Ticket Masters: The Rise of the Concert Industry and How the Public Got Scalped

By Josh Baron and Dean Budnick

Book Overview

"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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0452298083
• ISBN13: 9780452298088
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher