This is a must-have guide for music professionals. Labels, managers, publishers and booking agents know how to make money in the music business – do you?

Today’s musician needs skills beyond song-writing, performing, producing, or engineering. You need to know your industry and gather business and legal knowledge to equalise the competitive advantage of other key players. Today’s musician needs to be an all-rounder.


1. Learn about building a professional music business: establis...

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Is holding a scrum meeting every two hours a good idea? Do movies and tv give an accurate picture of working life? How come Indians haven't taken over all our IT-jobs yet? This and other pressing questions from the workplace answered in one handy volume.

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Het oeuvre van de Nederlandse schilder Tjebbe Beekman bestaat uit schilderijen van ruwe stedelijke landschappen en interieurs op groot formaat. Kenmerkend zijn de gelaagdheid en veelheid aan materiaal. Zo werkt hij met acrylverf, maar verwerkt hij ook touw, ijzerdraad en zand in zijn werken. De dynamische composities zijn afgewogen en zorgvuldig samengesteld aan de hand van foto’s. In zijn chaotische verbeeldingen is tegelijkertijd ritme aanwezig, een structuur en orde...

An observatory is a place for the observation of the universe. The artists of Observatorium, however, cast their gaze upon the inhabited world. All over the planet, they have created works of art that are not only to look at, but also to enter, observe and reflect from. Over the past 30 years, Observatorium produced an internationally significant body of work, from the sculpture Zandwacht (Sand Watch) in the Port of Rotterdam to Dwelling in Seclusion, a work of art devoted to solitude in New ...

For more than 20 years, work was done at the East side of the Grote Markt square, with the Forum as the cultural heart of the intervention. Commissioned by the City of Groningen, NL Architects designed a new type of building, moving way ahead of the international competition in the multiple assignment early 2017.

At the opening in late 2019, the daring, visionary design concept finally took concrete form: a series of stacked squares, opening up and overlapping a rich cultural programme.

With ...

This is the fifth edition of a book bringing together the microeconomic insights on functioning of non-profit organisations, complementing the wide range of books on the management of non-profit organisations by focusing on both theoretical and empirical work.

Firstly, definitions of non-profit organisations are considered, after which the economic rationale behind their existence is examined, followed by a study of the demand for them and its implications for their functioning.The final chap...

The BDA Currents: Where Diplomacy Meets Business, is the Brussels Diplomatic Academy’s annual report covering the wider geopolitical and other factors influencing and affecting the world of diplomacy, international relations and global business. The journal focuses on issues of topical interest around the centers of global power, influence and importance, including the continents of Europe and Africa, the Middle East, China, India & Asia, Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States an...

A Text Worthy of Plotinus makes available for the first time information on the collaborative work that went into the completion of the first reliable edition of Plotinus’ Enneads: Plotini Opera, editio maior, three volumes (Brussels, Paris, and Leiden, 1951-1973), followed by the editio minor, three volumes (Oxford, 1964-1983). Pride of place is given to the correspondence of the editors, Paul Henry S.J. and Hans-Rudolf Schwyzer, with other prominent scholars of late antiquity, amongst who...

Imagine a world in which each individual has a fundamental right to be reborn. This idle dream haunts Hilde Van Gelder’s associative travelogue that takes Allan Sekula’s sequence Deep Six / Passer au bleu (1996/1998) as a touchstone for a dialogue with more recent artworks zooming in on the borderscape near the Channel Tunnel, such as those by Sylvain George and Bruno Serralongue.

Combining ethnography, visual materials, political philosophy, cultural geography, and critical analysis, Gro...