Music Industry Faculty
Armand Petri
Director, Music Industry Program
MUSB 201- The Business of Music
MUSB 301- Music Copyright
MUSB 320- Music Contracts
MUSB 420- Student Record Label
MUSB 425- Music Marketing and Promotion
MUSB 465- Music Business Internship
Biography:
Armand Petri has over 25 years of experience in the music industry, encompassing fields of artist management, record and video production, and live sound. Working with artists such as the Goo Goo Dolls, Ten Thousand Maniacs, and Sixpence None the Richer, Petri’s accolades include several gold and platinum records, a Dove Award, and song placement in television and film.Deciding upon education as a new vocation, Petri received an M.A. in Arts Management from the University at Buffalo. Petri has designed a unique program for Fredonia that gives students the opportunity to learn about the industry both in the classroom and outside academia through internships. Petri combines his passion for music industry with his desire to educate, leading students into the future of the music industry.
Contact:
http://www.fredonia.edu/business/businessadministration/petri.asp
Music Industry Professors
Dr. Mojtaba Seyedian
Chair, Business Administration
Contact:
http://www.fredonia.edu/business/faculty/seyedian/
Dr. Shazad Mohammed, Business Administration
BUAD 342- Consumer Behavior
Contact:
http://www.fredonia.edu/business/businessadministration/mohammed.asp
Mrs. Judith Brady, Musicology
MUS 115- Music Appreciation
MUS 433- Romanticism in Music
MUS 457- Seminar in Popular Music
"As part of the musicology curriculum, MUS 115 and MUS 457 emphasize the lives and works of composers and performers as they negotiated their cultural climate through musical expression. For Music Industry majors, both of these classes offer analysis of music as a dynamic product of society stemming from the intention and inspiration of the composer/performer. MUS 115 surveys the Western Art Music traditions of Europe and the United States from 1300 until the present day, and MUS 457 focuses more intensely on popular music made during the 1960s in the United States and Great Britain. Instead of attention focused on how the music was made, these music history classes investigate the role music plays as an active agent in society, cultural events that can explain why the music was made, and the reception and consumption of music as a "product" in the public marketplace."
Contact:
http://www.fredonia.edu/music/faculty/bios/brady.asp
Dr. Paul Holmes, Economics
ECON 201- Principles of Microeconomics
ECON 202- Principles of Macroeconomics
"Economics is the study of how people make decisions about scarce resources - or 'how to do the best with what you've got'. Business make more profit, governments form better rules, and individuals have a better life when they make good choices about their scarce resources like time and money; economics teaches you useful principles to guide those choices. It also teaches you about how other people make those decisions, which is critical for making good choices."
Contact:
http://www.fredonia.edu/business/economics/holmes.asp
Dr. Linda Hall, Accounting
ACCT 201- Principles of Financial Accounting
ACCT 301- Principles of Managerial Accounting
"Whether you're an artist, producer, manager, promoter, agent, or any other entrepreneur in the music industry, you need to know if your projects have profit potential. Managerial accounting teaches you how to use financial and non-financial information to make timely business decisions. Financial accounting teaches you the basics of recording and reporting the results of your efforts in a language that everyone in the industry can understand."
Contact:
http://www.fredonia.edu/business/businessadministration/hall.asp
Adjunct Professors
Stuart Shapiro
Attorney; Cohen and Lombardo of Buffalo, NY.
MUSB 301- Music Copyright
MUSB 320- Music Contracts