Artist Management for the Music Business, 304 pages, $ 34.95

Key Features

Key industry insight for both the new and experienced artist managers

Exclusive planning and management tools

Successful career strategies for managers and the artists they manage

Fully cited text from literature, personal interviews, and personal experience of the author.

Career and business planning for the artist manager including fully detailed and exclusive career plan template for an artist

Description

Artist Management for the Music Business provides clear in depth information on what to do as an artist manager and how to do it. The book looks at the application of classic management theory to artist management, includes profiles of successful artist managers as well as offering skill development for planning, coaching, and leading.

Table of Contents

1)Professional Artist Management and Its Principles
2)Preparing to Manage
3)Preparing to be Managed
4)Lessons in Artist Management
5)Planning
6)The Artist as a Business
7)Income from Live Performance
8)Income from Songwriting
9)Income from Recording
10)Conducting Business for the Artist
11)The Artist Career Plan
12)Coaching, Leadership, and Final Advice
Appendix A: Take 6 marketing brief
Appendix B: Artist Management Contract Form
Appendix C: Partnership Agreement for Members of a Band
Appendix D: Recording Contract
Appendix E: Kasha’s Artist Management Contract
Appendix F: Code of Conduct- Music Manager’s Forum in Australia

Author Information

By Paul Allen, an Associate Professor in the Department of Recording Industry at Middle Tennessee State University and co-author of Record Label Marketing, also published by Focal Press. He is also a frequent lecturer at other universities on artist management and other music business subjects. His career work has included radio, TV, political management, and the music business.