Bibliograph

Rockonomics, a backstage tour of what the music industry can teach us about economics and life, Alan B. Krueger

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Rockonomics, a backstage tour of what the music industry can teach us about economics and life, Alan B. Krueger

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-310) and index

Illustrations

platesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Rockonomics

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1061864807

Responsibility statement

Alan B. Krueger

Sub title

a backstage tour of what the music industry can teach us about economics and life

Summary

"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

Table Of 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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