Music: Professional Associations

The largest organization in the world representing the interests of professional musicians.

ASCAP is a membership association of over 200,000 U.S. composers, songwriters, lyricists, and music publishers of every kind of music.

The AOAA is an international organization incorporated as a nonprofit institution within the United States. Its mission is to represent college and university graduate and undergraduate programs in arts administration, encompassing training in the management of visual, performing, literary, media, cultural and arts service organizations.

IASPM is an international organization established to promote inquiry, scholarship and analysis in the area of popular music.

Musical America has developed the most advanced search in the international performing arts industry. Click on the tabs below to identify the managers, artists, presenters, businesspeople, organizations and media who make up the worldwide performing arts community.