Book description
Allen prepares you for the realities of successfully directing the careers of talented performers in the high-risk, high-reward music business.You will learn to prepare yourself for a career in artist management - and then learn the tools to coach, lead, organize time, manage finances, market an artist, and carve out a successful career path for both yourself and your clients.
The book features profiles of artist managers, an exclusive and detailed template for an artist career plan, and samples of major contract sections for artist management and record deals. Updated information including a directory of artist management companies is available at the book's companion website.
A peer reviewer for Artist Management for the Music Business proclaimed ".this is going to be an excellent text. It contains many unique insights and lots of valuable information. This is essential reading for managers, students, and artists in the music business.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Principles of Management for the Artist Manager
- 2. Preparing to Manage
- 3. The Artist: Preparing to Be Managed
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4. Lessons in Artist Management: Colonel Parker to Sharon Osbourne
- Tom Parker
- Rene Angelil: Targeting
- Michael Jeffreys: Conflicts of interest
- Peter Grant: A shared belief between the artist and the manager
- Herbert Breslin: Promoting your artist
- Joe Simpson: Manage by the Boy Scout motto
- Jon Landau: Keeping a business focus
- Bob Doyle: Using your network
- Andrew Loog Oldham: Exploit your artist’s talents
- Johnny Wright: A matter of timing
- Lou Pearlman: A matter of trust
- Sharon Osbourne
- References
- 5. The Artist Management Contract
- 6. Planning: A Primer for the Artist Manager
- 7. The Artist as a Business
- 8. Income From Live Performance
- 9. Income From Songwriting
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10. Income From Recording
- Recording for large labels
- Income and expenses for the artist from a recording contract
- Things for which the label customarily pays
- Current trends in contracts for recording artists
- A changing model for major labels?
- Artists who record for independent labels
- It’s business
- The role of radio in the recording artist’s income
- Sponsorships, endorsements, television, motion pictures
- References
- 11. Conducting Business for the Artist
- 12. The Artist Career Plan
- 13. Coaching, Leadership and Final Advice
- A. Take 6 Marketing Brief April 2006
- B. Artist Management Contract Form
- C. Partnership Agreement for Members of a Band
- D. Recording Contract
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
Product information
- Title: Artist Management for the Music Business
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2012
- Publisher(s): Focal Press
- ISBN: 9781136123177
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