The wide-ranging company's endeavors include a partnership with Warner Records Nashville. Mabe sees Joan of Arc as focusing on core values of country music that have been lost amid 'coastal legitimizing' and a response to 'how little so many coming to the industry care about the sheer magic in music.'
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Kevin Wimpy Cindy Mabe, one of the most prominent execs in country music, has been quiet since stepping down from her job as chair and CEO of Universal Music Nashville early last year. Fourteen months later, she has revealed ambitious plans as founder-CEO of a multifaceted new company, Joan of Arc Music, dedicated to upholding the old-school values of the country music business while building careers within the industry’s emerging new paradigms.
Mabe was upheld by many as the most powerful woman ever to have come through the Nashville music industry to hold long-term top executive positions in the major label system. Her staffing for the new company appears to pay that pioneering forward with all five of the execs who have been announced to be joining her at Joan of Arc being women, several of them fellow veterans of UMG Nashville who have followed her to the new company.
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