The Future of Music: Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution - Softcover

Kusek, David; Leonhard, Gerd; Lindsay, Susan Gedutis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0876390599 ISBN 13: 9780876390597

Publisher: Berklee Press Publications, 2005

Synopsis

(Berklee Press). For the next generation of players and downloaders, a provocative scenario from a music industry think tank. From the Music Research Institute at Berklee College of Music comes a manifesto for the ongoing music revolution. Today, the record companies may be hurting but the music-making business is booming, using non-traditional digital methods and distribution models. This book explains why we got where we are and where we are heading. For the iPod, downloading market, this book will explain new ways of discovering music, new ways of acquiring it and how technology trends will make music flow like water, benefiting the people who love music and make music.

About this title

About the Author

Kusek is a musician who has been inventing the future of music for the past twenty-five years. Today, Dave innovates at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Mass.

Leonhard is a respected music futurist and oft-quoted visionary, a well-known music industry executive and music business entrepreneur, a sought-after strategic adviser and music industry super-node -- and still a performer (guitar), writer, and producer.

Synopsis

Today, the record companies may be hurting but the music making business is booming, using non-traditional digital methods and distribution models. This book explains why we got where we are and where we are heading. For the iPod, downloading market, this book will explain new ways of discovering music.

Edition details

• Publisher: Berklee Press Publications
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0876390599
• ISBN 13: 9780876390597
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 193