Expanding Professionalism in Music and Higher Music Education

A Changing Game

Heidi Westerlund, Helena Gaunt, Heidi Westerlund, Helena Gaunt, Helena Gaunt, Heidi Westerlund

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000400557
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Theory & Practice

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of tables and figures
• Contributors
• SEMPRE studies in the psychology of music
• Invitation
• 1 Expanding professionalism in and through Finnish local opera
• 2 Practising civic professionalism through inter-professional collaboration: Reconnecting quality with equality in the Nordic music school system
• 3 Making space: Expanding professionalism through relational university–community partnerships
• 4 Fostering transformative professionalism through curriculum changes within a Bachelor of Music
• 5 Rewriting the score: How pre-professional work and employability development can improve student thinking
• 6 Conflicting professional identities for artists in transprofessional contexts: Insights from a pilot programme initiating artistic interventions in organisations
• 7 Moving encounters: Embodied pedagogical interaction in music and dance educators’ expanding professionalism
• 8 Navigating power relations in a participatory music practice in a hospital
• 9 Making our way through the deep waters of life: Music practitioners’ professional work in neonatal intensive care units
• 10 World In Motion ensemble: My professional journey with refugee musicians and music university students
• Index