Welcome to the Companion Website

This site is intended to enhance your use of Music Business Handbook and Career Guide, Eleventh Edition, by David Baskerville and Tim Baskerville. Please note that all the materials on this site are especially geared toward maximizing your understanding of the material.

This powerhouse best-selling text remains the most comprehensive, up-to-date guide to the music industry. The breadth of coverage that Music Business Handbook and Career Guide, Eleventh Edition, offers surpasses any other resource available. Readers new to the music business and seasoned professionals alike will find David Baskerville and Tim Baskerville’s handbook an indispensable resource, regardless of their specialty within the music field. This text is ideal for introductory courses such as Introduction to the Music Business, Music and Media, and Music Business Foundations as well as more specialized courses such as the record industry, music careers, artist management, and more. The fully updated Eleventh Edition includes coverage of key topics such as copyright, licensing, songwriting, concert venues, and the entrepreneurial musician. Uniquely, it provides career-planning insights on dozens of job categories in the diverse music industry.

Acknowledgments

We gratefully acknowledge David Baskerville and Tim Baskerville for writing an excellent text and for reviewing the assets on this site. Special thanks are also due to Mark Davis for creating the ancillaries on this site.