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Women Entrepreneurs and the Business of Music 

Objective: To bring an understanding of the need to develop entrepreneurship attributes in order to find success in the Music Business and how to develop them. Specifically, comparisons to gender-based attributes and challenges.

Problem: Women continue to struggle in this male dominant industry and must develop a different set of entrepreneurial tools to take advantage of industry opportunities.

Current State: Women are now able to compete in a non-gender arena (the internet) and must manage these digital tools to balance the challenges inherit in this perceived gender-bias industry.

Proposal: Through the authors personal experience educating successful female students (grad and undergrad) and working as an entrepreneur in the music industry, this paper will help the reader or seminar attendee lay a foundation for themselves and those they interact with to develop an entrepreneurial approach to their participation in the Music Business specific to women in the Recording Industry.

Contributions: In that the music industry has moved to a more interactive environment, women can better manage their art or business and not have to compromise their artistic aesthetic or cater to gender driven attitudes to find success. Which in turn will contribute to the self-preservation of the artist-entrepreneur-arts manager.

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