$34.95

UMB is an insider’s perspective of the music industry’s past, present, and future complimented by online updates from the former CEO of Polygram Records, Irwin Steinberg.

"Quotations" for
Artists, Performers,
Managers & Entrepreneurs

$27.50

QAPME is a collection of 1,200+ quotations from 720+ arts professionals. This eclectic compilation is a result of Chuck Suber’s 59-year career in the arts as manager, publisher, editor, and teacher.

Dictionary for Artists,
Performers,
Managers & Entrepreneurs

DAPME is a unique dictionary of 10,000+ entries and 15,600+ cross-references. It is unmatched in its thoroughness and is considered by many an essential reference for arts professionals. DAPME is supplemented by a free, online addenda updated quarterly. DAPME was created by Chuck Suber, Artist-in-Residence, AEMM Deparment, since 1978.
This book is also available online.

The ReissSource
Directory of the Arts

$34.95

ReissSource is the definitive reference work for the cultural community with over 400 entries of national and international service organizations supplemented with bi-annual online updates. The author, Alvin H. Reiss, is a pioneer in the arts and other non-profit areas working as educator, author, consultant, and program innovator for 40+ years.

TALENT Management

$22.50

The Talent Management online text provides essential and detailed information regarding standard business practices used by arts and entertainment managers when working with, or as, agents, personal managers, business managers, road managers, company managers, and other similar professions in the promotion, booking, and recording of performers, actors, etc.

$17.50

After nearly a half-century of directing American performing arts centers, Arnold N. Breman has seen it all: eccentric songwriters, spotlight-craving comedians and insecure entertainers. In this long-awaited memoir, Breman recalls encounters with some of the most beloved performers of our time.

$17.50

A Second Look at First Night: A Source Book for City Celebrations is an updated version of Marcia Lauzon’s Master’s Thesis. This online book is an in-depth study of the current state of the First-Night organization including case studies and a preface written by First Night Executive Director, Dave Sullivan.

$37.50

Focused on organizing, leading and delivering quality events, Presenting Solutions offers hands-on reference tools for deadline driven event production managers.

AIMprint documents an important initiative by the Center for Community Arts Partnerships at Columbia College Chicago, Project AIM (Arts Integration Mentorship). Through curriculum samples and testimony from educators, artists, and administrators, AIMprint outlines teaching methods that account for students’ diverse learning styles and offers an expansive model for arts integration in the 21st century.

Art/Vision/Voice examines the philosophies and practices underlying Community Arts Partnerships (CAP) programs in the United States. With in-depth case studies and an illuminating introduction on the history of the community arts field, Art/Vision/Voice is a demonstrative guide for students of community arts, as well as an important resource for organizations and educators in the field.

Jazz Pedagogy (with DVD) will assist you in creating and maintaining a rewarding jazz program. It is an ideal textbook for university courses in jazz pedagogy as well as an important resource for all jazz educators, novice or experienced.

DJASM, through its more than 100 case studies, presents some of the best examples of funding and marketing in the arts.

With a Challenge, Plan, Result (CPR) concept, Reiss shows through detailed case studies how dozens of organizations have developed creative strategies to meet key challenges.

Arts Entreprenuership is a combination textbook and workbook written for aspiring arts entrepreneurs. The book covers the step-by-step process of researching, developing, and operating a new arts-based business.

With contributions from over 100 of the top experts and industry professionals on: mistakes to avoid, myths about touring, sex, drugs, software, marketing, better sound, opening bands, sponsorships, immigration, real stories, booking yourself, 61 proven strategies for a better show, and a combined 500 years of experience that will make a difference to your band tomorrow.

Hair Trigger 29 is the latest issue of the Columbia College Chicago Fiction Writing Department's award-winning annual literary magazine. As always, hair trigger includes writers with diverse voices, cultural and linguistic backgrounds.