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The Texas Music Office (TMO) is a state-funded business promotion office and information clearinghouse for the Texas music industry.〔(Office of the Governor Rick Perry ). Retrieved 2011-10-18.〕 It is headquartered in the State Insurance Building in Austin.〔(Texas Facilities Commission ). Retrieved 2011-10-18.〕 More than 14,000 individual clients use TMO resources and assistance each year, including more than 8,600 direct referrals to Texas music businesses, performers, and event planners.〔(Fiscal Size-up: 2010-2011 Biennium ). Legislative Budget Board Staff.〕 The TMO is the sister office to the Texas Film Commission, both of which are within the Office of the Governor. ==History== By creating the Texas Music Commission (TMC) in 1985, the 70th session of the Texas Legislature identified music as an industry in need of state government recognition and assistance.〔(Texas Archival Resources Online ). Texas Department of Commerce, Executive Office: An Inventory of Records at the Texas State Archives, 1985-1991 (bulk 1988-1991). Retrieved 2011-10-18.〕 The TMC was a nine-member advisory board appointed by the Governor Mark White that held hearings for and issued annual reports to the Legislature.〔(Texas Bar CLE ). 7–8 October 2010. 20th Annual Entertainment Law Institute. Austin: State Bar of Texas.〕 Its primary advocate was House Speaker Gib Lewis, whose staff, notably Bekki Lammert, handled the support for the volunteer Commission's nine members. This was the first law passed by a state legislature in the United States creating an office promoting commercial music business.〔Relating to the promotion of the music industry in this state, HB 1107, 69th R.S. (1985).〕〔Relating to the promotion of the music industry in this state; creating the Texas Music Commission and prescribing its powers and duties; creating the music commission fund and appropriating it to the commission, SB 140, Acts 1985, 69th R.S., ch. 286.〕〔Dallas Morning News, 7 June 1985, "High Note for Texas Music."〕〔Houston Chronicle, 3 May 1985, "Senate OKs state music panel."〕 The Austin Music Industry Council initiated and the Texas Legislature in 1987 appropriated $25,000 to the new Texas Department of Commerce (TDC) to further research the music industry and to determine the best way for a state entity to assist music business development.〔 In 1988 TDC partially funded Texas' first Group Stand at MIDEM, at that time the world's largest music business convention, consisting of various Texas music businesses presenting their music at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France.〔Houston Chronicle, 29 January 1987, "Music panel boosts Texas groups."〕 The TMC recommended the creation of a staffed office in the Executive branch promoting music business as a sister office to the Texas Film Commission (TFC). As part of the TDC budget, the Texas Legislature passed a new law that stated, "(a) The office shall promote the development of the music industry in the state by informing members of that industry and the public about the resources available in the state for music production."〔Texas Government Code §485.004〕〔VACS Art. 4413 (301) §8.001〕 In September 1989, the TFC appropriated $39,000 for music and posted a job notice for the first director of the TMO. TFC Director Joseph Dial and Deputy Director Tom Copeland selected Casey Monahan, a music journalist with the Austin American-Statesman since 1985.〔(Austin 360.com ). 12 May 2005, Joe Gross, "The Fortune 500: Music Stars, People in tune with the Austin music social scene." Retrieved 2011-10-18.〕 The TMO officially opened January 20, 1990 during the administration of Texas Governor William P. Clements. During its first year the TMO interviewed more than 1,000 music businesses and compiled Texas' first Business Referral Network for music. In January 1991, Ann Richards was sworn in as Texas Governor. One of her first legislative requests was to move the TMO and the TFC from the Texas Department of Commerce to the Office of the Governor. Richards' longtime personal interest in Texas music and film greatly raised the public profile of both industries, and bringing these two programs into the Governor's Office institutionalized music and film as key parts of Texas' future economic growth plans.〔(Ann W. Richards Papers, 1933-2000 (part 7) ). Finding aid at the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved 2011-10-18.〕 Other Richards music milestones include publishing the first Texas Music Industry Directory (1991), and her "Welcome to Texas" speech to the opening-day registrants of the 1993 South By Southwest conference.〔(Austin-American Statesman ). 14 September 2006, Sarah Linder, "Richards was a Friend of Texas Film."〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Texas Music Office」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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