Music Industry

Since the first edition was published in 2009, Patrik Wikström's The Music Industry has become a go-to text for students and scholars. This thoroug...

The Edge is a scathing portrait of the music industry, and a love letter to Los Angeles  but most of all it's a meditation on growing up and lettin...

For more than two hundred years, copyright in the United States has rested on a simple premise: more copyright will lead to more money for copyrigh...

From the early days of radio through the rise of television after World War II to the present, music has been used more and more to sell goods and ...

Tony Wilson was the TV reporter turned would-be music mogul whose life was more rock'n'roll than the bands he nurtured. He co-founded Factory Recor...

'I see my story as a suite of songs that have a magical connection. I never understood that connection until I sat down to write. It was then that ...

By the late 1960s, popular British prog-rock outfit Pink Floyd were experiencing a creative voltage drop, so they turned to composer Ron Geesin for...

When a musician dies, it is rarely the end of their story. While death can propel megastars to even further success, artists overlooked in their ...

Is their friendship holding them together or holding them back?After years of putting work first, Andreas love life is a mess. Shes in a relations...

The Nashville Cats bounced from studio to studio along the city's Music Row, delivering instrumental backing tracks for countless recordings throug...

It started with the searing sound of a slide careening up the neck of an electric guitar. In 1970, twenty-three-year-old Bruce Iglauer walked into ...

Tony Christie has topped the charts in countries all around the world with `Is This The Way To Amarillo'', `I Did What I Did For Maria'', `Avenues...

'If sound is the fifth element, then Richard has nurtured and enhanced some of the most important soundwaves of our time' M.I.A'Taking us from the ...

''If sound is the fifth element, then Richard has nurtured and enhanced some of the most important soundwaves of our time'' M.I.A''Taking us from t...

Hansa Studios is situated in a former opera house that was, in turn, a 1920s cabaret, the performance hall of the State Chamber Orchestras of the T...

Anyone managing an artist''s career needs to be well versed and have a savvy understanding of the moving parts of the music business. Learn how and...

'If you look at all the people involved - Ivo, Tony Wilson, McGee, Geoff Travis, myself - nobody had a clue about running a record company, and tha...

The music industry is one of the most dynamic and fascinating business sectors. Its business model has continually to adapt and react to changing t...