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The New Music Industries

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Teaching popular music in higher education is multidimensional. This chapter considers how best to train students for sustainable career trajectories within the new music industries. To date, business education, particularly in tertiary settings, has tended to be treated in isolation from the ‘music’ component. This chapter will show how contemporary music education needs to reflect the convergence between the artist and ‘business’, and address the management of expectations. Multiple creativities underpin the integrated model for popular music education presented in this chapter. The relevance of artistry, individuality and entrepreneurship to music education is discussed. The chapter concludes with the ways in which education can address and prepare popular music students for the realities of practice that they may encounter.

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  1. Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Diane Hughes & Sarah Keith

  2. University of Technology, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Mark Evans

  3. Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Guy Morrow

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Hughes, D., Evans, M., Morrow, G., Keith, S. (2016). Popular Music Education. In: The New Music Industries. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40364-9_6

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