Creating the Revolutionary Artist: Entrepreneurship for the 21st-Century Musician

by Mark Rabideau, Tayloe Harding (Foreword)

As traditional music career paths become increasingly scarce, 21st-century musicians must reach out to new and diverse audiences to ensure career success and sustainability. Many universities and conservatories now offer entrepreneurship courses for their students, but musicians already in the working world must also learn to build relationships with their communities, jumpstart and fund new initiatives, engage new audiences, and ultimately create successful and meaningful careers.Creating the Revolutionary Artist challenges performers to build increased audiences through creative action and community involvement. Mark Rabideau helps jumpstart the careers of musicians and artists in all styles and at all levels as it lays out business and project management acumen within a talent-driven spirit of civic-mindfulness. Drawing together the real-world wisdom of world-class musicians and educators, the book includes strength identification and idea creation exercises, inspiring case studies, and a toolkit of how-to guides to lead the reader through a successful community-based project and on to a rewarding career in the arts.

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Genres: Music

253 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 8, 2018

Reviews

[Gaelen Mccormick · Rating 4 out of 5]

DEfinitely a must-read for those just starting out of grad school. But even for this rusty old gal, there were fresh insights, and lots of ‘aha’ moments. The back 40 pages or so are great stripped down tutorials on everything from creating a business plan to doing fundraising. Really helpful when I ‘ll need to refresh everything I just learned and put it into action. I appreciated the variety of voices that contributed to this book, and the extensive bibliography/notes at the end.

I now have LOTS of follow up reading to do!! (Yay!)

[Clarissa Hubert]

Not rating since this is a non-fiction/reference type work. This book has some very valuable principles highlighted for the current yet ever-changing music industry climate. I really appreciate the amalgamation of different businesses, people, projects, and artists working to make a difference and shed some advice and inspiration on how you can do the same.