Introduction to the Music Industry, 2nd Edition

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thank you to the hundreds of students with whom I have had the pleasure of learning and teaching. Your passion for music has inspired me to find new ways to think about the music industry, resulting in this textbook. Gregory Allis, Pedro Avillez Costa, Katonah Coster, Jillian Ennis, Stacey Ferreria, Shrayans Jha, Chris Lane, Christine Mayer, and Yifan Qin are former students who contributed to researching and writing several sections of the book.

My academic colleagues Jim Anderson, Cathy Benedict, Judith Coe, Lawrence Ferrara, E. Michael Harrington, Rich Nesin, Peter Spellman, John Steinmetz, Heather Trussell, and Shirley Washington spent many hours reading and editing my drafts, and encouraged me during those dark moments when ...