MEIEA Journal

IntroductionThe recent prominence of online music streaming has caused noticeable changes in how music is discovered and how artists reach their fans (IFPI 2016). Streaming platforms such as Spotify, Apple Music, SoundCloud, and Pandora have substantially...

JoAnne O'Connell. The Life and Songs of Stephen Foster: A Revealing Portrait of the Forgotten Man behind "Swanee River," "Beautiful Dreamer," and "My Old Kentucky Home." Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. www.rowman.comJoAnne O'Connell's...

Shep Gordon. They Call Me Supermensch: A Backstage Pass To The Amazing Worlds Of Film, Food, And Rock 'N'Roll. New York: HarperCollins, 2016. www.harpercollins.com.Mike Myers, known for his characters as varied as Austin Powers, Shrek, Wayne Campbell...

Amber Nicole Shavers. The Little Book of Music Law. Chicago: American Bar Association, 2013. https://shop.americanbar.org/ebus/Store.aspx.The Little Book of Music Law is part of the American Bar Association's (ABA) "collection of absurd, hilarious, and...

Larry Wacholtz. Monetizing Entertainment: An Insider's Handbook for Careers in the Entertainment & Music Industry. Beverly Schneller (editor). New York: Routledge, 2017. www.routledge. comMonetizing Entertainment: An Insider 's Handbook for Careers...

AbstractIntroductionSocial media is playing a fundamental role in creating both disruption and opportunity in the music entertainment industry. For most artists, a growing emphasis is being made to engage fans and build fan communities through online...

Notice to ContributorsThe Journal of the Music & Entertainment Industry Educators Association is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to all aspects of the music and entertainment industry and music and entertainment industry education. All feature articles...

Mary E. Donnelly (with Moira McCormick). Boys Don't Lie: A History of Shoes. Vestal, New York: Pure Pop Press, 2013.The mere fact that a pair of authors dedicated substantial time and effort to pen the definitive biography of a power-pop rock band-whose...

IntroductionWhen a song is produced solely using a computer, the producer often assumes the roles of both composer and producer, engaging both creative and technical skills. Developing a curriculum that can cover both creative and technical skill sets...

Methodology and Research DesignThe methodology and research design for this case study were threefold. First, the author reviewed more than ten years of Warped and Kevin Lyman-related journalism for the purpose of learning the history, reported successes,...

Sarah Kate Gillespie. The Early American Daguerreotype: Cross-Currents in Art and Technology. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2016. mitpress.mit.eduThe early history of photography is a byzantine labyrinth of artistic, entrepreneurial, and technological...

IntroductionOver the past two decades, there have been multiple studies and analyses conducted to separate and identify the components of hit songs in popular music. Some of the research has focused on a body of work (corpus studies) while others have...

Notice to ContributorsThe Journal of the Music & Entertainment Industry Educators Association is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to all aspects of the music and entertainment industry and music and entertainment industry education. All feature articles...

IntroductionAs the number, variety, and availability of postsecondary educational offerings in the entertainment business increases, so grows the body of scholarship on the content, development, and delivery of entertainment industry curricula. This...

IntroductionInternships are a critical component of music industry education. This form of experiential learning provides students important opportunities to put into practice theory learned in the classroom. In many programs, internships also serve...

This research was funded in part by a research grant from the Music & Entertainment Industry Educators Association.IntroductionAlmost a century ago, John Dewey (1859-1952) wrote his classic Experience and Education, in which he made a case for what...

The justification for statutory copyright protection seems self-evident. Creators of copyrightable works invest substantial time, skill, and capital into the content they create, and therefore should have some legal recourse if others profit from their...

IntroductionGermaine to the effort of integrating the study of the popular music industry into academia is a need for academic models and methods derived from supporting disciplines. The current triad of disciplines to which the study of the recording...

Thomas R. Leavens. Music Law for the General Practitioner. Chicago: American Bar Association, 2013. http://shop.americanbar. org/ebus/store.aspx.Music Law for the General Practitioner was written as a primer to music industry issues faced by general...

