Performing Arts Management
Main language of instruction: English
Head instructor
Lc. José ZAPATA - pepezapata@uic.es
Office hours
Upon request and coordination
Pepe Zapata pz.pepezapata@gmail.com
Jose Sanchis jsanchis.obc@auditori.cat
Music industry finds itself at a crossroad. Main actors and artist’s status has shifted dramatically over the last years. While music education and specific live concert events are boosting, recording industry and traditional promoters and festivals are facing a major crisis. The industry needs to redefine main actors’ role and detect new tendencies and tools for managing this new scenario.
Within a rapidly changing domestic and international environment, the work of arts and cultural managers is becoming more complex and significant. The creative industries are growing rapidly and patterns of cultural work are changing. Cultural organisations and festivals are in a period of fundamental, pervasive and long-term change; managers must deal with a host of dramatic, often contradictory, demands and challenges. Through encouraging you to become critically reflective, the course will develop your knowledge of the contemporary issues affecting the management of arts organisations and festivals.
A passion for arts and culture, a solid educational background, and a desire to deepen these fields of interest and understand them in a professional context.
A general background of cultural history and specifically music history will be helpful.
- To deliver a general framework of global tendencies in music management.
- To develop leadership skills and inside knowledge for a highly competitive and complex business.
- To learn dealing with artistic capital and talent.
- To provide the students with a theoretical framework.
- Definition of the business structure and strategies in arts administration. Identification of processes and procedures involved in its creation, programming, management and production.
- Correct decodification of industry context, actors and momentum, that operate as inspiration or guide for own projects.
- Apply the acquired knowledge and abilities to solve problems in new or unfamiliar environments within multidisciplinary contexts
Basic competences
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To have and understand knowledge which provides a grounding or opportunity to be original in terms of development and/or application of ideas, often in a research-based context. |
2. |
To know how to apply the knowledge acquired and the ability to resolve problems in new or little known environments within broader or multidisciplinary contexts related to the area of study. |
General competencies
3. |
To know how to communicate, encourage and mediate between the various agents who take part in a project, programme or cultural service. |
4. |
To act responsibly, and produce good quality rigorous and efficient work that is placed at the service of society. |
Cross-disciplinary competencies
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To design, direct, produce and evaluate projects, programmes, strategies, policies or cultural actions which involve a wide variety of different professional profiles, agents and institutions. |
Specific competence
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To identify business structures in creative cultural industries at a global level and manage the processes and work procedures involved in their creation, programming, management and production. |
The student knows how to communicate, encourage and mediate between the various agents who take part in a project, programme or cultural service.
The student knows how to act responsibly, and produce good quality rigorous and efficient work that is placed at the service of society.
The student knows how to identify business structures in creative cultural industries at a global level and manage the processes and work procedures involved in their creation, programming, management and production.
Theatre management:
Music management
1. Introduction to music management.
2. Reality of the sector.
3. Presenting music-venues.
4. Actors.
5. Analysis management structures.
6. Festivals.
7. Guests professors will give a more detailed view of some of the sectors like, private promoters, festival programmers, executive producers or agents.
Theatre management:
Music management
Theatre management:
Music managment:
To come with the final mark of the subject two short written essais will be needed. The result will add up to 70 % of the final mark
25 % will be from class participation
The best students, that is to say those with the best marks on the written part and that have taken part actively in the classes will be entitled to add a 5% extra to their mark.
Theatre management:
http://www.wallacefoundation.org/knowledge-center/Documents/ Taking-Out- theGuesswork.pdf.
Music management: