Please take note that all music majors must audition on a major instrument or voice part. Course offerings include study in music production and promotion, music business, and technology, all with an emphasis on entrepreneurship in the music industry. Majors and minors choose from a wide range of courses tailored to their interests, which serve as the foundation for later career growth and development. Majors take a core of music industry, business and traditional music courses. JMU offers both an undergraduate Music Industry Major and Minor. Graduates have launched careers at such diverse businesses as American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), BMG Music Publishing, Columbia Creative Services, Epic Records, Creative Artists Agency and Red Light Management, in locations from Charlottesville, VA to New York, Los Angeles and Nashville. Music industry graduates are creative managers and entrepreneurs whose most valuable asset is versatility in an industry that requires flexibility to think beyond the limitations of narrow vocational study.
The Music Industry program offers a broad course of study designed to meet the constantly changing requirements of a multi-faceted and protean industry.