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Dean Don Bowyer, Chair of The College Music Society's Music Business-Industry committee, describes its mission as "exploring ways that academia and the music industry can partner to share resources, generate ideas, and collaborate with one another." These two defining aspects of our enterprise - the commercial music world and the musical academy - and their interaction provide an overarching framework for contributions to Music Business and Industry component of Symposium. Topics germane to college programs in Music Production, Recording, Film Scoring, Music Technology (including related video and web topics), Business and Entrepreneurship will be considered for publication.

Three levels of specificity can be suggested: 

• The first is a general discussion of education-industry issues with little technical detail. A wonderful example will be found in Dean Robert Cutietta’s article which will be included in the release of Symposium, “Why is there such a mismatch between academia and the music products industry?”  It includes an account of his “secret life” as a gigging popular musician. Here, too, we can all benefit from discussions focused on fundamental artistic issues affected by the interaction between the academy and the music industry.
• The second is a global view of technical matters, where details support a larger point. This might include such things as the effect of a particular method of distribution on musical form (e.g., the wide availability of printed scores and the rise of the orchestra); a comparison of musical style, such as the relationship of improvisation in the work of C. P. E. Bach and contemporary jazz and popular musicians; or the use of Schenkerian graphs to explain the artistry of the Beatles. In articles such as this, technical detail is discussed and serves to support a larger point about its effect on the art of music.
• The third is a detailed, technical discussion of topics relevant to a particular education-industry discipline, such as accounting procedures in setting up a non-profit, the benefits of recording at a 192kHz sample rate, an evaluation of the use of a Blumlein stereo pair of microphones in orchestral recording, or the use of Jitter in live multi-media performance. Where there is a substantial constituency in the academy for a highly technical treatment of an important issue, then there is room for such an article here in Symposium.

The title of the 2012 CMS Summit held in conjunction with the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) show in Anaheim, CA was titled "Untapped Collaborations: Synergies between the Music Products Industry and the Education of the Next Generation of Musicians." This theme provides many areas for commentary especially relevant to MBI studies. Some possible topics include:

• How does one reconcile the musical style and technology current in the Music Industry with traditional conservatory environment? How does one explain these issues to a Euro-centric conservatory-based administrator?
• Can MBI studies be a lifeline to traditional music programs that, like symphony orchestras, have been challenged by falling enrollments? What are the universal characteristics that they share?
• What type of employment does the current state of the Music Industry offer for our graduates? How do our ancient traditions interface with current popular music style and performance? How do we train the next generation of musicians to take advantage of this source of income?

Symposium welcomes submissions from all musicians, inside and outside the academy.  Our efforts are geared not only toward the academy, but also to independent musicians, professional musicians, and other interested parties in and out of the music industry per se. Thus, please write with a general audience in mind.  I invite you to review the Guidelines for Authors to learn more about  writing for Symposium, and, of course, to respond to the Call for Submissions whenever you are ready to submit an article for consideration.

Your submissions are welcome at any time.  Please feel free to contact me with any questions.

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Music Business-Industry
Clinical Assistant Professor of Music Composition and Technology
Director, IPFW/Sweetwater Music Technology Program
Music Department
Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne
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Editorial Board, Music Business-Industry

Chris Rutkowski, Chair
Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne

Don Bowyer
Arkansas State University

Frank Clark
Georgia Tech University

Asa Doyle
Groove 3, Inc.

Mitch Gallagher
Sweetwater Sound, Inc.

C. Tayloe Harding, Jr.
University of South Carolina

Sanford Hinderlie
Loyola University

Leon Janikian
Northeastern University

V. J. Manzo
Worcester Polytechinc Institute

Konrad Strauss
Indiana University

Andrew Surmani
Alfred Music Publishing

Kim Wangler
Appalachian State University