This Business of Concert Promotion and Touring: A Practical Guide to Creating, Selling, Organizing, and Staging Concerts - Hardcover

Ray Waddell, Richard D. Barnet And Jake Berry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0823076873 ISBN 13: 9780823076871

Publisher: Watson-Guptill, 2007

Synopsis

This Business of Concert Promotion & Touring is a practical guide to creating, selling, organising and staging concerts. It's a nuts and bolts book that addresses not only the business side of concert promotion, but the technical and artisitc sides as well. This is a title geared towards all audiences, from amateur to professional musicians, concert promoters, venue owners and managers, college student activities committee members and advisors, cultural arts organisations, fundraising organisations and, of course, univertsity and music school students and libraries.

About this title

About the Author

Roy Waddell is Senior Writer, Touring,
for Billboard magazine. His weekly
column, On the Road, keeps him in
regular touch with agents, promoters,
artist managers, business and
venue managers, ticketing agencies,
and everyone else
associated with this business of concerts.
He lives in Hendersonville, TN.


Richard D. Barnet, a professor in the
Department of Recording Industry at
Middle Tennessee State University, is
co-author of Controversies of the
Music Industry. He lives in Nashville, TN.


Jake Berry, co-owner of Production
Alliance, has worked in production
management of tours by Tina Turner,
the Rolling Stones, Madonna, AC/DC,
Metallica, and Motley Crue. He lives
in Scottsdale, AZ.

Edition details

• Publisher: Watson-Guptill
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0823076873
• ISBN 13: 9780823076871
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288