Entrepreneurial Music Education

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   • Kristina Kelman

   Pages 1-8

3. Making a Case for an Entrepreneurial Music Education in Schools

   • Kristina Kelman

   Pages 9-22

4. Current Approaches to Education—But What About the Music Industry?

   • Kristina Kelman

   Pages 23-62

5. Building the Emerging Professional Learning Model

   • Kristina Kelman

   Pages 63-91

6. Designing an Entrepreneurial Learning Project

   • Kristina Kelman

   Pages 93-115

7. Developing Social Skills for Entrepreneurship in the Music Industry

   • Kristina Kelman

   Pages 117-141

8. Learning About Project Management for Entrepreneurship in the Music Industry

   • Kristina Kelman

   Pages 143-166

9. Acquiring Domain Knowledge for Entrepreneurship in the Music Industry

   • Kristina Kelman

   Pages 167-205

10. Design Principles to Plan Entrepreneurial Learning in Music Education

    • Kristina Kelman

    Pages 207-241

11. Back Matter

    Pages 243-251

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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.

• Entrepreneurial education
• High School Music Students
• Careers in Music Industry
• Early Professional Development
• Network learning
• Self-directed learning
• Preparation for the creative industries
• Emerging Professional Learning Model
• Entrepreneurial knowledge
• Music education
• learning and instruction

"This is a terrific contribution to innovative practices in music education, and makes a profound connection with the musical world outside the classroom."—Professor Emerita Lucy Green, UCL Institute of Education, UK


"Entrepreneurial skills are essential for aspiring musicians, artists and composers in the contemporary music economy. The question is how to design a learning experience where young musicians are able to develop such skills. In this important book, Dr Kelman reports on her successful approach to this challenge. Dr Kelman's entrepreneurial education model that allows students grow their own business venture provides crucial insights for music industry educators around the world."
—Professor Patrik Wikstrom, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

• Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Australia

  Kristina Kelman

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.

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