Join us today as we catch up with Dr. Sarita Stewart, an Associate Professor of Creative and Entertainment Industries, at Belmont University. We cover so much territory in this industry, including how a young girl from a very small town in Oregon wound up making it big in Los Angeles and then Nashville. She tells us all about the dreams she had as a young child working in the music industry (behind the scenes and not behind the mic) and how that all evolved into working with some of the biggest names in the music industry while in LA and then how, after earning her MBA, she was drawn to Nashville where she had even greater involvement with some of the biggest country stars. She's paid it all forward teaching her students at Belmont about music production, music publicity and how to the in-front-of-camera stars maintain their relevance. But, that's only a part of what Sarita does. As an entertainment researcher, Dr. Stewart continues to focus upon varied research interests, including music consumption, video games, artist fandom, and mood management.  She has several published book chapters, including an essay on LeAnn Rimes’ album Blue in Please Allow Me To Introduce Myself: Essays on Debut Albums(Ashgate).  Her most recent book chapter, “TV, Radio, and Music Research,” written in collaboration with Dr. Louisa Ha of Bowling Green University and Jeff Green of Stone Door Media Lab, was published in Research Methods in Communication (Third Edition) (Vision Press).

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