This Business of Concert Promotion and Touring: A Practical Guide to Creating, Selling, Organizing, and Staging Concerts
Spiral-Bound | October 2, 2007
Ray D. Waddell, Rich Barnet, Jake Berry
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This Business of Concert Promotion and Touring: A Practical Guide to Creating, Selling, Organizing, and Staging Concerts
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The only book that looks at the business of concert promotion. Concerts are part art, part party—and a big part business. This Business of Concert Promotion and Touring is the first to focus on that all-important business aspect, from creating a show, to selling a show, to organizing the show, to staging the show. Working with venues, personnel, booking, promoting, marketing, publicity, public relations, financial management, and much more are covered in this indispensable one-volume resource. And the ideas and techniques explained here can be used for every type of concert promotion, including college shows, artist showcases, club gigs, as well as major events handled by local promoters, nationwide promoters, and worldwide promoters. Concert promoters and tour managers at every level need to know This Business of Concert Promotion and Touring
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Original Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272 pages
ISBN-10: 0823076873
Item Weight: 1.1 lbs
Dimensions: 6.2 x 0.8 x 9.3 inches
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.
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