MURFREESBORO — MTSU and the campus community can glean plenty of music-industry
knowledge Tuesday, Oct. 21, from the man who’s helped guide the careers of
musicians ranging from Pink Floyd to Billy Bragg.
Manager and
producer Peter Jenner will speak at 5 p.m. in Room 221 of MTSU’s McWherter
Learning Resources Center as part of the Department of Recording Industry
Chair’s Speakers Series. Doors will open at 4:30 p.m. for the free public
lecture, and seating will be on a first-come, first-served basis.
A searchable
campus map with parking notes is available at http://tinyurl.com/MTSUParkingMap14-15.
Jenner, who earned his
degree in economics from Cambridge University and lectured at the London School
of Economics, left academia to manage a new band he’d heard called Pink Floyd.
His music career has spanned more than four decades and includes work with
groups ranging from Marc Bolan and T. Rex and the Edgar Broughton Band to Ian
Drury and the Blockheads, the Clash and Michael Franti.
He has served as manager
for more than 25 years for singer-songwriter Billy Bragg, who visited MTSU in
September 2013 as the inaugural guest speaker for the College of Mass Communication’s
Americana Music series.
Jenner is president
emeritus of the International Music Managers' Forum and a former director
of the UK Music Managers' Forum and also worked with the Featured Artists
Coalition. He’s also been involved in efforts to build a music rights registry
at the European Union level and has argued for an international music registry
to help equalize future digital music delivery systems and payments to artists.
“I think the mass market
model of music we have now is in crisis, and the new inspiration will come from
individual creative musicians and new people and structures that develop to
support them,” Jenner wrote for Co-Operatives UK.
“People are into the
major labels because they have the money, and at the moment they have the
advantage so they drive a very hard bargain, but that doesn't work best for
artists, and doesn't work for our cultural future.”
For more
information on MTSU’s recording industry program, visit http://recordingindustry.mtsu.edu.
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