September 15, 2003
From Music Row to Belmont: Why Don Cook teaches
Nashville record producer Don Cook, an adjunct faculty member at Belmont University's Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business, says he teaches at Belmont in part to change students' minds about the legality and ethics of online music trading. Today's Nashville City Paper has a profile of Cook at work in his Belmont classroom.
Don Cook confesses he’s no teacher. Instead of lecturing at a podium, he sits at eye level with his Belmont University students, arms crossed and leaning back in his chair, inviting an open dialog. It’s just two days after the Recording Industry of America filed 261 lawsuits against alleged illegal music pirates, and Cook wants to know what his students think of that. Cook knows where he stands. As one of Nashville’s most premier songwriters and producers - with success stories like Brooks and Dunn to his credit - he and fellow Music Row songwriters stand to lose royalty earnings because of illegal downloading. As an adjunct professor at the Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business at Belmont University, Cook says one of the reasons he’s teaching Music Distribution in the New Millennium is to change attitudes about downloading - one mind at a time.You can download the page of the paper with the story in a PDF file here.
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