Kevin Lyman (Producer). The New Music Biz: Bands, Brands, Managers, & Tours (Video Series). Seattle & San Francisco: CreativeLive. www.creativelive.com.Vans Warped Tour is the largest and longest running touring music festival in the United States....

Edward Ray (with Barbara Hall). Against All Odds: The Remarkable Life Story of Eddie Ray, A Pioneer Music Man. North Charleston, South Carolina: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012.Imagine a sixty-year career in the music business-a career...

Barry Mazor. Ralph Peer and the Making of Popular Roots Music. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2015. www.chicagoreviewpress.com.Ralph Peer's legacy as a legendary figure in the early music industry who also markedly influenced the development of modern...

Mitch Weiss and Perri Gaffney. The Business of Broadway: An Insider's Guide to Working, Producing, and Investing in the World's Greatest Theatre Community. New York: Allworth Press, 2015. www.allworth.com.Amid the hundreds of books discussing the rapidly-expanding,...

Joanne Finkelstein. The Art of Self Invention: Image and Identity in Popular Visual Culture. London: I.B. Tauris, 2007. www.ibtauris.com.The complex and contentious nature of the relationship between society and the individual has been the subject of...

John Seabrook. The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory. New York: W.W. Norton, 2015. www.wwnorton.com.John Seabrook's The Song Machine presents a fast paced, behind the scenes look at the complex ecosystem of writers, producers, artists, and label executives...

Fred Goodman. Allen Klein: The Man Who Bailed Out The Beatles, Made the Stones and Transformed Rock & Roll. City: New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015. www.hmhco.com.For the dedicated Beatles aficionado, the name Allen Klein may still rankle...

Stephen Witt. How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy. New York: Viking/Penguin Random House, 2015. www.penguinrandomhouse.comIf you're wondering how or why consumers switched their allegiance...

Notice to ContributorsThe Journal of the Music & Entertainment Industry Educators Association is a peerreviewed journal devoted to all aspects of the music and entertainment industry and music and entertainment industry education. All feature articles...

Carl Perkins and Ron Rendleman. Disciple in Blue Suede Shoes. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 1978.Carl Perkins and David McGee. Go, Cat, Go!: The Life and Times of Carl Perkins, the King of Rockabilly. New York: Hyperion, 1996.Stephanie...

Adam Caress. The Day Alternative Music Died: Dylan, Zeppelin, Punk, Glam, Alt, Majors, Indies, and the Struggle between Art and Money for the Soul of Rock. Montreat, North Carolina: New Troy Books, 2015.Many books have been written about alternative...

Eric Weisbard. Top 40 Democracy: The Rival Mainstreams of American Music. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2014. www.press.uchicago.edu.Where were you when you heard that song? If you grew up listening to top 40 radio, the chances are when you...

Robert King. Music Business: The Secret To Successfully Making It In the Music Industry. Amazon Digital Services, 2015.When it comes to succeeding as an artist in the music industry, there's plenty of written advice to be found. Much of it has been documented...

Damien Chazelle (Director and Writer). Whiplash (Feature Film). Los Angeles: Bold Films, 2014.Words such as "intense," "provocative," and "extreme" seem appropriate descriptors for the cinematic and musical experience that is Damien Chazelle's Whiplash....

Jacques Attali. Noise: The Political Economy of Music. Translated by Brian Massumi. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1985.Jacques Attali's Noise: The Political Economy of Music opens with an ambitious program, the critique of two and a half...

IntroductionA transformational change in business is occurring. Many of the traditional strategies that fueled localized and regional success are being disrupted by new technologies and strategies. The distinctive competencies of resource advantage,...

IntroductionYouth Music Industries (YMI) is a business venture co-created by myself, as teacher-researcher, and my high school students. The venture was established to create a learning environment that would equip students with the knowledge and skills...

IntroductionTheater management in more conserv ative, smaller cities, where the larger audience perhaps has less affinity' with the cultural product, is a challenging endeavor.1 The financial modus for theaters in these locations is dependent on the...

IntroductionPrior to July 10, 2015, new music recordings were released on different days in different countries around the world. On February 26, 2015, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) announced the official acceptance...

