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Want a job in the music industry? Think again.
In a recent poll, 20 percent of those surveyed said that they would trade their jobs for a gig in the music business. But album sales are declining and a saggy economy doesn't bode well for would-be rock stars. Today: A Soundcheck Smackdown debate over the risks and rewards of a music career. Also: the Washington-born, Zimbabwe-raised singer and mbira player known as Chiwoniso shares her new album, "Rebel Woman."
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Careers in the Music Business: Doomed or Dazzling?
With double-digit declines in album sales and darkening clouds on the fiscal horizon, the music business might seem a bad place to start a career. Yet a recent poll in the UK revealed that one-fifth of Brits would swap their jobs for one in the music industry. In another Soundcheck Smackdown, we debate the wisdom of planning a career in the recording industry. Joining us in studio are Dan Kennedy, author of the memoir Rock On: An Office Power Ballad, and Jason King, artistic director of NYU's Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music.
Tell us: Do you work in the music business? Is the future dazzling or doomed? What advice would you offer young people entering the business?
Soundcheck blog: John Schaefer on careers in the music business
Chiwoniso: A Rebel with a Cause
Pop singer Chiwoniso learned how to play the mbira, an African xylophone, despite the fact that women in her native Zimbabwe were not permitted to play the instrument. She joins us to talk about defying female stereotypes in her new album, "Rebel Woman," written from the eye storm of the political and economic turmoil in Zimbabwe.
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