Building sustainable portfolio careers in music: insights and implications for higher education. (27th May 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bartleet, Brydie-Leigh; Ballico, Christina; Bennett, Dawn; Bridgstock, Ruth; Draper, Paul; Tomlinson, Vanessa; Harrison, Scott
• Is Part Of: Music education research. Volume 21:Number 3(2019)
• Page Start: 282
• Page End: 294
• Publication Date: 2019-05-27
• Subjects: Portfolio careers -- Protean careers -- career trajectories -- music -- graduate outcomes -- higher education; Music -- Instruction and study -- Periodicals; Music -- Instruction and study -- Research -- Periodicals; Musique -- Étude et enseignement -- Périodiques; Musique -- Étude et enseignement -- Recherche -- Périodiques; 780.72
• DOI: 10.1080/14613808.2019.1598348
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1461-3808

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This article discusses a range of significant issues for consideration by music higher education institutions when preparing their students for a portfolio career in music. Drawing on insights from a review of literature undertaken as part of an Australian Research Council Linkage Project, Making Music Work: Sustainable portfolio careers for Australian musicians, the article explores the dynamic structure of the music sector and the ways in which musicians are undertaking a portfolio of roles in order to ensure financial and creative sustainability. In particular, the article focuses on five career and educational issues of importance: enterprise and entrepreneurship, mobility, digitisation, gender parity, and health and wellbeing – when preparing graduates for a portfolio career reality.