Music Industry

This textbook is designed to inspire debate and discussion about the past, present, and future of the music industry-blending insights from legal, ...

Rough Trade Book of the Year Resident Book of the Year A Rolling Stone Book of the Year A Mojo Book of the Year A Sunday Times Book of the Year For...

How is the classical music industry responding to the challenges of #MeToo, Black Lives Matter, and other social justice movements? Is increasing a...

The Musician's Journey escorts musicians, performing artists, music teachers, and advanced music students along the road toward a successful career...

Of the many Cold War radio DJs who broadcast to the USSR, Seva Novgorodsev must be near the top of the list. A masterful BBC presenter, Seva was co...

In Chasing Sound, Susan Schmidt Horning traces the cultural and technological evolution of recording studios in the United States from the first pr...

Caring for the Whole Musician brings together insights from two expert musicians and educators to consider the relationship between mental and phys...

This book studies the long-term developments in the South African recording industry and adds to the existing literature an understanding of the pr...

The first photographic celebration of the most famous recording studio in the world, publishing in its 80th year. Unprecedented access to the Abb...

In 1700, most composers were employees of noble courts or the church. But by the nineteenth century, Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Verdi, and many othe...

'One of the most rewarding pieces of hip-hop criticism ever written' Jeff Chang 'Brilliant' Giles Peterson 'Will Ashon's dazzling study gets to th...

Drawing on extensive fieldwork, explores the contemporary pop music scene in this little understood Southeast Asian country. Burma's Pop Music Ind...

The Biggest Edition Revised and Expanded with All New ChaptersA captivating and inspiring guide to building an untouchable empire from mud to marb...

A 2019 Music Book of the Year, THE TIMESOut of print for several years, a comprehensive volume of Lou Reed's lyrics with brand new introductions, n...

Riverdance exploded across the stage at Dublins Point Theatre one spring evening in 1994 during a seven-minute interval of the Eurovision Song Cont...

London 1968:The Unstable Boys are the name on every music insider's lips and tipped to follow in the footsteps of the Beatles and the Rolling Stone...

Traversing London's musical culture, this book boldly illuminates the emergence of Edwardian London as a beacon of musical innovation. The dawning...

London 1968:The Unstable Boys are the name on every music insider's lips and tipped to follow in the footsteps of the Beatles and the Rolling Stone...

*AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4 'BOOK OF THE WEEK'*'Lip-lickingly, dance-around-the-living-room good... A smash hit' Observer'Unflinching and heartwarming'...

Radio Caroline was the worlds most famous pirate radio station during its heyday in the 1960s and 70s, but did the thousands of people tuning in re...

'Patterson is one of the great comic writers of the last quarter century' THE HERALD'Unsparing but ultimately uplifting, every sentence cuts a cape...

an instant classic and a required part of the library of anyone fascinated with the record business. Danny Goldberg, bestselling author of Servin...

This is the story of a year in which the record business appeared to be firing on all cylinders, when commercially the CD was in its imperial perio...

The music industry offers the opportunity to pursue a career as either a creative (artist, producer, songwriter, etc.) or as a music business logic...

***Nominated for the 2024 Penderyn Music Book Prize***A Times Book of the YearA Financial Times Book of the YearA Waterstones Book of the Year'Read...