Stephen H. Baird

Artist * Advocate * Administrator

 

Community Arts Advocates, Inc.

Stephen H. Baird, Executive Director

PO Box 300112, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130-0030

Telephone: 617-522-3407

TTY/MA RELAY 800-439-2370 7

Email: info@communityartsadvocates.org

Web site: www.CommunityArtsAdvocates.org  

The Business Books:

This Business of Music - Sidney Shemel & Willaim Krasilovsky, 1977; Billboard Publications, Inc., 1515 Broadway, NY, NY 10036. ISBN 0-8230-07752-7.

How to Make & Sell Your Own Record - Diane Sward Rappaport, 1979; The Headlands Press, Inc./Quick Fox, 33 West 60th St., NY, NY 10023 ISBN 0-8256-9932-0.

Successful Artist Management - Xavier M. Frascogna, Jr & H. Lee Hetherington, 1979; Billboard Books of Watson Guptill Pub., 1515 Broadway, NY, NY 10036. ISBN 0-8230-5000-9

Making A Show of It - A Guide to Concert Production - Ginny Berson, 1980, Redwood Records, 6400 Hollis St., Suite 8, Emeryville, CA 94608.

The Artist in Business - Basic Business Practices - Craig Dreeszen, 1988, Arts Extension Service, Division of Continueing Ed., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003.

Others:

Habits of the Heart - Individualism & Commitment in American Life - Robert Bellah and all, 1985, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA. ISBN 0-520-05388-5.

The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations by Christopher Lasch, WW Norton & Company, New York, 1979

"The romantic cult of sincerity and authenticity tore away the masks that people had worn in public and eroded the boundrey between public and private life....Politics degenerates into a struggle not for social change but for self-realization....The proliferation of recorded images undermines our sense of reality...We distrust our perceptions until the camera verifies them...not only because it provides the technical means of ceaseless self-scruitny but because it renders the sense of selfhood dependent on the consumption of images of the self..."

The Fall of Public Man - Richard Sennett, 1974, 1976, Random House, Inc., NY, NY ISBN 0-394-72420-8

"In sum the star system in the arts operates on two principles. The maximum amount of profit is produced from the investment in the smallest number of performers; these are the 'stars.' Stars exist only by checks to the majority of artists practicing their art."

The Seven Laws of Money - Michael Phillips, 1974, Word Wheel, Randon House, NY, NY ISBN 0-394-70686-2

Economic Democracy by Martin Carney and Derek Shearer

Decades of Decision by Michael Harrington

For Sale: Freedom of Speech by Charles Rembar, Atlantic Monthly, March 1981, p 25-32