Making and Marketing Music: The Musician's Guide to Financing, Distributing, and Promoting Albums

Jodi Summers

oct 2004 · Distribuido por Simon and Schuster

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This industry-savvy guide will help musicians of all levels make the album that best complements their skills and meets their career objectives. Revealed here are the who, what, where, when and how of album making, and the tools to sell and prosper in the business. Included are interviews with P. Diddy, Ozzy Osbourne, and members of Linkin Park, and other top industry professionals.

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Jodi Summers is the president of World View Media, an eleven-year-old company that supplies entertainment and new technology material to magazines, newspapers, Web sites, and online services throughout the world. The company currently supplies entertainment-oriented articles, photographs, and columns to more than 140 college newspapers in the United States and 40 publications throughout the world. Internationally, the average weekly readership of World View Media materials is in excess of 15 million individuals. Aside from her duties at World View Media, Summers has more than fifteen years' experience as a music industry journalist. Her work has been published in every leading music industry publication. She's been editor and photo editor for such renowned U.S. music publications as Hit Parader, Rip, Rockbeat, and Hot Shots. Domestically, her work has been published in Rolling Stone, Esquire, People, and Time, among others. Internationally, she's worked with numerous publications throughout Europe and Asia including Blickpunkt:Film, Musik Woche, Bravo, Audio, il Giornale, Zounds, Viva Rock, Tokyo Today, Music Life, and Crossbeat. Summers lives in Santa Monica, California.