Essays Tagged: "music business"

Introduction to Starting an Independent Record Label

The purpose of establishing an independent record label is to capitalize on the growth of the music business - an industry that continues to grow despite the sluggish state of the world's key ec ... which have contributed to this, include the fact that Americans spend more money buying prerecorded music and videos than they do going to the movies or attending sports events and Americans own more ...

(3 pages) 60 0 4.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Marketing and the Music Business vanderbilt R.J.P

Marketing and the Music Business Jim Halsey and Joe Sugarman spoke with our class on February 12, tying togethe ... Jim Halsey and Joe Sugarman spoke with our class on February 12, tying together marketing and the music industry. Halsey has had a long history in the industry, specifically in country music, workin ... Sugarman is well known as an innovator himself. While Halsey succeeded in getting the first country music act on late night TV, Sugarman in a way defined late night TV himself. As the marketing genius ...

(2 pages) 32 0 4.0 Sep/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Evaluation of the strategies undertaken by Virgin Group during the 1980s and 1990s under the leadership of Richard Branson

firm's vision and goals ( see the appendix1; the aim of Virgin Communications).The sales of Virgin Music business for which Virgin was best associated with in order to support the airline business se ... view of Virgin's assets).At the beginning, Branson believed in the organic growth. He believed that music and retailing activities together with selected parts of the communications industry were clea ...

(16 pages) 394 0 3.7 Apr/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Music Of The Early 80's

Music of the Early 1980's        The seeds for a change in music were planted in t ...    The seeds for a change in music were planted in the early 80's. In 1981, the people in the music business were trying to determine what the music trends for the 1980's would be. Lionlel Richi ... re trying to determine what the music trends for the 1980's would be. Lionlel Richice was the first musician to produce the number one pop, R&B and country record in the same week, just his partner Di ...

(4 pages) 20 0 4.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

The Horrible “Great” Conductors

itrary authority, and that he is accorded a position out of all proportion to his real value in the musical, as opposed to the music-business, community," he says in one of such places. It is obvious ... ing a conductor to be a "titan of the podium, and is such very nearly the worst obstacle to genuine music-making." Furthermore, he names the conductors to be "great," and he discusses the "cult of the ...

(3 pages) 3718 0 0.0 Feb/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

MP3paper

but there are also new types of entertainment emerging. There are now new ways to listen to music, via MP3s. MP3 is "Shorthand for Moving Picture Experts Group-1, Audio Layer-3"(Isenberg). MP3 ... ever want to buy another album again. MP3 is only one of several types of digital CD quality music that can be saved and also played on your personal computer. I personally like MP3 the best be ...

(3 pages) 8 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Rock 2

The music genre of Rock, thought by some to be the devil's music, to me is an inspiration and it helps m ... ted because of what they listen to. That is totally arrogance and I for one am really serious about music and couldn't see living without it. First of all, all of my favorite bands do not ever comment ... dealing with evilness in their lyrics. Secondly in modern Rock there aren't too many drugies in the music business, if they are it's in other genres that I don't care to talk about. For me it's not so ...

(3 pages) 10 0 5.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

The Suitcase Lady

cessities, but I pulled through. I did not have the clothes, the schooling nor the money, but I had music to fill my soul.Mom died soon after my 21st birthday. Alone and terrified, I married Scott one ... one and terrified, I married Scott one of my fellow co-workers whom which also shared a passion for music. Like me, he was just a poor boy from an even poorer family, but did he ever have the talent t ...

(2 pages) 5 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Steve Jobs as a Transformational leader

h human creativity and sheer enjoyment" (Burrows). With the success of the iPod Job's dominated the music business with the music player and iTunes online music store. iTunes along brought forth a net ...

(6 pages) 127 0 5.0 Oct/2008

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers