Ticket masters : the rise of the concert industry and how the public got scalped / Dean Budnick and Josh Baron.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Budnick, Dean.

Contributor:

Baron, Josh.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ticket brokerage.

Performing arts--Ticket subscription.

Performing arts.

Performing arts--Ticket prices.

Ticket scalping.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (386 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ont. : ECW Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the spring of 1975 a trio of neophyte businessmen backed an old Chrysler onto a sun-baked Arizona driveway and convened in their new office. The garage start-up, dubbed Ticketmaster, would come to achieve such market dominance over the following decades some critics would denounce the company as an unlawful monopoly. Yet its path to the top was far from inevitable and Ticket Masters analyzes the legality and ethics behind the actions of Ticketmaster, including its recent merger with Live Nation. It answers such questions as <

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Table of Contents; Prologue: The Summer of Their Discontent; Chapter 1: A Few Reservations; Chapter 2: Put Your Seatin Our Hands; Chapter 3: Master Class; Chapter 4: "A Bunch of Wooly Freaks"; Chapter 5: Rumble in the Jungle; Chapter 6: Rock and Roll'sNew Bottom Line; Chapter 7: Bigger Bangs for Your Bucks; Chapter 8: e-Ticket; Chapter 9: A Quiet Victory; Chapter 10: Secondary Education; Chapter 11: It's a Live Nation; Epilogue: Full Circle; Endnotes; Source Notes; Glossary; Acknowledgments; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781554909414

1554909414

9781554909490

155490949X

OCLC:

729166559