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View Poll Results: Which combination for music executive position? | |
Major: Music History, Composition, Theory / Minor: Finance
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Major: Economics / Minor: Finance
|    | 24 | 68.57% | |
Major: Economics / Minor: Music Performance (Double Bass)
|    | 4 | 11.43% | |
Major: Mathematics / Minor: Finance
|    | 0 | 0% | |
Major: Mathematics / Minor: Music Performance (Double Bass)
|    | 1 | 2.86% |
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05-16-2008, 10:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Long Island, NY | | | I want to run Sony Records. Which academic route should I take?
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I'll be attending Princeton University and I chose these major/minor combinations. Which do you think would be most suitable for a music executive position? I pretty much have my mind set on having an influence on the music industry. Oh yeah, there's also a minor in Statistical and Computational Mathematics.
Grad school is also an option.
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05-16-2008, 10:26 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Seweracuse, NY | | | Screw sony.
Find a music industry that will work for the new era of music...Old school record companies are a thing of the past.
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05-16-2008, 10:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Long Island, NY | | Quote:
Originally Posted by BurningSkies  Screw sony.
Find a music industry that will work for the new era of music...Old school record companies are a thing of the past. | hmm. any specific suggestions? |
05-16-2008, 10:29 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Madison, NJ | | | It's a business first and foremost. The job of a business is to succeed. You need that basis in your education before anything.
You certainly do NOT need a math degree nor a performance degree. Economics/finance I'd say, but even better Management and double minor in economics and accounting. This is what I'm doing.
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05-16-2008, 10:29 PM
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05-16-2008, 10:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Long Island, NY | | Quote:
Originally Posted by tplyons It's a business first and foremost. The job of a business is to succeed. You need that basis in your education before anything.
You certainly do NOT need a math degree nor a performance degree. Economics/finance I'd say, but even better Management and double minor in economics and accounting. This is what I'm doing. | Sweet! That sounds really good. I would like to incorporate music into my education though. Maybe I can major in Music History Composition and Theory, minor in Finance, and then go to business school for management?
I don't mind going to school for an extra 3 years. |
05-16-2008, 10:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Madison, NJ | | Quote:
Originally Posted by natselection Sweet! That sounds really good. I would like to incorporate music into my education though. Maybe I can major in Music History Composition and Theory, minor in Finance, and then go to business school for management?
I don't mind going to school for an extra 3 years. | You will when you start paying off your loans.
I just looked... I'm $120,000 in debt with a year to go. Looks like I'm living with my parents for years.
I came into school as a double major in management and performance. I soon realized that I could separate academics from art, not get a formal education in music and still be a talented and knowledgeable musician.
Have you considered that?
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05-16-2008, 11:02 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Harpers Ferry WV | | | The music industry is run by adult children. Forget school, start schmoozing. |
05-17-2008, 12:36 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Ontario | | | Get your business degree first, get your stuff together. Then, when you're running Sony Records*, go on sabbatical and get your music degree.
*Post-loan, financially-stable-adult-in-college kind of thing. Because you did so much previous schooling you'll only have music classes. Go in, jam, rehearse, go home to your family. Music school's a blast, but it's not going to help you in the record business.
Get an internship at Sony for school.
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05-17-2008, 01:04 AM
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05-17-2008, 01:26 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Miami, FL | | | Out of your list I chose Economics/Finance... I would add an MBA. Business first, pleasure comes after you have the financials in check.
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05-17-2008, 02:58 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Minnesota | | | Yup, it's all bidness where you wanna be. Any advanced music knowledge that you think you'll pick up from going to a music school isn't gonna help you be a financial success (a term i use to mean breaking even).
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05-17-2008, 06:49 AM
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Maker of HPF-Pre upright bass preamp | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Madison WI | | | Look up the bio's of Fortune 500 CEO's. It is not a given that a company like Sony would hire a music industry insider to be their CEO.
Math? People major in math because they love math. Plain and simple. If you love math, it would be a shame to stop learning more about it. Math and finance might be good.
Music? Likewise. People major in music because they love music, regardless of the financial consequences. The difference between math and music is that there are higher paying math related jobs.
I majored in math. |
05-17-2008, 06:57 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: London, UK | | economics, and then start a private equity company... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMI#Terra_Firma_takeover
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05-17-2008, 09:03 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Home of Bootsy and FreekBass | | Is there such a thing as a degree in being a weasel 
I was once surprised at how little, high level execs often don't know about the actual nuts and bolts of the companies they head. Although still befudled, I no longer am so surprised.
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05-17-2008, 09:25 AM
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05-17-2008, 10:22 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Long Island, NY | | | i heard that business firms like to have diverse majors...i'm really into music so I thought that having a music major paired with a finance degree could be both enjoyable and practical.
i can always go to business school for another degree to boost up my management skills...hmm... |
05-17-2008, 10:42 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Orlando | | | Undergrad REALLY doesn't matter besides getting you into grad school. And trust me, you'd be doing nothing but cleaning toilets at Sony with a bachelor's degree. Go the economics path and then look to a top 10 business school (top 5). Congrats on Princeton. It sure is a bitch to get into. I loved the campus and the programs there. But alas, they saw fit that some other students from my school got in instead of me. Not like I could afford it anyway.
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05-17-2008, 10:45 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Los Angeles | | | Standard Oil of New York eh?
One thing I can tell you is they aren't going to hire you based on your education. It may be reassuring to them that you attended college, but the truth is you need to cultivate proper connections to achieve that sort of status.
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05-17-2008, 10:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Visirale Undergrad REALLY doesn't matter besides getting you into grad school. And trust me, you'd be doing nothing but cleaning toilets at Sony with a bachelor's degree. Go the economics path and then look to a top 10 business school (top 5). Congrats on Princeton. It sure is a bitch to get into. I loved the campus and the programs there. But alas, they saw fit that some other students from my school got in instead of me. Not like I could afford it anyway. | Do you think economics would be a good choice? it's one of the most popular majors there | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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