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Last month, NARM President Jim Donio and Bill Wilson, NARM’s Director of Digital Strategy & Business Development, came to lecture to the students in Professor Lauren Davis’s Introduction to the Music Business class.
NARM stands for the National Association of Recording Merchandisers. The non-for-profit trade association’s role is to “advance the promotion, marketing, distribution, and sale [...]

Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music instructor Vivien Goldman, who’s blessed us with innovative classes on Punk music, Reggae, and the history of Island Records, wrote a feature on multicultural British rock trio The Noisettes in today’s New York Times. You can read it here.
Vivien (pictured above on the left teaching a class, with famed [...]

 It’s not often we’re discussed in the context of fashion and glamor, but this summer The Clive Davis Department was glad to get a shout out in August’s fifth anniversary issue of T, the New York Times’ style magazine, distributed on Sundays.
The subject was legendary fashion stylist/costume designer Arianne Phillips (pictured above), who gave a [...]

With record sales in seemingly never-ending freefall and artist tours and music festivals breaking records, you can’t afford to sleep on the live event industry.
Kobi Wu-Pasmore, the former director of special events at Cornerstone Promotions (where she played a big role in developing the stellar Pharrell-Santigold-Julian Casablancas Converse campaign) and the former manager for artists [...]

Composer, music supervisor and sound designer Michael Whalen has scored over 500 television scores, feature and short films, including the opening theme to the ABC News morning show Good Morning America, music for The Oprah Winfrey Show, Martha Stewart and the news magazine Inside Edition.
He’s been nominated for eight Emmys® and picked up two, including [...]


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What I'm Doing...

  • our new Future Music Moguls workshop is underway...priority deadline to apply is October 16...see http://www.futuremusicmoguls.com 2009-09-24
  • thanks to all for a great Michael Jackson panel discussion last night....video will be coming soon for those who couldn't make it 2009-09-18
  • thursdays discussion panel on michael jackson panel is sold out....looks like michael fever hasnt died down yet 2009-09-16
  • exciting weekend....NYU Open House is Saturday...The VMAs on Sunday....and then Oprah with Whitney Houston on Monday...yes! 2009-09-11
  • theme of the day, should you walk into our lobby, is 80s pop classics....go Belinda Carlisle! 2009-09-08
  • we're up and blogging...and twittering now! 2009-09-08
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