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JAZZ3631: Music Business Skills
2024 unit information
Music Business Skills is designed to prepare graduating students for the non-musical aspects of their forthcoming career. The unit is designed as an overview of the many different facets of the music industry, including setting up a small music business (including taxation overview and responsibilities), funding sources and alternatives, tour planning and budgeting, producing and designing promotional tools, dealing with record companies/music publishing, and other essential techniques and requirements of running a successful music business in today's competitive arts environment.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Jazz
| Code | JAZZ3631 |
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| Academic unit | Jazz |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. set up and run a music business as a legal entity
- LO2. view personal artistic practise as a business
- LO3. develop short, medium, and long term goals for your career
- LO4. demonstrate a general understanding of the value of self-promotion, and a general knowledge of techniques required to promote a music business
- LO5. demonstrate an awareness of key funding sources, and have a basic ability to access these sources in a competitive and professional manner
- LO6. self-design a project and grant application for your career, such as a tour, release, concert series or artistic development
- LO7. investigate ways of diversifying a performance income.
- LO8. Gain an overview of market trends and shifts in the music industry
Unit availability
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Normal day | Sydney |
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