Music Business Careers

<p>The music industry offers the opportunity to pursue a career as either a creative (artist producer songwriter etc.) or as a music business logician (artist manager agent entertainment attorney venue manager etc.). Though both vocational paths are integral to the industry’s success the work of calling songs into existence or entertaining an audience differs from the administrative aspects of the business such as operating an entertainment company. And while the daily activities of creatives may differ from those of the music business logician the music industry careerist may sense a call to Career Duality to work on both sides of the industry as a Career Dualist a concept this book introduces defines and explores in the context of the music industry.</p><p>This new volume speaks to the dilemma experienced by those struggling with career decisions involving whether to work in the industry using their analytical abilities or to work as a creative or to do both. The potential financial challenges encountered in working in the industry as an emerging artist may necessitate maintaining a second and simultaneous occupation (possibly outside the industry) that offers economic survival. However this is not Career Duality. Likewise attending to the business affairs that impact all creatives is not Career Duality. Rather Career Duality involves the deliberate pursuit of a dual career as both a music industry creative and music business logician which is stimulated by the drive to express dual proclivities that are simultaneously artistic and analytical.</p><p>By offering a Career Duality model and other constructs examining research on careers calling authenticity and related concepts and providing profiles of music industry dualists this book takes readers on a journey of self-exploration and offers insights and recommendations for charting an authentic career path. This is a practical examination for not only music industry professionals and the entertainment industry but for individuals interested in expressing both the analytical and artistic self in the context of career.</p>