University of Kentucky

Director, Undergraduate Studies in Arts Administration

Teaching undergraduate, brick-and-mortar courses in fundraising, marketing, arts entrepreneurship, and more, as well as developing and teaching within a thriving online graduate program that includes courses in social entrepreneurship and art and artists in society, I embrace each morning's beautiful drive from Louisville to Lexington, soaking in the scenic Bluegrass State.

University of Kentucky

Graduate Course Developer in Social Entrepreneurship

I am passionate about preparing the next generation of change agents, through gaining a deeper understanding of how the transformative powers of the arts - curiosity, creativity, and collaboration - can be leveraged to address the most pressing problems we face within our communities and around the world.

Artists Now

Executive/Artistic Director

Artists Now was my passion for seven years. While serving as Executive Director I was able to match corporate and donor interests with the organization’s vision of impacting a diverse community through educational and artistic experiences. Building culturally rich programming for the community, developing educational opportunities for children and adult learners, and creating outreach into the public schools were all possible by developing, sustaining, and strengthening relationships with individuals and corporations. Collaborations between Artists Now and international artists, including Awadagin Pratt, the first African-American to win an international piano concerto competition, the profoundly important American poet, Evie Shockley, and Afro-Peruvian jazz artist Gabriel Allegria, were all made possible through grants I authored, while articulating the educational and artistic vision of Artists Now.

Philadelphia International Music Camp & Festival

Director, Brass Program

Oversee all aspects of the brass offerings for PIMF 2013.

DePauw University

Director, 21st Century Musician Initiative

Engaging artist-musicians, scholars and practitioners of arts entrepreneurship, and colleagues across the nation in re-imagining and redefining how we prepare 21st-Century Musicians for the shifting cultural landscape of the contemporary moment.

University of Wyoming

Associate Professor of Music

As a tenured professor of music, I taught courses in jazz improvisation and music education. Among my greatest joys were leading a big band and teaching studio trombone.

Administratively I thrived when having the opportunity to advance the Music Department's agenda forward through fundraising, public relations, and facility renovations.

Articles authored for 21CM.org

21CM.org

Dear Recent Music Graduate: http://21cm.org/musicianship/2017/06/01/dear-recent-music-graduate/ Entrepreneurship and the Artist-Revolutionary: http://21cm.org/entrepreneurship/2015/11/01/entrepreneurship-and-the-artist-revolutionary/ Calling All Leaders: http://21cm.org/culture-change/2017/04/06/calling-all-leaders/ Need an Audience? Look to the Flash Mob: http://21cm.org/21cm-u/2018/02/08/need-an-audience-look-to-the-flash-mob/

Articles authored for 21CM.org

21CM.org

Dear Recent Music Graduate: http://21cm.org/musicianship/2017/06/01/dear-recent-music-graduate/ Entrepreneurship and the Artist-Revolutionary: http://21cm.org/entrepreneurship/2015/11/01/entrepreneurship-and-the-artist-revolutionary/ Calling All Leaders: http://21cm.org/culture-change/2017/04/06/calling-all-leaders/ Need an Audience? Look to the Flash Mob: http://21cm.org/21cm-u/2018/02/08/need-an-audience-look-to-the-flash-mob/

Author, The 21CM Introduction to Music Entrepreneurship

Rowman & Littlefield

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. Music entrepreneurship courses equip students with the skills and mindsets to build relationships with their communities, jumpstart and fund new initiatives, engage new audiences, and ultimately create successful and meaningful careers. The 21CM Introduction to Music Entrepreneurship introduces students to how the working musician’s world works and provides them with the tools necessary to invent and execute successful community-based projects. This revolutionary online text by Mark Rabideau embraces the civic-mindedness of service learning, the high intellectual and performance standards of the academic community, and the creative energy of the entrepreneurial artist.

