The Recording Industry

The Recording Industry presents a brief but comprehensive overview of how records are made, marketed, and sold. Designed for an introductory survey course, but also applicable to the amateur musician, the book opens with an overview of popular music and its place in society, along with the key players in the recording record companies; music publishers; and performance outlets. In the book's second part, the making of a recording is traced from production through marketing and then retail sales. Finally, in part 3 legal issues, including copyright and problems of piracy, are addressed. The new edition will take into account the massive changes in the recording industry occurring today thanks to the revolution of music on the web. This will include changes to all parts of the book, from issues of production and distribution of music via the internet to legal issues that are still being resolved about ownership of recordings. The Recording Industry is the second, revised edition of a book originally published by Allyn & Bacon in 1998. It was published as part of a series on media and communication, and not aggressively marketed to music business courses.