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Ticket Masters|Dean Budnick
Ticket Masters : The Rise of the Concert Industry and How the Public Got Scalped
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"A clear, comprehensive look at a murky business." --The Wall Street Journal

Your 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.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780452298088
  • ISBN-10: 0452298083
  • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
  • Publish Date: April 2012
  • Dimensions: 8.37 x 5.54 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.76 pounds
  • Page Count: 416
  • Reading Level: Ages 18-UP

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