Making a Case for an Entrepreneurial Music Education in Schools

Abstract

Kelman explores the current creative industries context, showing the demands of workers to participate in a symbiotic relationship between creativity and enterprise. The chapter draws on a range of studies, arguing that schools and universities are not equipped to respond to the need for young people to be creative, flexible, adaptive, and innovative. Kelman highlights the role that schools, teachers, and industry partners can play in equipping young people with the transferrable skills and attributes needed for sustainable careers in the music industry, and the creative industries more generally. The chapter concludes with a description of the learning experiment that was set up to investigate the skills and knowledge that students learned through an education designed to foster entrepreneurial capacity in the music industry.