Artist Management for the Music Business: Manage Your Career in Music: Manage the Music Careers of Others 5th Edition

I have just started reading this book but have learned more with this book than I have ever learned elsewhere. Will be continuing my learning journey.

Easy to read, and fully guides a career in music. If you want to know about and understand the music business, this is THE book.

Very well informed guide.

There are countless "how-to" books about the music business, but none that cover the perspective of the artist manager or, for that matter, the artist as manager, as Paul's five editions have for the past 15 years.Why is this important? Because creative abilities alone can only take an artist so far. If you're an artist or manager (or both), Paul helps you cut through the competition, drawing on decades of knowledge and real-world experience to advance your skills to the highest professional standards. The payoff to you is not in discovering shortcuts (there are none), but in preventing costly or even career-derailing mistakes.Take your time to read this new, updated edition carefully, for there is wisdom on every page. If you're an artist or if you manage talent, this book is likely to be the most valuable investment you'll ever make.-- Jeff Green, Managing Partner, Stone Door Media Lab, Monterey, California

book doesnt tell you anything about actually doing the job or give any actual useful advice...just says stuff like "get a business degree and a law degree" and "make friends and build a network"...where? how? useless...having read 10 or more music business books this is the single most apsolutely useless one.