Nostalgia Interviews With Chris Deacy

Anna Neale is my latest Nostalgia Interview guest, and it was a huge pleasure to meet up with Anna who is a music industry professional. Anna is an artist, songwriter, composer, engineer and producer, she has toured the world, and released three albums. Anna has also served on various music industry committees including the Ivors and has been in the music industry for 20 years.  Anna, who is based at the University of Kent, talks about how academia is a form of performance and how there are other industry professionals who have made a similar journey into academia. She compares putting out an album to putting out a research paper. Anna’s research focuses on songwriting in industry practice, and she talks about how she has always been business savvy. She also examines the implications of technology on songwriting and discusses how we are living in an attention economy – where time, not money, is what is precious. There is a disassociation now between the artist and the fan, and Anna talks about how th