Title: The business of music /
Authors: Talbot, Michael,; Talbot, Michael,
Date: 2002
Publisher: Liverpool University Press,
Physical description: ix, 320 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: M
Abstract: Is business, for music, a regrettable necessity or a spur to creativity? In the 11 essays in this text the authors wrestle with this question from the perspective of their chosen area of research.
Contents: A Venetian operatic contract of 1714 / Michael Talbot -- What choirs also sang : aspects of provincial music publishing in late-nineteenth-century England / Judith Blezzard -- The modernisation of London concert life around 1900 / Simon McVeigh, Cyril Ehrlich -- Debussy, Durand et Cie : a French composer and his publisher (1884-1917) / Robert Orledge -- Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) : the teacher in the marketplace / Caroline Potter -- Copyright as a component of the music industry / Dave Laing -- Illegality and the music industry / Simon Frith -- The tarnished image? : folk "industry" and the media / Mike Brocken -- Collective responsibilities : the arts council, community arts and the music industry in Ireland / Rob Strachan, Marion Leonard -- Paying one's dues : the music business, the city and urban regeneration / Sara Cohen -- Learning to crawl : the rapid rise of music industry education / Mike Jones.
Subject headings (LCSH): Music trade--Great Britain.; Music trade--History--Congresses.; Music trade--History.