Managing Artists in Pop Music: What Every Artist and Manager Must Know to Succeed

by Mitch Weiss, Mitch Weiss, Perri Gaffney

Book Overview

Music managers and artists will learn the secrets of successful management with scenarios from a manager's work life along with the legal and business skills to master them. Through stories of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 158115268X
• ISBN13: 9781581152685
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Allworth Press
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Great introduction to the business

I purchased this book to help me with the review and involvement of managers on a day to day basis and an overview of rules of engagement. I found the book very helpful and I have gone back to it occasionally to refresh myself. Good tool.

What a great book

This is a great book to start out with if your getting into the music industry from being in a band and becoming a manager/booking agent. I really suggest to pick this up. The contracts in the back are good...a must read. One of the reviewers said, this book only relates to pop music and not other genres. I have to disagree, I've been in the industry for 8 years now, and the book actually does help anyone that is STARTING to get in the business.

Neds improvement but good

This is a useful book but unfortunately only relates to pop music and the other genres are left alone. If you don't know which style you should choose and promote you should first read something more general like "Ty Cohen's Secrets to Making Money in the Music Industry" by Ty Cohen which is a valuable book for those who want to make a hit into the music business. This book reveals the most important secrets to succeed and you will start making profit in no time! Buy this book now if you want to find out the secrets from the pros.

A terrific guide, cleverly laid out---artists take note

Hard to imagine a book doing a better job than this one does of walking someone through the world of pop music management. The authors have hit on a clever way to provide a wealth of detail, wisdom and rules, while keeping things entertaining: The narrative follows three days in the life of a manager of a band, using that story on which to hang the nuts and bolts. That way, you not only learn the tricks of the trade, but you get a sense of the life as well. This book would by no means be of interest only to someone who wants to get in strictly on the management side--I'm a (hopefully up-and-coming) musician, and almost everything in the book seemed potentially helpful to me, both in understanding what I can expect in a manager, and in learning approaches to self-management as well. This book is a tremendously valuable addition to my career-development library.