This book addresses the gap between formal music education curricula and the knowledge and skills necessary to enter the professional music industry. It uses extensive data from a long-running research project where high school students were invited to start their own business venture, Youth Music Industries. Not only did this act as a business venture, but it also functioned as a learning environment informed by the concepts of Communities of Practice and social capital. Exploring how entrepreneurial qualities were developed, their learning was subsequently captured and distilled into a set of design principles: in this way, a pedagogical approach was developed that can be transferred across the creative industries more broadly. This book will be of interest and value to scholars of music education, as well as those preparing students for the creative industries.

Hersteller:
Springer Verlag GmbH
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DE 69121 Heidelberg

Dr Kristina Kelman is a QUT academic, researcher, teacher, community music facilitator and jazz musician. Her research interests include the education of the aspiring, professional musician through experiential learning.