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95/543 Music Business Handbook and Career Guide (6th edition) Edited by David Baskerville Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA, 1995, xxiv + 589 pp., ISBN 0-8039-7153-2, L22.95, published in association with Sherwood Publishing Partners
When radio first took off in America in the 1920s, music publishers opposed the development on the ground that it would undermine the market for sheet music. Thirty years ago the recording industry was still more or less "a backroom affair". Developments since have allowed annual US sales of cassettes, CDs and videos to "exceed the gross national product of more than 80 countries in the United Nations".
This big handbook, which has received an award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers and is now in its sixth edition, is a guide...