Web Resources

There are tens of thousands of music-related magazines, websites, and trade organizations. To try to identify and evaluate all of them is futile at best. Thankfully, with the ease of search engines on the Internet today, publishing a comprehensive directory in book form is unnecessary. For example, a simple Google search on the keywords bluegrass+music+business yielded over 482,000 listings! Still, there are some magazines and trade groups that cross genre boundaries and are useful to anyone in the music business. Here are ten web resources that are relevant to performers and songwriters: General Information 1. List of music journals, newspapers, and periodicals: www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/journals.html 2. PollstarThe Music Hotwire: www.pollstar.com 3. Billboard magazine: www.billboard.com 4. Performing Songwriter magazine: www.performingsongwriter.com 5. American Songwriter magazine: www.americansongwriter.com

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Performing Rights Organizations (PRO's) and Trade Associations 6. American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP): www.ascap.com 7. BMI www.bmi.com 8. SESAC www.sesac.com 9. Society of Composers, Authors, and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN): www.socan.ca 10. American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada (AFM): www.afm.org 11. National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS): www.grammy.com 12. National Music Publishers Association (NMPA): www.nmpa.org 13. Nashville Songwriters Association International www.nashvillesongwriters.com 14. Just Plain Folks www.jpfolks.com 15. Circle of Songs www.circleofsongs.com

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