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March 25, 2005

Moonlighting on Music Row

By PIPER FOGG

A dean tries to balance running a record label with leading a music-business college

Biography: James G. Van Hook

When Belmont University asked James G. Van Hook to lead its new college of entertainment and music business last year, the retired Nashville businessman set down his golf clubs. He had already made his name -- and fortune -- in the music industry, selling a top Christian-music label for more than

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