Hit Men
Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · Print & ebook · July 2, 1991
Copiously researched and documented, Hit Men is the highly controversial portrait of the pop music industry in all its wild, ruthless glory: the insatiable greed and ambition; the enormous egos; the fierce struggles for profits and power; the vendettas, rivalries, shakedowns, and payoffs.
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- Who it’s for
- The business behind the music makes for a lively look at ambition, money, and power.
- Themes
- Music industry history, Greed and ambition, Power struggles and corruption
- Genres
- The Music Business, Entertainment Industry, Media & Communications
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Copiously researched and documented, Hit Men is the highly controversial portrait of the pop music industry in all its wild, ruthless glory: the insatiable greed and ambition; the enormous egos; the fierce struggles for profits and power; the vendettas, rivalries, shakedowns, and payoffs.
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Chronicling the evolution of America's largest music labels from the Tin Pan Alley days to the present day, Fredric Dannen examines in depth the often venal, sometimes illegal dealings among the assorted hustlers and kingpins who rule over this multi-billion-dollar business.
Behind the Music
The business behind the music makes for a lively look at ambition, money, and power.
Come here for
- The power struggles behind America’s major music labels.
- An industry history stretching from Tin Pan Alley onward.
Expect
- Rivalries, shakedowns, and sometimes-illegal dealings.
- A portrait of pop’s less polished machinery.
Where it sits
| The Music Business | 61% |
|---|---|
| Entertainment Industry | 51% |
| Media & Communications | 28% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Musicians' Lives
- Entertainment Industry
- The Music Business
- Authors
- Fredric Dannen
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- July 2, 1991
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Music industry history · Greed and ambition · Power struggles and corruption
- Reading lane
- Musicians' Lives