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Making a Living in Your Local Music Market: Realizing Your Marketing Potential

Dick Weissman

(Music Pro Guide Books & DVDs). This newly updated book is an invaluable resource for the musician or aspiring musician who lives outside the major music business markets. The author has lived in New York, Los Angeles, Denver, and Portland, Oregon, and he details the differences in strategies that a musician can use to make a living outside the mainstream music marketplaces. This book shows you how to expand and develop your skills as a musician and composer right in your own backyard. It explores topics relevant to musicians on 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 publications are the most useful? Why copyright your songs?

Book Details

  • Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
  • Publish Date: Jun 15th, 2010
  • Pages: 272
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - 0004
  • Dimensions: 8.90in - 5.90in - 0.80in - 1.05lb
  • EAN: 9781423484509
  • Categories: Business AspectsReferenceRecording & Reproduction

About the Author

Weissman, Dick: -

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).