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(Music Pro Guides). The Best Jobs in the Music Industry is an essential career guide for those who love music and are exploring different areas of the music industry beyond the obvious performer route. Michael Redman boils down the job requirements, skill sets, potential revenue, longevity, benefits, and challenges of a variety of music careers both direct and indirect, spanning from performer to label executive to recording engineer and music producer. Each description of a job starts with a short summary designed to help you decide right off the bat whether this might be something you want to explore further, followed by the real stories, paths to success, and challenges you may confront all in the words of real pros. Read and learn from people who have lived the music industry, navigated it well, and been successful. Redman interviewed over 70 pros in the business, including Lee Sklar (sessions and touring musician), Damon Tedesco (scoring mixer), Brian Felsen (CD Baby CEO), Mike Boris (worldwide director of music for McCann), Louis Clark (MTV/VH1 Music Supervisor), David Newman (composer), Michael Semanick (re-recording mixer), Conrad Pope (orchestrator), Todd Rundgren (musician), Gary Calamar (music supervisor), Mark Bright (producer), and Scott Matthews (producer).

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In this 2nd edition of a book first published in 2012, Redman reveals and describes the broad scope of jobs now available in the music industry, from audio engineer to touring musician. Redman conducted interviews with prominent individuals in the music industry--prolific composer David Newman, songwriter and producer Steve Porcaro (founder of the rock band Toto), the multi-talented Todd Rundgren, session bassist Lee Sklar, session singer and touring vocalist Arnold McCuller, and many others. In the preface Redman (who has had a long career as a musician, publisher, composer, and producer) states that his one goal with this book is "to open up the world of music and the music business" to readers and point out that performance comprises only ten percent of the business. The author focuses on jobs that he considers to be viable in today's changing economy, jobs such as booking agent, digital distributor, music editor, music educator, music librarian, orchestrator, software developer, road manager, et al. Each job description includes information on skill sets, hours, upsides, downsides, salaries, locations, and future prospects. Most enlightening are the interviews, which open up other paths to success and the challenges individuals faced. A useful reference resource. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates; students in two year programs; professionals; general readers. --Les Kong, emeritus, California State University, San Bernardino