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“Bruenger offers a highly useful text to those entering or stalled in the business, who are desperately seeking expert guidance. Making Money, Making Music gives, for the first time, a publication that is well steeped in research but has access points that will be meaningful to both students and younger professionals. Bruenger has a significant position in creating studies in the field and writes with lucid authority and a welcome lack of ideology.”—Mitchell Korn, founder of MitchellKornArts, Advisor for Edify Technologies, Inc. and Adjunct Professor of Music and Community at the Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University
“Making Money, Making Music provides great historical context. It’s a very interesting read, with great research on the topics covered. I think this original work is stimulating, excellent, and very well written.”—Kim Wangler, Associate Professor and Director of Music Industry Studies, Appalachian State University
“I found Making Money, Making Music absolutely fantastic. Bruenger has uncovered a link in the chain that binds the emerging entrepreneurial musician and a more entrepreneurial industry.”—Gary Beckman, Director of Entrepreneurial Studies in the Arts, North Carolina State University
List of contents
Introduction
1. Musical Experience as Transaction
2. Transience to Permanence
3. The Rise of Commercial Markets
4. Media Revolutions
5. Convergence and Crossover
6. Massification
7. Scaling and Selling Live Performance
8. Visual Media
9. Artists, Audiences, and Brands
10. Digitization
11. State of the Art
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
David Bruenger is the founding director of the Music, Media, and Enterprise Program at Ohio State University.
Summary
Offers tools to encourage creative and adaptive entrepreneurship in the music business. Written for the classroom and the workplace, this book introduces readers to core principles and processes and shows how to apply them adaptively to new contexts, facilitating a deeper understanding of how and why things work in the music business.
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"This book will satisfy the need for a textbook on the music industry that emphasizes its entrepreneurial facets . . . Summing up: Recommended"
