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Confessions of a record producer : how to survive the scams and shams of the music business

Call Number

  • 780 A945 (CEN)

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Edition

3rd ed.

Publication Information

San Francisco : Backbeat Books ; Emeryville, CA : Distributed to the book trade in the U.S. and Canada by Publishers Group West ; Milwaukee, WI : Distributed to the music trade in the U.S. and Canada by Hal Leonard Pub., c2006.

Physical Description

xvi, 335 p. ; 24 cm.

Notes

Includes index.

Contents

  • The pros
  • The creators
  • Companies, companies, companies
  • Understanding distribution, or Why are there so many logos on the record?
  • The major label deal from the artist's point of view
  • Publishing deals : the 200% pie, or 100% of something is better than 200% of nothing
  • The major label deal from the producer's point of view
  • The major label deal from the record company's point of view
  • The single
  • The independent record deal : the birth of the new indie
  • The independent record deal from the point of view of the record company
  • The independent record deal from the point of view of the artist
  • The baby record deal
  • The vanity label
  • Wrap-up : who earned what?
  • The myth of copyright protection, or "Hey, they stole my song!"
  • Master fraud
  • Sneaky lawyer stuff
  • A&R dogma
  • ASCAP vs. BMI : PRO pontification
  • Production boners
  • Marketing mishigas
  • Getting credit where credit is due
  • Industry census
  • The big picture, or The record industry from the point of view of the rest of the world
  • Record/pause
  • Appendix. Family trees of big six distributors as of January 1998.

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