Reading List
Here is the reading list in various formats. Please familiarise yourself with some of these texts as relevant.
CSM4 Reading List on Amazon
AMAZON WISH LIST – CSM4 Music Business
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Note : We have managed to source some of these titles as Ebooks and audio books – see below.
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Spotify Audio Book
Chris Anderson – Free: The Future of a radical price
Module Handbook Reading List
Essential
Attali, J, Massumi, B. 1985. Noise: The Political Economy of Music. University of Minnesota Press
Burkart, P, 2006. Digital Music Wars: Ownership and Control of the Celestial Jukebox. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Kusek, D and Leonhard, G. 2005. The Future of Music: Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution. Omnibus Press
Nicholas Negroponte 1995. Being Digital, Vintage Publishing.
Indicative
Jeffrey Zeldman. 2003. Designing with Web Standards, New Riders
Beall, E. 2003. Making Music Make Money. Berklee Press
Brown, D. 1998. Cybertrends: Chaos, Power and Accountability in the Information Age. Penguin
Crouch, T. 2001. 100 Careers in the Music Business. Barron’s Educational Series
Derrida, J. 2006. Spectres of Marx. Routledge
Galper, H. 2000. The Touring Musician: A Small Business Approach to Booking Your Band on the Road. Billboard Books
Gerardi, R. 2002. Opportunities in Music Careers. 2nd edn. McGraw-Hill
Halloran, M. 2001. The Musician’s Business and Legal Guide. 3rd edn.
Kofsky, F. 1998. Black Music, White Business: Illuminating the History and Political Economy of Jazz. 1st edn. New York: Pathfinder Press.
Krasilovsky, W, Shemel S, Gross J. 2003. This Business of Music: The Definitive Guide. Billboard Books
Lessig, L. 2001. The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World. Random House Trade
Moser, D. 2001. Music Copyright for the New Millennium. 1st edn. Artistpro
Pena, M. 1999. Musica Tejana: The Cultural Economy of Artistic Transformation.
Texas: A&M University Press
Poe, R. 1997. Music Publishing: A Songwriter’s Guide – 2nd Edition. Writer’s Digest Books. Revised edition
Schulenberg, R. 1999. Legal Aspects of the Music Industry: An Insider’s View.
Watson-Guptill Publications
Sim, S. 1999. Derrida and the End of History. Icon Books
Spellman, P. 1999. The Self-Promoting Musician. Berklee Press
Spellman, P. 2002 The Musician’s Internet: On-Line Strategies for Success in the Music Industry. Berklee Press
Sterne, J. 2003. The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction. Duke University Press
Whitsett, T. 2000. Music Publishing, 5th Edition (Mix Pro Audio Series). Artistpro