IntroductionThe Beatles, comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, are arguably the most popular musical group of all time. Based upon music sales, cultural and musical influence, and posthumous interest (Lennon and Harrison...

IntroductionSome American brands are so iconic that their corporate marks are known around the world: think golden arches, mouse ears, or the bow tiebedecked bunnies, for example. Americans are known far and wide for our brands representing business...

IntroductionInitially developed at the dawn of the eighteenth century, the concept of entrepreneurship has been the focus of increasing interest in the area of economics since the nineteenth century and that of higher education since the middle of the...

IntroductionOver the past one hundred years, the musical experience and the means to monetize it have been thoroughly transformed-and more than once. The systems that have supported the mass production, distribution, and consumption of music involve...

IntroductionAccording to the Global Entertainment and Media Outlook: 20142018 (PwC 2014) global consumer books revenue grew in 2013 after years of decline, as the increase in ebook revenue surpassed the decreasing print revenue. This type of tipping...

IntroductionHistory offers many examples of events that are unduly neglected because they do not memorialize an individual of charismatic personality, have timelines with a quantifiable beginning and end, or possess some other narrative device for easily...

Daniel Frankel and Gideon Frankel, editors; Interviews by Kara Pound. Artist in Control: Success in the New Music Business. Artist in Control, 2013. artistincontrol@gmail.com.Hearing from professionals and entrepreneurs working on the front lines of...

The Event Safety Alliance, Donald C. Cooper, Editor. The Event Safety Guide: A Guide to Health, Safety and Welfare at Live Entertainment Events in the United States. New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2014. www.skyhorsepublishing.com.Everyone agrees there...

Ralf Schmerberg, Director; Many Ameri, Ralf Schmerberg, and Torsten Schmidt, Executive Producers; Easton West and Ralf Schmerberg Writers. What Difference Does It Make: A Film About Making Music (Video). Mindpirates Productions, 2014. www.rbmal5.com.Over...

John C. Maxwell. Talent is Never Enough: Discover the Choices that Will Take You Beyond Your Talent Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2007. www.thomasnelson.com.Thousands of talented entertainment and industry students enter universities every year with the...

Stephen Marcone and David Philp. Music Biz 101 & More (Broadcast, Streaming, and Podcast). Wayne, New Jersey: William Paterson University, musicbizl01wp.com or wpsc.wpunj.edu or bit.ly/lmSfqPc.At a time when there are thousands of free online courses,...

UK Music, The Intellectual Property Office, and Aardman Animations. Music Inc. (App). 2014. Available for iOS and Android.MDickie. Popscene (App). 2014. Available for iOS and Android.Here are two new apps that teach you how to manage a career. Music...

Steve Winogradsky. Music Publishing: The Complete Guide. Van Nuys, California: Alfred Music, 2013. www.alfred.com.Steve Winogradsky's Music Publishing: The Complete Guide is an exciting new volume on music publishing. This well-organized book lives up...

Notice to ContributorsThe Journal of the Music & Entertainment Industry Educators Association is a peerreviewed journal devoted to all aspects of the music and entertainment industry and music/ entertainment industry education. All feature articles...

IntroductionBeginning in the mid-1990s the concert promotion industry underwent significant changes, disrupting the thirty-five year business model of individual, regional concert promoters in favor of centralized, national control-first by SFX, then...

IntroductionIn 2012, Yankee Stadium was an appropriate venue for famed New York baseball legend Derek Jeter to speak to a group of beauty editors about the re-launch of his cologne line, Driven Black.1 During the event, Jeter admitted that in his younger...

IntroductionAfrica is a huge continent teeming with people-a vast sea of over one billion souls. Sub-Saharan Africa, which this research focuses on, boasts the majority of this population.2 All things being equal the region should have one of the biggest...

A significant portion of this article comes from the following source: Elton, Serona. "Graduated responses to online piracy: Approaches taken in the United States and around the world. " In Music and Law (Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance, Volume...

IntroductionWhile there are few reliable data on exact proportions of full-time and part-time faculty in entertainment and music business programs, MEIEA (Music and Entertainment Industry Educators Association) institutional data suggest entertainment...

