Navigating the music industry : current issues & business models / Dick Weissman and Frank Jermance ; with Gennaro DeSantis, Randi Perkins, Kim Wangler.
Denver: attempting to build a regional music scene -- Radio, television, and print media -- Record stores -- Musical instrument stores -- Jingles -- The role of the Musicians' Union -- Artist management and entertainment industry lawyers -- Music associations -- Music censorship -- Morality issues -- The role of the Supreme Court -- The NEA and government funding -- Rap -- Teenagers, sex, & violence -- Does country music have a future? -- Country music genres -- Ralph Peer and the junction of country and folk music -- The Grand Ole Opry, radio cowboys -- Hank Williams -- Elvis and Rockabilly -- Chet Atkins, Owen Bradley, and the Nashville sound -- Eddie Arnold and the Everly Brothers -- The Country Music Foundation -- The Sixties -- The Pop influence -- Outlaw, pop stars, and raging bulls -- Commercialization and image -- Independent labels and the majors: cliches, stereotypes, and realities -- Contemporary business and merchandising -- What large and small countries do and don't do -- Jazz, R&B, rock 'n' roll, and the Independent companies -- Folk labels -- Sun, King, and Chess Records -- Artist-run labels -- Artist imprint labels -- Doing it on your own -- Women in the music industry -- Riot Grrls -- Women in film and television -- John Phillips: a case study in creativity, popularity, and long-term careers in popular music -- The artist vs. the entertainer -- The songwriter's songwriter -- Mamas & the Papas song and career -- San Francisco -- The abortive solo career -- Drugs, drugs, and more drugs -- Songwriting technique -- Business models -- Napster -- Copyright licensing primer -- Business planning issues: breakeven -- Budgets -- Business entities -- Taxation -- The employee vs. independent contractor dilemma -- The Tax audit -- How to avoid an IRS audit -- The changing face of music retail -- The development of chain stores -- The Independents -- Franchises -- Customer service -- MAP and the slowing of price wars -- Teaching studios -- Music retail and the internet -- Competition -- NAMM and the new national marketing initiatives -- Appendices: Deductible expenses of performing artists -- The MSSP audit technique guides -- IRS audit guidelines for the entertainment industry.
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