Higher Music Education and Employability in a Neoliberal World
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Abstract
- This open access edited collection shows how neoliberalism continues to shape higher music education institutions, curricula design and learning cultures, as well as the various ways of transitioning from education to work and the world of uncertainty and job insecurity currently being experienced by a younger generation of musicians. The book brings together empirical studies, activist voices, theoretical reflections and autoethnographic studies from a broad range of disciplines, work contexts and geographical regions. These contributions examine how race/ethnicity, gender and class pervade the creation, performance and teaching of music and create the context for the reproduction of social inequalities. They also illuminate the notions of employability, entrepreneurialism and meritocracy that underpin higher music education and the music labour markets in Italy, Portugal, the Netherlands, Sweden, Estonia, Hungary, Finland, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and China, and provide insights into the strategies used by musicians to manage their precarious working lives. Finally, this collection specifically highlights alternative pedagogical approaches and activist tactics for moving forward in the era of Black Lives Matter, #StopAsianHate and #MeToo.
- Date Issued 2024
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Editors
Prokop, Rainer | University of Music and Performing Arts ViennaReitsamer, Rosa | University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
- DOI 10.5040/9781350266995
- Language en
- License CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
- Subjects social inequalities higher education labour market open access international education curriculum job security musicians gender class race ethnicity music performance discrimination equity empowerment
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