense of Recording Industry Contracts. A sample distributor one-sheet, band tour and work schedule, band bio, and more! Newly revised, illustrated, indexed, and 100 pages longer. "Music Is Your Business" is essential for independent musicians and record labels.

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About the Author:

Christopher Knab is a music business consultant with over three decades of experience; in music retail (owner, Aquarius Records-San Francisco), radio (station manager, 90.3 FM Seattle), and record label ownership (415/Columbia Records). A member of the faculty of the Art Institute of Seattle for 18 years, he taught music business courses in the Audio Production program. His pioneering and popular website fourfrontmusic.com, has been a respected resource for music business articles and podcasts since 1995. Bartley F. Day is an entertainment attorney with over 20 years of music business experience. He divides his time between Los Angeles, where he is the Vice-President of Legal and Business Affairs for the music publishing company Media Creature Music, and Portland, Oregon where he has an entertainment law practice focused on music law. In addition he is the outside music counsel for Vivendi Universal Games. He also represents film and TV production companies, authors and visual artists.

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