• The module aims to identify the skills necessary to advance careers, whether as a musician or within a music company of some kind.
• The module aims to inform student musicians of 'what to expect' should they pursue music as a career into the future.
• It aims to introduce students who might want to work in music industry of the types of specialisms available to them and the role demands of each specialism.

(LO1) Communication Skills - In completing the module including the assessed components the student should become aware of and able to identify the centrality of informal communication in music industry. The relevant academic communication skills should also be enhanced. The student should also have developed and demonstrated formal written communication in the form of a CV and cover letter.

(LO2) Research Skills - especially with regard to the second assignment, a student's ability to research contemporary music-industrial practice should be improved by satisfactory completion of the module.

(LO3) Comprehension - the material encountered in the course of the module requires that an individual student's ability to interpret data of contrasting provenance should be improved.

(LO4) Critical Thinking - The field is a challenging one and critical thinking is essential to understanding the co-existence of formal and informal elements operationalised in the creation of commercial music outcomes.

(LO5) Writing Skills - The writing skills of students will develop through engaging with differing assignment tasks; the organisation of a case study involves expressive abilities that are in some ways distinct from those involved in responding to an assignment title.

(LO6) Applied Skills - music industry is a fast-moving and protean field given its now deep implication with the internet and information technology, more widely. Analysing music's entanglement with not simply music companies but media, internet and IT companies develops the skills associated with media analysis.

(LO7) IT Skills - a student's IT skills are enhanced by needing to explore the wide range of practices that are engaged when music companies (and independent musicians) seek a mutually-satisfying commercial relationship with actual and potential customers. It is the co-ordination of musical offer across multiple platforms that defines music business success under current conditions.

(LO8) Maths Skills - music companies all seek profit from adding value to the work of musicians. In an online environment, data of all kinds are generated that can contribute to the strategies employed by music companies and by individual musicians. Understanding, for example, how individual access to a music 'stream' generates a royalty must necessarily draw on and stimulate the individual's ability to apply mathematical knowledge and understanding.

(LO9) Employability Skills - Employabilty skills should be greatly enhanced through satisfactory completion of the module. Music industry is an opaque field and modular content is aimed to dispel this opacity. Students are empowered professionally by being encouraged to develop an understanding of the specific blends of informal and formal behaviours associated with generating commercial music outcomes (recordings, licences and performances).

(S1) Learning and Study Skills.

(S2) Research Skills.

(S3) Information and Digital Literacy.

(S4) Employability Skills.

(S5) Writing Skills.

(S6) Applied Skills.

(S7) Maths Skills.

What is industrial about music?

Musicians and Industry.

Record Companies and the value they add.

Music Publishers and Collection Societies.

Live Agents and Promoters.

Do-it-Yourself and its limitations.

Artist Managers. Music Contracts - Recording, Artist Management, Publishing, Live Performance.

Music and the Internet.

Music and Branding.

Promotions and Marketing.

Modular content will emphasise the 'doing' of tasks; the inter-relations these become part of; the need for musicians to understand that they must not only negotiate appropriate 'deals', but they must also monitor them. In these ways, the module adds 'flesh' to the 'bones' represented by the first year industry module, but will be sufficiently free-standing to make it unnecessary to have studied music industry in the first year.

Teaching Method: Lecture
Description: Presentation and class tasks that explore the module content
Attendance Recorded: Yes - paper register and transferred onto TULIP
notes
Notes: Students are expected to spend 1 hour weekly engaging with online and weekly trade press and blog materials and an average of 2 hours weekly engaging with the wider music industry by attending/performing gigs etc.

Teaching Method: Seminar
Description: Practical tasks and discussions that relate to the lecture topics and preparing the students to deliver the assessment tasks.
Attendance recorded: Yes - paper register and transferred onto TULIP
notes
Notes: Students are expected to spend an average of 2 hours per week reading and preparing material for presentation in the seminars and assessment tasks and reading texts from the reading list.

Self-directed Learning: Self-directed learning will take several forms:
1: The Careers Service have a subscription to &# x27;Yourmusicbusiness.co.uk'. This site offers useful discussions of all music industry specialisms. Students will be expected, in their own time, to work their way through this site.
2: The library subscribes to key music trade press journals. Students will be expected to stay abreast of music industry topics and discussions in their own time.