1. How We Chose Our Majors:
Arts, Entertainment and Media Management
Concentration: Music Business/ Management
By: Angelica Delgado and Diana Obracaj

2. What is Music Business/ Management?
• Represent one or more musical groups/ artists and oversee
all aspects of an act's career.
o Business decisions and creative decisions
o Manage the look, sounds and persona of an artist.
o Marketing, booking, record relations, tours
• What’s needed?
o Soft and hard Skills
• Creativity, multi-tasking, open-minded, good
communications
• Finances, music industry (record labels, current
trends, venues), economics, marketing,

3. What does music
mean to us?
“Anyone who understands how
standing in a crowd of sweaty people,
elbow to elbow, screaming along to the
words embedded in your heart, can
give you the most happiness ever
needed. When you’re shoved against a
sea of bodies and you don’t know what
sweat actually belongs to you or your
neighbor, you can barely breathe and
in that moment, your favorite song
starts playing and you forget about
everything: all you’re concerned with
is the melody, rhythm, and beat of the
song. All you care about is singing
your heart out and knowing it’s okay to
love something maybe a little too
much as long as it’s real to you.”
-Gerard Way, singer

4. How we discovered this major: Diana
• Love of the craft.
o Have been going to concerts since I’ve been young.
• Saw the passion and interaction between the artists and the fans
o Have an eclectic variety of music.
• Starting writing on my high school newspaper.
o Focused on Arts and Entertainment reviews.
o Became Arts and Entertainment Editor my senior year.
o I could see myself working in that industry, the business side of music.
• I had a very personable high school counselor.
o Discussed my interests and that I wanted to stay local.
o Provided me with pamphlets on the school.
o Since my junior year I knew this was the school and the path for me.

5. How we discovered this major:
Angelica
• Always interested in music.
o Attended a lot of shows, drawn into the craft of music
o Fans of the managers of my favorite band.
• Wanted to do the behind the scenes of local bands
• Presentations of colleges at my high
school.
o Columbia was there one day.
• Emphasized their Music Business/Management major.
• Really excited that a major existed for what I wanted.
• There was no other option.

6. Where we are now
At Columbia College
• Our passion only grows.
o Everyone is working towards their goals.
• Our favorite classes are our major
classes.
o The teachers are so helpful and knowledgeable.
• They get us excited about our futures.
o School work isn’t a drag.
• Real life examples and sample work that we’d do in our
future careers. (Marketing a concert)
o Perfect networking opportunities