Making a Living in Your Local Music Market: Realizing Your Marketing Potential Revised and Updated Fourth Edition (Making a Living in Your Local Market) - Softcover

Weissman, Dick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1423484509 ISBN 13: 9781423484509

Publisher: Hal Leonard, 2010

Synopsis

(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?

About this title

About the Author:

Dick Weissman has written eighteen published books about music and the music business, and he continues to work as a performing musician, songwriter, composer, record producer, and part-time college music teacher. Weissman is the recipient of national and state grant awards. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hal Leonard
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1423484509
• ISBN 13: 9781423484509
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 272