The Bookstore

Crescent Music Services is doing the legwork for you... here is a growing list of books about music and the business of music which you may find helpful in your career.

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How to Make and Sell Your Own Recording
by Diane Sward Rapaport, Loreena McKennitt

Guerrilla Music Marketing Handbook:
201 Self-Promotion Ideas for Songwriters, Musicians & Bands

by Bob Baker

This Business of Music: The Definitive Guide to the Music Industry
by M. William Krasilovsky, et al

101 Music Business Contracts - Updated Edition
Preprinted Binder / CD-ROM set containing over 100 contracts and agreements for recording artist, musicians, record companies, managers, songwriters, labels, producers, indies and any and all others in the music industry. Entertainment law at it's best!
by R. Williams

Tim Sweeney's Guide to Releasing Independent Records
by Tim Sweeney, Mark Geller

Behind the Glass:
Top Record Producers Tell How They Craft the Hits

by Howard Massey

Start and Run Your Own Record Label
by Daylle Deanna Schwartz

Music Law: How to Run Your Band's Business
(Music Law, 2nd Ed) by Richard Stim

Everything You'd Better Know About the Record Industry
by Kashif, Gary Greenberg 1885726031

Your First Cut: A Step-by-Step Guide to Getting There (a book for songwriters)
by Jerry Vandiver, Gracie Hollombe
How To Be Your Own Booking Agent
by Jeri Goldstein - FINALIST in the 1999 INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER BOOK AWARDS

The Musician's Atlas 2007 (Musician's Atlas: The Ultimate Resource for Working Musicians)

the best-selling contact and networking directory, is created especially for musicians and others to connect with fans and music business professionals.

 

STAR TRACKS
Principles For Success In The Music & Entertainment Business

by Larry E, Wacholtz, Ph.D. - Review: (by Ingram)
In "Star Tracks," Larry Wacholtz has indeed written the next generation of indispensable music industry literature. The acknowledged bible, David Baskerville's "Handbook . . ." finally has a fitting protege. Wacholtz has used the cream and meat from works by the music business elite (Passman, Krasilovsky, the Brabec twins and Baskerville himself), contributed a ton of his own research data with practical quotes by top professionals, and presented it in a lively easy-reading style. The book is comprehensive, with a wealth of charts and figures, but manages never to be dull. --Alan Remington, Professor of Music, Orange Coast College.

 

Note By Note - A Guide to Concert Promotion

From The WomanSource Catalog & Review: Tools for Connecting the Community for Women; review by PH - Whether you're a community organizer staging a fundraising event, a fan bringing a favorite artist to town, or a professional producer looking to expand your audience, this book could mean the difference beteween hosting a costly flop or a professional, inspiring, income-generator. Written by the combined efforts of many organizers and producers over the years, this how-to for organizing concerts tells you what you need to know about event planning (setting production goals, working with artists, bookings, halls, tickets and pricing); publicizing your event right down to the concert program/adbook and actual event production (staffing requirements, sound, lighting and the day of the show). A final chapter addresses everything else, from childcare accessibility to fundraising visas. Special appendices include sample contracts and accounting ledgers to keep everything legal, safe and within budget

 

Make Money Performing in Schools

by David Heflick - A comprehensive manual (190 pages) providing complete information on program development, marketing, and presentation. Presented in two parts, Part One provides information relevant to all disciplines; Part Two contains program descriptions and program theme ideas in separate chapters for each of the major disciplines. Included are interviews with national arts-in-education authorities such as Larry Stein, Director of Program Development for Young Audiences, Inc., and Dorothy Sasscer of Chamber Music America