- Communication and Media Research Institute
About me
Sally Anne Gross is both a music industry practitioner and an academic. In 1993 she was the first women to work as a director of Artist and Repertoire at Mercury Records UK, and in the same year she chaired the first ever panel on women in the music industries at ‘In The City’ music conference in Manchester. Sally Anne has been working in the music industry for nearly three decades, as an artist manager, record label director and international business affairs consultant. In her current role at the University of Westminster, she is the program director of the MA Music Business Management where she teaches Intellectual Property and Copyright Management, Artist & Repertoire and Music Development. In 2016 she founded ‘Let’s Change the Record’ a project that focuses on bridging the gender divide in music production by running inclusive audio engineering and song-writing workshops for people identifying as women or non-binary. Sally-Anne is the co-author of ‘Can Music Make You Sick’ the largest ever study into mental health in the music industry that was funded by the charity Help Musicians UK and published in November 2017. She is interested in working practices in the music industries and the conditions of digital labour and specifically how they impact on questions of diversity and equality. Sally-Anne has four grown up children all of whom work one way or another with music, and although she always identifies as a ‘native’ Londoner, she actually lives in North Hertfordshire.
Teaching
Sally teaches on several of the University of Westminster music degrees at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. She has been a visiting lecturer and professor in residence in Norway, Germany and France, as well as teaching on many music industry courses over the years. Her subjects range from artist development and artist management, Copyright management and Intellectual Property. As well as running more practical workshops on setting up an independent music label, to international touring and marketing.Sally is also the founder of Let's Change the Record workshops that address issues of gender equality in the music industries.
Research
Labour relations in the music industry - in sickness and in health. Gender inequality in the business of music and music production. Big data - what do the numbers really tell us? The politics of cultural production.
Publications
For details of all my research outputs, visit my WestminsterResearch profile.