Introduction to the Music Industry, 2nd Edition

PREFACE

Catherine Fitterman Radbill

I’d like to tell you a story. It’s a tale based on the hopes, fears, successes, failures, and collective wisdom of the thousands of students and music professionals with whom I’ve had the distinct honor of working for more than 15 years as a music entrepreneurship evangelist.

I’ve met you in classrooms, meeting rooms, coffee shops, railroad stations, airports, and online. You are 17, or 30, or 55. You are performers, educators, composers, technicians, administrators, inventors, venue managers, DJs, recording artists, bloggers, music retail store workers, record label owners, publicists, or a hundred other things—all working in the service of this thing we can’t live without called music.

When I founded the ...