Coventry University is setting up an 'e-music degree' - a degree in how to distribute and promote music online.
How can you do a degree in how to upload stuff to MySpace?
Where do the teachers come from - the internet has been a mainstream medium for around six years, maximum. Who can claim to know more than the people who have grown up through the system?
I doubt the contacts that Coventry University offer their prospective students are very strong - MySpace UK has about thirty staff, up from one at the beginning of the year.
Looks to me like a waste of time for whoever does it. Their best option is to ignore the course and use the student loan to fund their time making music.
The internet is a good distribution option for good music . Student's time would be best spent learning how to make good music rather than learning how to distribute the end product. I also think it will be tough for any university or teacher to show people how to make good music. If you're composing, you've either got it or you don't (in my opinion)
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