Name: Anonymous 2008-01-23 0:13
I was wondering if anyone knew anything about the possibility of going for a PhD for Music to become a professor?
I'm not dumb enough to live the life of a "starving artist" that based on the crappy mainstream probably won't make it, but I still love music (more specifically, the Blues). I'm great but that shit generally isn't mainstream, and I currently do it as more of a hobby then anything, and I can't spend as much time as I might normally like on it because of my other science studies in college.
Is it worth going into music and getting a PhD to become a professor in it (which is at least a pretty solid job to get at that point especially since I'll probably be good at it since I have the initial talent + love for it and can invest so much time in it at that point), or should I just forget it?
(sidenote: I know several instruments and can sing at least well enough to do backup, and have had music education since elementary school, being able to sight read and having some basic Music Theory knowledge, so I do have some background. Not just talking out of my ass ``durr i liek music")
I'm not dumb enough to live the life of a "starving artist" that based on the crappy mainstream probably won't make it, but I still love music (more specifically, the Blues). I'm great but that shit generally isn't mainstream, and I currently do it as more of a hobby then anything, and I can't spend as much time as I might normally like on it because of my other science studies in college.
Is it worth going into music and getting a PhD to become a professor in it (which is at least a pretty solid job to get at that point especially since I'll probably be good at it since I have the initial talent + love for it and can invest so much time in it at that point), or should I just forget it?
(sidenote: I know several instruments and can sing at least well enough to do backup, and have had music education since elementary school, being able to sight read and having some basic Music Theory knowledge, so I do have some background. Not just talking out of my ass ``durr i liek music")