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Contents

• Music Education, Learning Cultures and Employability, Rosa Reitsamer and Rainer Prokop (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria)
• Part I : The Neoliberal Conservatoire
• 1. Balancing Demand and Supply in Music Labour Markets: The Shifting Role of Italian Music Conservatories, Clementina Casula (University of Cagliari, Italy)
• 2. Marketing Conservatoire Education: The Employable White Musicians of European Classical Music, Ann Werner and Cecilia Ferm Almqvist (Södertörn University, Sweden)
• 3. From Music Higher Education to the Festival Stage: Questioning the Neoliberal Environments of Scottish Jazz, Sarah Raine (University College Dublin, Ireland) and Haftor Medbøe (Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland)
• 4. Facilitating Dreams, with a Sense of Reality: Employability in Dutch Higher Popular Music Education, Rick Everts, Pauwke Berkers and Erik Hitters (Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands)
• 5. On the Potential of Niche Markets: The Case of Bluegrass Music, Nate Olson (East Tennessee State University, USA)
• 6. From Merit to Engagement: Moving Music Education to the Next Phase, Mina Yang (Colburn School of Music, USA)
• Part II : Power Relations, Alternative Pedagogies and Activism
• 7. Classical Music After #MeToo: Is Music Higher Education a ‘Conducive Context’ for Sexual Misconduct?, Anna Bull (University of York, UK)
• 8. History, Narrative and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Music Conservatoire, Uchenna Ngwe (Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance & Royal Academy of Music, UK)
• 9. Other Acts of Intervention through Hip-Hop Studies: Teaching and Reflecting, Fernando Orejuela (Indiana University Bloomington, USA)
• 10. Access and Technology in Music Education: Negotiating Neoliberalism During a Pandemic Within a Graduate Popular Music Pedagogies Course, Kyle Zavitz (McGill University, Canada), Rhiannon Simpson (University of Melbourne, Australia) and Ruth Wright (
• 11. The Surge Towards ‘Diversity’: Interest Convergence and Performative ‘Wokeness’ in Music Institutions , Juliet Hess (Michigan State University, USA)
• Part III : Transitions and Trajectories of Musicians
• 12. Negotiating Pedagogical Cultures: Adaptive Challenges Facing Music Education Graduates on Their Return to China, Elizabeth Haddon (University of York, UK)
• 13. Swedish Dance Music Scenes, Female Career Trajectories and the Neoliberal Shift (Stockholm University, Sweden)
• 14. The Unstable Lightness of Rock Once Again: Careers, Trajectories and DIY Cultures in Portuguese Indie Rock, Paula Guerra (University of Porto, Portugal), Ana Oliveira (Universidade Aberta, Portugal) and Andy Bennett (Griffith University, Australia)
• 15. Music Therapy as Profession and Practice: The Shifting Interrelationship of Precarity and Entrepreneurialism, Simon Procter (Nordoff Robbins, UK)
• 16. Neoliberalism’s Others: Imperatives of Activism in Portland, Oregon, Elizabeth Gould (University of Toronto, Canada)
• Index