Dr Michael Jones BA, Ph.D

My teaching Music Industry stretches back 20 years. Over that time I have needed to introduce and amend a range of modules at undergraduate and postgraduate level. There is a reason for each module and each modification but the consistent elements are that musicians either need to manage themselves or to be managed - because they are de facto businesses as well as 'artists'. And, because of this, they must always enter into legally-binding agreements, so the study of contracts is central to understanding music industry.

MBA:
The Recording Industry
Rights Ownership and Publishing
International Music Markets
Issues in On-line Music
Artist Management
Dissertation supervision

MA MIS:
The Recording Industry as a Cultural Industry
Music and the Legal System
Music Management
Music Industry
Music Contracts
Dissertation supervision

MA BCM
Audiences
Artistic Planning
Managing Classical Music
Working at the Philharmonic
Dissertation

BA
Music Intermediaries
Pop Acts
Music as Intellectual Property
Music and Commerce
SOTA 300 (work placement module – Music Dept. component)
Working in Music Industry
Dissertation/Project supervision

Politics is never far from music because music exists as a fundamental form of commentary on its social and cultural contexts of composition and production. At different times I have taught versions of a module with the title Music and Politics.

As a former songwriter I retain a strong sense of pop composition, notably song-lyrics and how they need to work with and within musical settings. I have introduced and taught two songwriting modules:

Song-writing and Symbolic Goods
Song-writing