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Professor James E. Hearn is Instructor of Music at the University of North Alabama. Hearn's academic credentials came attached to a bass rig and a tool belt. In his early days, growing up in Jackson, Tennessee, Hearn played bass in local bands and was active in the church (his first professional gig was backing a gospel choir), where he would sometimes share a pew with rockabilly legend Carl Perkins.

Hearn has a Bachelor of Music from the University of Memphis and a Masters in Mass Communication from Middle Tennessee State University, where he acquired a string of audio engineering credits, coordinated local production crews at Nashville sheds, and taught within the Department of Recording Industry. Professor Hearn comes to UNA from McNally Smith College of Music in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he taught production and business courses.

Professor Hearn has international teaching experience and routinely presents and publishes his original research at national and international conferences. His research interests include small business growth in the music business and recording studio marketing and management.