IntroductionWe live in an age in which the amount of information available to students, educators, business persons, and the general public is at an all-time high as more and more information is made available in various forms on a daily basis. In 2012...

IntroductionThe goal of this project is to document the creative process of a jazz group often referred to as "jamming" from a historical, social, and musical perspective, and offer strategies for transfer of the findings to any group setting. While...

IntroductionWhen Beyoncé released a new album to an unsuspecting public on December 13, 2013 she was widely praised for the lack of marketing that accompanied the record. Out of the blue, it was there, available worldwide on iTunes. Singles, the most...

OverviewThe purpose of this research study is to quantify new, commercially successful methods used in modem music production and songwriting so that they can be applied and disseminated in the classroom setting.This paper will examine some of the common...

Editors note: the charts in this article are high resolution images that may be enlarged for detailed viewing on screen or for printing. The print edition of the MEIEA Journal contains monochrome versions of these same images.IntroductionAlong with the...

IntroductionLyrics that tell a story have always been a defining characteristic of American popular music. Musical adaptations of nineteenth-century folklore (The Ballad of John Henry), teenage heartbreak songs of the early 1960s {Tell Laura I Love Her),...

IntroductionAt the 2013 MEIEA Summit in New Orleans, Philip Mann and Stephen M. Hamner, both of the Louisiana Economic Development Office, presented An Exploration of Louisiana's Tax Credits for Film and Music, an overview of the past and present initiatives...

IntroductionMusic streaming services allow users access to millions of tracks from any web-connected computer legally and free of charge. These services are now viewed as a window into the future of the music industry.Spotify is the fastest growing music...

LaBarre, Director; Hank Neuberger, Producer. Lady Antebellum: Own the Night World Tour (DVD). Eagle Rock Entertainment, 2012 (124 minutes, NTSC), www.eagle-rock.com.Lady Antebellum has risen to become one of the most successful crossover country acts...

RJ Smith. The One: The Life and Music of James Brown. New York: Gotham Books (Penguin Group), 2012. www.us.penguingroup. com.There has been no shortage of writing about the seminal singer, bandleader, and self-appointed "Godfather of Soul" James Brown....

Greg "Freddy" Camalier, Director; Stephen Badger and Greg "Freddy" Camalier, Executive Producers; Raji Mandelkorn, Co-Producer. Muscle Shoals (Video). Ear Goggles Productions, 2013. www.magpictures.com/muscleshoals/.In a digital world where access to...

David Flitner, Editor. Less Noise, More Soul: The Search for Balance in the Art, Technology, and Commerce of Music. Milwaukee: Hal Leonard Books, 2013. www.haUeonardbooks.com.This book makes for an interesting contrast with the Ariel Hyatt book reviewed...

Ariel Hyatt. Cyber PR For Musicians: Tools, Tricks & Tactics For Building Your Social Media House. Brooklyn: Ariel Publicity, Artist Relations, and Booking, 2012. www.cyberprmusic.com.Ariel Hyatt is a renowned New York publicist who has leaped into...

Bobby Owsinski. The Touring Musician's Handbook. Milwaukee: Hal Leonard Books, 2011. www.halleonardbooks.com.For anyone who wants to go on large-scale tours as a hired-hand musician, singer, road manager, or audio person, this book is an essential guide....

Notice to ContributorsThe Journal of the Music & Entertainment Industry Educators Association is a peerreviewed journal devoted to all aspects of the music and entertainment industry and music/ entertainment industry education. All feature articles...

IntroductionOne of the unforeseen aspects of the Three Tenors legacy is that the franchise has been elevated to star status in the U.S. antitrust community (Verscheiden 2007). This group of legal boffins is a niche audience admittedly, but the enthusiasm...

(ProQuest: ... denotes formulae omitted.)IntroductionMore than fifteen years ago, when the World Wide Web was still in its early years and its full potential as a social network was yet to be revealed, the British band Marillion was able to raise US$60,000...

IntroductionIt's been said anonymously, and repeated in many industry circles, "The music business is a game where you can't make a living, only a killing. The key is to try to have as many killings (successes) in a row as you can." Following that line...

