Title:
Rockonomics : a backstage tour of what the music industry can teach us about economics and life / Alan B. Krueger.
Author:
Krueger, Alan B., author.
Publication Information:
New York : Currency, [2019]
Call Number:
ML3790 .K77 2019
Abstract:
"Drawing on interviews with leading artists and band members as well as journeymen musicians, music executives, and managers, economist Alan Krueger takes readers backstage to show how the music industry works. Incorporating tabulations of the latest data on concert revenues, ticket prices, royalties, streaming, tour dates, and merchandise sales, Rockonomics reveals who makes money and how, and it chronicles the radical transformation of the economics of the music industry in recent decades."--book jacket
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781524763718
Physical Description:
325 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
Contents:
Prelude -- Follow the money : the music economy -- The supply of musicians -- The economics of superstars -- The power of luck -- The show must go on : the economics of live music -- Scams, swindles, and the music business -- Streaming is changing everything -- Blurred lines : intellectual property in a digital world -- The global market for music -- Music and well-being -- Evaluation of the Pollstar Boxoffice database.
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