Overview
""A clear, comprehensive look at a murky business."" -The Wall Street JournalYour favorite band has just announced their nationwide tour. Should you pay to join their fan club and get in on the pre-sale? No, you decide to wait. But the on-sale date arrives, and the site is jammed. You can't get on-and the concert is sold out in six minutes. What happened? What now? Music journalists Dean Budnick and Josh Baron chronicle the behind-the-scenes history of the modern concert industry. Filled with entertaining rock-and-roll anecdotes about The Rolling Stones, The Grateful Dead, Pearl Jam, and more-and charting the emergence of players like Ticketmaster, StubHub, Live Nation, and Outbox-Ticket Masters will transfix every concertgoer who wonders just where the price of admission really goes. This edition has an updated epilogue that covers recent industry developments. ""A clear, comprehensive look at a murky business."" -The Wall Street JournalYour favorite band has just announced their nationwide tour. Should you pay to join their fan club and get in on the pre-sale? No, you decide to wait. But the on-sale date arrives, and the site is jammed. You can't get on-and the concert is sold out in six minutes. What happened? What now? Music journalists Dean Budnick and Josh Baron chronicle the behind-the-scenes history of the modern concert industry. Filled with entertaining rock-and-roll anecdotes about The Rolling Stones, The Grateful Dead, Pearl Jam, and more-and charting the emergence of players like Ticketmaster, StubHub, Live Nation, and Outbox-Ticket Masters will transfix every concertgoer who wonders just where the price of admission really goes. This edition has an updated epilogue that covers recent industry developments.
Full Product Details
Author: Dean Budnick ,
Josh Baron
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
Imprint: Plume
Dimensions:
Width: 13.80cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 21.50cm
Weight: 0.371kg
ISBN: 9780452298088
ISBN 10: 0452298083
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 24 April 2012
Audience:
General/trade
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Professional and scholarly
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General
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Inactive
Availability: Manufactured on demand
Reviews
Budnick and Baron did a tremendous job in chronicling the history of the U.S. and Canadian concert business and how the business models have changed. . . . Ticket Masters is an excellent book for music historians and business geeks alike. --www.boomerocity.com
“Ticket Masters takes you behind the box office and explains…the real reasons a good seat costs so damn much.” — Alan Light, former Editor-in-Chief, Vibe and Spin “Fascinating.” — Rolling Stone
<i>Ticket Masters</i> takes you behind the box office and explains the real reasons a good seat costs so damn much. <b>Alan Light, former Editor-in-Chief, Vibe and Spin</b> Fascinating. <b>Rolling Stone</b>
Ticket Masters takes you behind the box office and explains . . . the real reasons a good seat costs so damn much. <br> -Alan Light, former editor in chief, Vibe and Spin
Author Information
Dean Budnick is the executive editor of Relix magazine and the founder of Jambands.com. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard and a J.D. from Columbia Law School. Josh Baron is the editor in chief of Relix magazine and contributes to a variety of media outlets including New York City-based radio station WPUV, where he serves as a music reviewer.
