“Ticket Masters” a sociological study, economics text, and pop culture history all at once

book-cover-ticket-mastersIf you’ve ever wished to determine your exact level of music geekery, Dean Budnick and Josh Baron‘s Ticket Masters: The Rise of the Concert Industry and How the Public Got Scalped makes for an excellent litmus test. The book – out next month in paperback from Plume – is an involving, in-depth analysis of the modern ticketing industry.

Far from focusing directly on Ticketmaster, Budnick and Baron go back to the start of the modern ticketing industry. Beginning with the development of electronic ticketing, and steadily working their way forward, Ticket Masters is a sociological study, economics text, and pop culture history all at once.
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