Phil Hardy
Education: Sussex, UK (and exchange student at Berkley, US)
BA in English and American studies 1969 Sussex: MA in American
studies 1970.
Book Publications include: Sam Fuller, Praeger, 1972), Raoul
Walsh (Edinburgh Film Festival Publications, 1974) Psychoanalysis
and The Cinema (Edinburgh Film Festival Publications, 1976),
Faber Companion To Popular Music of the 20th Century (1990,
1995 and 2002). He is also the editor and chief writer of
the Overlook Film Encyclopaedias. These include The Western
(1984, 1990, 1994) Horror, (1987, 1993, 1995, 1998) Science
Fiction (1986, 1989, 1991, 1995, 1998), and Gangsters (1999).
War (forthcoming, 2004).
As a journalist Phil Hardy has written for Variety, Music
Week, the Sunday Times, Time Out and various music and film
trade magazines.
Phil Hardy was the founding editor of MUSIC & COPYRIGHT, which
was published by the Financial Times between 1992 and 1999
and is now published by the Informa Group. He remains editor
of MUSIC & COPYRIGHT, which is generally accepted as the most
authoritative and objective source of information about the
international music business.
As a music industry expert Phil Hardy has worked as a consultant
to various public bodies in the UK on the economic importance
of the culture industries. He was a consultant on the World
Bank project Creating a Music Industry in Africa. He also
wrote the Band Aid documentary Thinking about Africa, which
was shown several times on BBC. For it he travelled to Ethiopia
and Sudan. Published consultation reports in this area include
Culture and Commerce: the Importance of Culture to the London
Economy (1989, 1990).
As editor of MUSIC & COPYRIGHT Phil Hardy has chaired and
taken part in various music industry panels. Recent examples
include Prospects for the Indian Music Industry (at MIDEM,
1997) and, Co-operation: The Way forward For the Collection
Societies? (MIDEM, 2000).
Phil Hardy is also the author of several music industry reports.
These include The European Music Industry (1997) and (as co-author)
The Latin and North American Music Business (1997), both of
which were published by FT Media. He was also the author of
The National Music Publishers Association of the US 1997 and
1998 surveys, International Music Publishing Revenues, 1997.
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