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though i am no friend of degrees for the sake of degrees for unmotivated people, i think if you know exactly what you want a degree would be most helpful. you should really go for it.

my suggestion would be a double major in musicology and creative writing. or a major or a minor. or something like that. why? let me explain...

i have a BA in creative writing-- most fun getting it, and it gives you decent training, but when you look for a job as a writer you discover that with the explosion of the publishing industry most non-fiction writing tends to be niche-oriented, very specialized. and if you know nothing but literature, well, nobody wants to read about that shit, except for subscribers to the new york review of books. so, as a writer, what do you write ABOUT? that's the difficult part & that's where the musicology degree comes handy for you. it will give you a deeper understanding of music, a greater sense of history, and other useful tools for your articles, besides exposing you to a bit of philosophy and other tasty things.

finally, the rest of your degree-- your "electives"-- will help you relate music to other fields of culture or study, whether it be history or painting or theatre or film or what not. the so-called "liberal arts" education that comes together with a striped paper hat (ha) can actually be very useful for any kind of writer.

this i recommend as a vicarious "academic advisor" and obsessive reader. i have no direct contact with the music writing profession itself, but for that i think people have already given you advice here. keep writing throughout your studies and line up some sort of job before you even graduate.

best wishes etc etc...