IntroductionUsing Nielsen SoundScan and Billboard chart data for the periods 1993-2003, this paper develops a cohort panel dataset comprised of "Heatseekers Albums" artists and groups for the purpose of studying historical patterns of sophomore album...

IntroductionAt 10:57 a.m. on September 5, 1977, a Titan-Centaur expendable rocket provided Chuck Berry and Chess Records with Rock & Roll's first interstellar distribution deal. Johnny B. Goode, along with twenty-six other tracks, was engraved onto...

Notice to ContributorsThe Journal of the Music & Entertainment Industry Educators Association is a peerreviewed journal devoted to all aspects of the music and entertainment industry and music/ entertainment industry education. All feature articles...

IntroductionThis article describes the Entertainment Law and Professionalism Clinic (hereafter "ELP Clinic" or "Clinic"1), an initiative designed to expose students to the practice of professionalism while serving their entertainment industry legal needs....

IntroductionOn June 3, 2005 in a United States federal courtroom in Nashville, Tennessee, seven words disrupted the age-old, natural cycle of musical development: "Get a license or do not sample."1 At the heart of the case was a sample2 of a common,...

IntroductionThe learning theories of Robert M. Gagné have made a lasting impression on the field of education, especially in terms of efforts in curriculum design. His contributions are now widely recognized and have been integrated into the education...

IntroductionThe Blues Had a Baby and They Named it Rock & RollOn his Grammy winning album, Hard Again, McKinley Morganfield (a.k.a. "Muddy Waters") sings his song The Blues Had a Baby and They Named it Rock & Roll.1 What are the racial and social...

IntroductionAmusic mentor of mine once told me "overnight success" takes about seven years to transpire. While he may have been misguided a decade ago, to achieve artistic stardom today means breaking the norms and the boundaries of the past. The make-up...

By 1969, the record business had been around in some way, shape, or form for nearly eighty years. For an octogenarian, it had never been healthier. A study commissioned by John Wiley of Columbia Records said that the business had grown 250 percent in...

Will Hermes. Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever. New York: Faber and Faber, Inc., 2011. www.fsgbooks.com.Music scenes have played a major part in the development of popular music and the music industry for...

Kathy Sloane. Keystone Korner: Portrait of a Jazz Club. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2012. iupress.indiana.edu.I first met Todd Barkan at Dizzy's Coca-Cola Club in New York City, October, 2011. I was there in an official capacity,...

Editor's note: the charts in this article are high resolution images that may be rotated and enlarged for detailed viewing on screen or for printing. The print edition of the MEIEA Journal contains monochrome versions of these same images.IntroductionThis...

Stephen Marcone. Managing Your Band: The Ultimate Responsibility (5th edition). Wayne, New Jersey: HiMarks Publishing, 2010. www.haIleonard.com.Now in its fifth edition, Managing Your Band continues to be the "go to" book for anyone pursuing the multifaceted...

I've just finished watching my favorite nighttime drama Grey s Anatomy1 and am again astounded by the amount of amazingly cool independent music placed in the show. Anyone s Ghost by The National, Abducted by Cults, Chameleon/Comedian by Kathleen Edwards,...

Bernie Finkelstein. True North: A Life In The Music Business. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Ltd., 2012. www.mcclelland.com.I always marvel at how little Americans know about Canada. Finkelstein himself is low-key on this subject. One of his amusing...

IntroductionOn May 2, 2012, it was reported that pop music stars the Jonas Brothers, a family trio who gained immense exposure on the Disney Channel, were leaving their record label, Hollywood Records.1 Artists choose to leave record labels for many...

Milton Okun, as told to Richard Sparks. Along the Cherry Lane: Tales from the Life of Music Industry Legend Milton Okun. Beverly Hills, California: Classical Music Today, 2011.This is truly a remarkable book. Most music business biographies or autobiographies...

IntroductionIt is commonly regarded that good writing skills are critical for maximized productivity and success within the workplace, regardless of industry. Appleman (2009) suggests that studies have shown poor writing in the workplace leads to hours...