MURFREESBORO — MTSU's Department of Recording Industry is on an international list of
acclaimed schools touted by The Hollywood Reporter that includes Juilliard,
Berklee, Yale and even London's Royal College of Music.
The department’s
music business program is part of the magazine's "Top 25 Music Schools
2014," which was published online and in the Nov. 14 edition of The
Hollywood Reporter.
The international list,
which refers to MTSU's “music business school,” was compiled by the
publication's editors and "dozens of industry and academic insiders"
who "assessed each school's reputation," according to the report. The
schools then ranked each other anonymously.
"We are
thrilled that the national recognition continues for the Department of
Recording Industry, which was recently named by Billboard as one of its Top 5
schools to study music internationally,” said Beverly Keel, department chair.
“Our faculty is
dedicated to providing students with a foundation of communication and critical
thinking skills that will prepare them for careers in the ever-changing music
business. Our alumni have become award-winning artists, songwriters and
producers, as well as managers, publishers, booking agents, publicists and
label executives, and we are so proud of all they have accomplished."
Recording industry
undergrad majors in the College of Mass Communication at MTSU can focus on
audio production, commercial songwriting or music business. A Master of Fine
Arts degree in recording arts and technologies prepares MTSU graduate students
for advanced work in audio production, recording and integrated electronic
media.
The recording
industry department, which is regularly included in top-program listings around
the world, also collaborates with MTSU’s School of Music on a "music
industry" minor concentration that allows students to minor in
music-industry entrepreneurship or recording industry.
The Hollywood
Reporter listing noted that MTSU's "music business school grads run the
Nashville outposts of Sony Music and Universal Music (Group) as well as New
York's Electric Lady Studios. Chris Young and Lady Antebellum's Hillary Scott
went there, too."
The mention also
quoted longtime music journalist Alanna Nash as saying that MTSU has "an
incredible music business school." Like the other schools, the MTSU item
included a pair of notable alumni — Sony Music Nashville Chairman and CEO Gary
Overton and multi-Grammy-winning producer Blake Chancey.
More than a dozen
MTSU alumni or former students and faculty from around the university have been
nominated for Grammy Awards in the last four years. Seven have won Grammys,
including a couple of repeat recipients, in categories from classical to gospel
to bluegrass. Former students, including Young, Scott, Eric Paslay and Brett
Eldridge, have found themselves on the Billboard Country Airplay chart
simultaneously.
"The list of
UMG Nashville staffers and artists who have attended MTSU is too long to put in
print," said Mike Dungan, president and CEO of Universal Music Group
Nashville. "There is no doubt why this university has always been at the
top for music industry study.”
Universal Music
Group includes the Nashville branches of the renowned Capitol Records, EMI, MCA
and Mercury labels.
On the THR music
school list, The Juilliard School in New York City took top honors, followed by
Boston's Berklee College of Music, the University of Southern California at Los
Angeles, UCLA's Herb Alpert School of Music and the Oberlin Conservatory in
Ohio.
MTSU was No. 23 on
the list, just ahead of fellow music-business player Belmont University’s Curb
College of Entertainment and Music Business.
You can learn more
about MTSU’s recording industry program at http://recordingindustry.mtsu.edu.
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