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Making Money, Making Music offers tools to encourage creative and adaptive entrepreneurship in the music business. Written for the classroom and the workplace, it introduces readers to core principles and processes and shows how to apply them adaptively to new contexts, facilitating a deeper understanding of how and why things work in the music business. By applying essential concepts to a variety of real-life situations, readers improve their capacity to critically analyze and solve problems and to predict where music and money will converge in a rapidly evolving culture and marketplace.

David Bruenger is the founding director of the Music, Media, and Enterprise Program at Ohio State University.

“Bruenger offers a highly useful text to those entering or stalled in the business, who are desperately seeking expert guidance. Making Money, Making Music gives, for the first time, a publication that is well steeped in research but has access points that will be meaningful to both students and younger professionals. Bruenger has a significant position in creating studies in the field and writes with lucid authority and a welcome lack of ideology.”—Mitchell Korn, founder of MitchellKornArts, Advisor for Edify Technologies, Inc. and Adjunct Professor of Music and Community at the Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University
 
“Making Money, Making Music provides great historical context. It’s a very interesting read, with great research on the topics covered. I think this original work is stimulating, excellent, and very well written.”—Kim Wangler, Associate Professor and Director of Music Industry Studies, Appalachian State University
 
“I found Making Money, Making Music absolutely fantastic. Bruenger has uncovered a link in the chain that binds the emerging entrepreneurial musician and a more entrepreneurial industry.”—Gary Beckman, Director of Entrepreneurial Studies in the Arts, North Carolina State University