Ebook {Epub PDF} Hit Men by Fredric Dannen

 · 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 4/5(2). 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. Chronicling the evolution of America's largest music labels from the Tin Pan Alley days to the present day, Fredric Cited by:  · The quintessential book on the American music business Fredric Dannen's Hit Men chronicles the music business in America from the invention of the phonograph all the way to the introduction of the CD. He devotes a great deal of attention to the influence of organized crime and independent promotion but never bogs down the story with extraneous detail.4/5.

Hit Men by Fredric Dannen Although I enjoyed it myself and it granted me the inside info I was looking for, I really can't say I would suggest reading this book to everyone. It's a rather dry, almost legal report of the inner workings of the music business from the 50's to the 80's. Breaking Down The Biz Part 1/3: Hit Men by Fredric Dannen. This is part one of a three-part series of reviews, or at least summaries of books that document the history of the music industry from the s up to the present day; intended, as the books are to be educational, informative and laced with my personal take. Fredric Dannen's Hit Men chronicles the music business in America from the invention of the phonograph all the way to the introduction of the CD. He devotes a great deal of attention to the influence of organized crime and independent promotion but never bogs down the story with extraneous detail.

The quintessential book on the American music business Fredric Dannen's Hit Men chronicles the music business in America from the invention of the phonograph all the way to the introduction of the CD. He devotes a great deal of attention to the influence of organized crime and independent promotion but never bogs down the story with extraneous detail. Fredric Dannen is an American journalist and author. He is best known for his landmark book Hit Men: Powerbrokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business (), which investigated the behind-the-scenes dealings of the major American record labels in the s and s, focussing on the careers of leading CBS Records executives Walter Yetnikoff and Dick Asher. Fredric Dannen was a co-recipient of the Overseas Press Club's Morton Frank Award for business reporting from abroad. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Institutional Investor, Rolling Stone, and Barron's. He received the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award for Hit Men.