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Reviews

“As the editor of Music Industry Online, I have to say that anyone with any interest in breaking into or at least understanding the local music industry should get themselves a copy of this book... I strongly suggest this book to anyone even remotely involved with South Africa’s music industry.”
– Richard Rumney, MIO

“Where there was nothing, there is now something and the industry at every level owes thanks to Shaw for undertaking and completing this mammoth task.”
– Gwen Ansell, Business Day

“Have you… read Jonathan Shaw’s The South African Music Business? This book is a must-read for anybody in the music business – especially if you’re new in the industry – and will give you a better understanding of the workings of the many intricate facets that make up the weird and wonderful world that is the SA music scene.”

– http://www.streetlamp.co.za/News/64

“This is the only title in South Africa to comprehensively tackle all the [music] industry topics and, as such, is long overdue.”
– BPM magazine

Author Biography

Jonathan Shaw was born in Johannesburg in 1981. He attended the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and obtained a Bachelor of Commerce degree with Honours in Business Economics in 2004. He has also attained a certificate in sound engineering from Inhouse Audio Training while later completing Pro Tools courses at the Academy of Sound Engineering.

Shaw is a music business entrepreneur. His first love and passion is making music and is a professional record producer who works with a multitude of artists and record labels in a freelance capacity. He runs his own recording studio called Shaw Music Studios. Music and recording have been his obsession for most of his life with guitar, bass, vocals and piano being his trusted companions in his career. He is also a music business consultant and provides business consulting to the music industry through his company Ibilion Music. He lectures a short course, Management and Marketing for the Music Industry at Wits Plus, the Centre for Part Time Studies, at the University of the Witwatersrand as well as at the Academy of Sound Engineering. He has spoken at numerous workshops and conferences, both nationally and internationally, on music business topics including Moshito, the South African music conference and exhibition.

Shaw is also one of the pioneering partners behind the Music Business Academy – a dedicated school for music business courses and workshops. He has conducted research for the Gauteng Provincial Government to inform the Gauteng Music Strategic Framework in 2009.

Shaw continues to write many articles and columns, particularly for the BPM Magazine, Muse Magazine, Music Industry Online, The Mail & Guardian and the South African Journal of Business Management.