Musicians today need more than talent and luck to become financially successful. They need a starting place. And the first step in virtually any successful musician's career is to play in a cover band. Cover bands are proven, lucrative avenues for musicians to establish themselves as serious performers and achieve repeated exposure in local venues - leading to important "word of mouth" publicity. Written in straightforward language by professional gigging musicians, Making Money Making Music guides artists through every aspect of achieving financial success through cover gigs. This easy-to-use reference shows readers how to start or join a cover band, choose the right cover songs, land the first gigs or get better ones, handle marketing and promotion, use proper sound and lighting systems, and much more.

September 11, 2001, represents not only the most tragic event of modern times on American soil but also the event that garnered the most intense and pervasive media coverage of our time. The need for information is the instinctive human reaction to crisis. After September 11th, this need was especially great. In the aftermath of this tragic event, journalism and mass communication scholars around the country used a variety of research methods and theories to investigate the news media's performance and the audience's response. In Media in an American Crisis, these studies have been edited into one collection that informs us about the communication process during a national crisis. The content is rich in its variety of perspectives and topics.