What is it about?
This is a review of a 2008/2016 book which asks the question. What is a musician? The volume looks at the characteristics of work for musicians and contrasts this with post-secondary education.
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Why is it important?
The term musician is often conflated with performer. In reality, musicians are professionals who work in a number of specialist areas. This has implications for initial and ongoing education and training, policy making and identity work.
Perspectives
I am keen to see challenges to the hierarchy of success which celebrates performers and creators and largely ignores the other work of musicians.
Professor Dawn Bennett
Curtin University
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This page is a summary of: Understanding the Classical Music Profession: The Past, the Present and Strategies for the Future by Dawn Bennett. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. 256 pp., hardback, £50.00. ISBN 9780754659594., British Journal of Music Education, June 2010, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0265051710000148.
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