Solid Gold: Popular Record Industry

by R. Serge Denisoff

More than 90 record companies release over 9,000 pop records each year--a staggering total of 52,000 songs. Each one competes for the gold record, the recording industry's symbol of success that... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878555862
• ISBN13: 9780878555864
• Release Date: December 1975
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

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This book calls the music industry "solid gold", but is it really this way? The gold is there and shines brightly, but the hardships of getting in and staying in the business smudge the gold with black ink, the same ink that flows over dozens of contracts and agreements that have to be signed every year, constraining artists and producers ever more. This handy book shows you that the gold isn't as golden as it seems, with insight information and interesting articles about the evolution of law in the music business.