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The magic of sound
There's a great range of different jobs and careers in the huge music industry. You might see yourself as a rock star or a concert pianist but you could be a producer, an arranger, a publisher, or a music journalist.

What's it like in the music industry?
What are the prospects for performers?
And what about composing?
How do you get a job as a music producer or an A&R person?
What about a career in music publishing?

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Interviews
Useful organisations
Useful books
The Virgin Buide to How To Make it in the Music Business, Sian Patterson, Virgin Publishing 2000
Careers in Music, Kogan Page 1997
Q&A: Music, Trotman 2001
Careers Opportunities in the Music Industry, Shelly Field, Facts on File Inc 2000
Careers in Music, Ruth Yockney and Mark Edgley Smith, Kogan Page 1999

Useful magazines
Websites showing Music