| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 274 pages) : illustrations |
| Summary |
Allen prepares you for the realities of successfully directing the careers of talented performers in the high-risk, high-reward music business. You will learn to prepare yourself for a career in artist management - and then learn the tools to coach, lead, organize time, manage finances, market an artist, and carve out a successful career path for both yourself and your clients. The book features profiles of artist managers, an exclusive and detailed template for an artist career plan, and samples of major contract sections for artist management and record deals. Updated information including a directory of artist management companies is available at the book's companion website. A peer reviewer for Artist Management for the Music Business proclaimed ".this is going to be an excellent text. It contains many unique insights and lots of valuable information." This is essential reading for managers, students, and artists in the music business. * Key industry insight for both new and experienced artist managers * Exclusive planning and management tools * Successful career strategies for managers and the artists they manage |
| Contents |
Introduction, Considering artist management as a profession; Principles of management for the artist manager; Preparing for a career in management; Lessons in artist management: Colonel Parker to Sharon Osbourne; The artist management contract; Planning: A primer; The artist professional support group; Preparing the artist for publishing and recording; The Revenue Streams; Conducting Business for the Artist; Managing the Business of the Artist; The detailed business plan for the recording artist; Managing the business of the manager; Appendix: Contracts. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-268) and index. |
| Contents |
Principles of management for the artist manager -- Preparing to manage -- The artist : preparing to be managed -- Lessons in artist management : Colonel Parker to Sharon Osbourne -- The artist management contract -- Planning : a primer for the artist manager -- The artist as a business -- Income from live performance -- Income from songwriting -- Income from recording -- Conducting business for the artist -- The artist career plan -- Coaching, leadership and final advice. |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Music trade -- United States.
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Music -- Economic aspects.
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Performing arts -- Vocational guidance.
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Musique -- Industrie -- États-Unis. |
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Musique -- Aspect économique. |
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Arts du spectacle -- Orientation professionnelle. |
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Music -- Economic aspects |
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Music trade |
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Performing arts -- Vocational guidance |
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United States |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Allen, Paul. Artist management for the music business. Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/Focal Press, ©2007 9780240809243 0240809246 (DLC) 2007020282 (OCoLC)132583425 |
| ISBN |
9780080927503 (electronic bk.) |
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0080927505 (electronic bk.) |
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9781136123177 |
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1136123172 |
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1283151634 |
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9781283151634 |
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9781136123184 |
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1136123180 |
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9781136123139 |
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113612313X |
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9786613151636 |
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6613151637 |
| Standard No. |
10.4324/9780080927503 doi |
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