The Music Business Journal is financially self-sufficient. We are grateful for the support we get from Berklee’s Office of Academic Affairs and Berklee Media, and ever appreciative of the seed money that came from Newbury Comics three years ago. In this issue, we have been able to support the travel of our own student correspondent to Billboard’s Mobile Music Conference in Las Vegas. The Journal has focused strongly on mobile music, and we are proud to present Mark Schafer’s views and account on the state of the mobile music market in our cover. This is the latest article in a series, and readers can refer to earlier offerings on the subject by checking www.TheMBJ.org. An excellent economics essay by student Matthew Freake, in our Model Work section, is also upbeat about the growing involvement of the Telecoms in the business and provides the necessary context to understand the changes that are afflicting recorded music.
Another correspondent, MB/M student Eyal Agai, writes to us from the Winter Electronica Music Conference in Miami, adding to our coverage of Dance and House music that we started in depth in our last issue. We also move to the other end of the spectrum. Ivonne Hernandez Rowbottom, a distinguished fiddle player and MBJ staffer, shares her extensive experience as a top performer in the Folk music scene, and informs on the business of folk music. Festivals are the true marketplaces for the genre, and Berklee alum Scott Bauer complements Hernandez Rowbottom with a piece on the 10,000 Lakes Festival in Detroit Lakes, MN. Finally, student Megan Hickman reflects on the music scene in Nashville, which she visited recently. Nashville, of course, is a formidable force in the music industry, reaching far beyond country music.

The practice of film scoring is changing dramatically as video games become a bigger revenue source than movies, and we thought that getting the story from a Berklee source would be practical and, in this instance, more than justified. Noelle Ventresca’s interview of Berklee’s recently appointed Chair of Film Scoring, Dan Carlin, is a tour de force for anyone contemplating scoring for film or video. Carlin won an Emmy for outstanding achievement in Music Editing and was nominated for another Emmy for outstanding achievement as Music Director. He is a Member and Chair Emeritus, Board of Trustees, of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (NARAS),
Other articles in this issues deal with environmental economics, online marketing techniques, and legal issues in the business. Professor Kevin Block-Schwenk follows up and expands on a green controversy that is affecting guitar manufactures, the MBJ’s own Ardie Farhadieh addresses new sales tactics in cyberspace, and Sarah DeMarco explains, for the record, the function of two collecting societies: The Harry Fox Agency and SoundExchange.
I hope you enjoy this issue as much as I have. I look forward to the approaching summer break, and would like to extend a warm “thank you” to all our readers and writers.

Sincerely,
Carlton W. Washington II