Loyola University New Orleans Launches Urban and Electronic Music Production Degree | Loyola Press Release - Loyola University New Orleans

Loyola University New Orleans inform, One-of-a-Kind Undergraduate Degree Program Honors Culture, History, Music, and Industry Skills of Hip-Hop.

Urban and Electronic Music Production Program at Loyola University New Orleans

Aspiring producers, studio engineers, rap artists, singers, and musicians can now hone essential professional music industry skills through a new Urban and Electronic Music Production undergraduate degree program launching at Loyola University New Orleans in Fall 2019. Taught within the university’s celebrated College of Music and Fine Arts, the bachelor of science degree is the first of its kind in the country and allows students to develop valuable and relevant skill sets in production and performance that translate widely to the ever-changing modern music industry, while mastering the latest technology in the university’s state-of-the-art recording studios and studying with industry professionals in Loyola’s acclaimed Music Industry Studies program.

“It’s been 45 years since the birth of hip-hop, so it’s exciting to finally see academia focusing on the genres at the forefront of modern American pop,” said Lovell “U-P” Cooper, a New Orleans-based and Grammy-award-winning hip-hop producer and Loyola faculty member. “The great thing about this degree is that we make sure that the students not only get involved in performance and being creative with their music, lyric-writing, and productions. We also focus on their business skills and their learning the true business side of the music industry, while giving them a deep understanding of the hip-hop world and its lifestyle, history, and culture.”...

Like the university’s Popular and Commercial Music degree program, the new Urban and Electronic Music Production degree program at Loyola combines music technology, music production, and audio recording classes with courses covering the practices of the modern music business, said Kate Duncan, who currently leads the “PopComm” program at Loyola. Through regular music industry forums, students hear from campus visitors ranging from studio executives to artists...

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