[002] Joseph Akins Finds Additional Purpose In Musical Career

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 1, 2010
EDITORIAL CONTACT: Gina Logue, 615-898-5081, or WMOT-FM, 615-898-2800

JOSEPH AKINS FINDS ADDITIONAL PURPOSE IN MUSICAL CAREER
Recording Industry Professor Discusses Teaching, Family on “MTSU on the Record”

(MURFREESBORO) – Dr. Joseph Akins, associate professor of recording industry, will discuss his career, his three albums, including his latest, “Spirit Touch,” and achieving a balance between the academic life and the life of a touring musician at 8 a.m. this Sunday, July 4, on “MTSU on the Record” with host Gina Logue on WMOT-FM (89.5 and wmot.org).
When he was a child, Akins was into rock and roll. As a college student, he studied electronic music composition and developed an appreciation for jazz. But when his father was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and passed away within two years of that diagnosis, Akins turned toward using music for “healing the human spirit,” as he puts it.
To listen to last week’s program about MTSU’s new Gen. Next Living Learning Community, go to http://www.mtsu.edu/news/podcast/podcast2010.shtml and click on “June 27, 2010.” For more information about “MTSU on the Record,” contact Logue at 615-898-5081 or WMOT-FM at 615-898-2800.


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With three Nobel Prize winners among its alumni and former faculty, Middle Tennessee State University confers master’s degrees in 10 areas, the Specialist in Education degree, the Doctor of Arts degree and the Doctor of Philosophy degree. MTSU is ranked among the top 100 public universities in the nation in the Forbes “America’s Best Colleges” 2009 survey.