The Art of Music Production

English | 2005 | ISBN: 9781844494316 | 317 pages | PDF | 17 MB
This highly entertaining book is packed with insights from the most successful music producers and full of revealing anecdotes about the business and the stars. Now in its third edition and used as a teaching tool in major colleges, it has become the definitive guide to the art - and the business - of music and record production.

About the author:
Richard James Burgess authored "The Art of Record Production" and "The Art of Music Production: The Theory and Practice," (currently in its 4th edition). In his more than fifty year music business career he has produced, recorded and played on many gold, platinum, and multi-platinum albums. He played drums for Britain's "National Youth Jazz Orchestra" and won both the British Arts Council's "Young Musician" and the Greater London Arts Association's "Young Jazz Musician" awards. He is credited with coining the term "New Romantic" to describe the early eighties music movement and with the co-invention of the Simmons SDS5 electronic drums. Burgess earned his Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from the University of Glamorgan. He lectures on the subjects of record production and the music business, is on the executive board of the Music Managers Forum (US), has been co-chair of the Compensation Committee and a member of the national Steering Committee for the Recording Academy's Producer and Engineer Wing. He was one of the founding co-chairs of Smithsonian Music, is currently joint Editor-in-Chief for the Journal on the Art of Record Production, and is the Associate Director for Business Strategies for Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.