MUSIC
Primarily instrumental music genre, gentler in sound than adult contemporary and notably popular in elevators.
What is Easy Listening?
EQ
What is Equalization.
A recording console control used to effect changes in sound level.
What is Fader?
Performer a contractor prefers to hire above other available.
What is Firstcall musician?
Rental of a performance facility where the landlord offers only the venue and minimal other services perhaps no stagehands, ushers, or box office help.
What is Four walling?
Electronic press kit that usually includes press releases, the artist’s biography. News clips, previous media reviews, digital artwork, and photos.
What is EPK?
Top administrator and/or financier of a production.
What is Executive producer?
Legal defense to a copyright infringement claim, allowing minimal takings of copyrighted material for purposes such as scholarship, research, and news reporting.
What is Fair use doctrine?
The lead instrumentals in a section of an orchestra.
What is First desk/first chair?
A talent agent or booker licensed by an artists’ union or guild
What is Franchised agent?
Retail display at the end of an aisle.
What is End cap?
A requirement of performance to be rendered following disengagement from (termination of) a contract.
What is Executory, executory provision?
A collection of musical lead sheets intended to help a performer quickly learn new songs.
What is Fake book?
A publicist.
What is Flack?
Radio broadcast of a commercially released music recording
What is Airplay?
An audio mixer or sound technician.
What is Engineer?
In the entertainment field, to promote, advertise, publicize, display, distribute, license, sell, or advance an artist or a property.
What is Exploit, exploitation?
Federal Communications Commission.
What is FCC?
A natural sound, without coloration or alteration of highs and lows.
What is Flat?
Form of product specific advertising or promotion placed by the retailer, but funded in whole or in part by the manufacturer
What is Coop (cooperative advertising)?
(1) Employers pension fund of the AFM. (2) Extendedplay record.
What is EP?
A prerecorded tape or film used for a period longer than the one initially paid for.
What is Extended use?
(1) A person who manages money or other things of value for another person and in whom the second party has a right to place trust. (2) A situation or relationship between persons where one acts for another in a person of trust.
What is Fiduciary?
Radio broadcasting using a frequency modulation signal to transmit over the air.
What is FM Radio?
Surplus record inventory sold at bargain prices
What is Cutouts?