Expanding Professionalism in Music and Higher Music Education - A Changing Game

Heidi Westerlund, Helena Gaunt

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    Abstract

    This book addresses the need to rethink the concept and enactment of professionalism in music, and how such concepts underpin professional higher music education. There is an urgent imperative to enable the potential of professional musicians in our contemporary societies to be more fully realised, recognising both intense challenges that are currently threatening some traditional music practices, and significant scope for new practices to be imagined in response to deep veins of societal need. Professionalism encompasses the conduct, aims, values, responsibilities and ongoing development of a practising professional in the field. Professional higher music education engages both with providing future professionals with relevant education in particular craft skills, and with nurturing their visions for their work as artists in future societies. The major focus of the book is on performance traditions that have dominated professional higher education, notably western classical music.
    Original languageEnglish
    Place of PublicationAbingdon, Oxon
    PublisherRoutledge
    Number of pages182
    ISBN (Electronic)978-1003108337
    ISBN (Print)978-0367622046, 978-0367622091
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2 Jul 2021

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