Articles authored for 21CM.org

21CM.org

Dear Recent Music Graduate: http://21cm.org/musicianship/2017/06/01/dear-recent-music-graduate/ Entrepreneurship and the Artist-Revolutionary: http://21cm.org/entrepreneurship/2015/11/01/entrepreneurship-and-the-artist-revolutionary/ Calling All Leaders: http://21cm.org/culture-change/2017/04/06/calling-all-leaders/ Need an Audience? Look to the Flash Mob: http://21cm.org/21cm-u/2018/02/08/need-an-audience-look-to-the-flash-mob/

Author, The 21CM Introduction to Music Entrepreneurship

Rowman & Littlefield

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. Music entrepreneurship courses equip students with the skills and mindsets to build relationships with their communities, jumpstart and fund new initiatives, engage new audiences, and ultimately create successful and meaningful careers. The 21CM Introduction to Music Entrepreneurship introduces students to how the working musician’s world works and provides them with the tools necessary to invent and execute successful community-based projects. This revolutionary online text by Mark Rabideau embraces the civic-mindedness of service learning, the high intellectual and performance standards of the academic community, and the creative energy of the entrepreneurial artist.

Editorial Board, Artivate - A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts

Artivate - A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts

Articles authored for 21CM.org

21CM.org

Dear Recent Music Graduate: http://21cm.org/musicianship/2017/06/01/dear-recent-music-graduate/ Entrepreneurship and the Artist-Revolutionary: http://21cm.org/entrepreneurship/2015/11/01/entrepreneurship-and-the-artist-revolutionary/ Calling All Leaders: http://21cm.org/culture-change/2017/04/06/calling-all-leaders/ Need an Audience? Look to the Flash Mob: http://21cm.org/21cm-u/2018/02/08/need-an-audience-look-to-the-flash-mob/

Author, The 21CM Introduction to Music Entrepreneurship

Rowman & Littlefield

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. Music entrepreneurship courses equip students with the skills and mindsets to build relationships with their communities, jumpstart and fund new initiatives, engage new audiences, and ultimately create successful and meaningful careers. The 21CM Introduction to Music Entrepreneurship introduces students to how the working musician’s world works and provides them with the tools necessary to invent and execute successful community-based projects. This revolutionary online text by Mark Rabideau embraces the civic-mindedness of service learning, the high intellectual and performance standards of the academic community, and the creative energy of the entrepreneurial artist.

Editorial Board, Artivate - A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts

Artivate - A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts

Author, Creativity Repositioned

Arts Education Policy Review

Creativity is the cultural capital of the twenty-first century. This scholarly pursuit presents an argument for the arts to lead a new wave of educational reform that repositions creativity as a centerpiece of an education that prepares a generation of change agents for doing good.

Articles authored for 21CM.org

21CM.org

Dear Recent Music Graduate: http://21cm.org/musicianship/2017/06/01/dear-recent-music-graduate/ Entrepreneurship and the Artist-Revolutionary: http://21cm.org/entrepreneurship/2015/11/01/entrepreneurship-and-the-artist-revolutionary/ Calling All Leaders: http://21cm.org/culture-change/2017/04/06/calling-all-leaders/ Need an Audience? Look to the Flash Mob: http://21cm.org/21cm-u/2018/02/08/need-an-audience-look-to-the-flash-mob/

Author, The 21CM Introduction to Music Entrepreneurship

Rowman & Littlefield

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. Music entrepreneurship courses equip students with the skills and mindsets to build relationships with their communities, jumpstart and fund new initiatives, engage new audiences, and ultimately create successful and meaningful careers. The 21CM Introduction to Music Entrepreneurship introduces students to how the working musician’s world works and provides them with the tools necessary to invent and execute successful community-based projects. This revolutionary online text by Mark Rabideau embraces the civic-mindedness of service learning, the high intellectual and performance standards of the academic community, and the creative energy of the entrepreneurial artist.

Editorial Board, Artivate - A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts

Artivate - A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts

Author, Creativity Repositioned

Arts Education Policy Review

Creativity is the cultural capital of the twenty-first century. This scholarly pursuit presents an argument for the arts to lead a new wave of educational reform that repositions creativity as a centerpiece of an education that prepares a generation of change agents for doing good.

Author, Entrepreneurship and the Artist-Revolutionary

21CM.org

The term “arts entrepreneurship” seems to have flummoxed the music profession, with half believing it’s a merger of B-school and conservatory practices and the rest decrying “l’art pour l’art.” While at first glance, the artist and the entrepreneur may seem worlds apart, in fact they are remarkably similar.

Articles authored for 21CM.org

21CM.org

Dear Recent Music Graduate: http://21cm.org/musicianship/2017/06/01/dear-recent-music-graduate/ Entrepreneurship and the Artist-Revolutionary: http://21cm.org/entrepreneurship/2015/11/01/entrepreneurship-and-the-artist-revolutionary/ Calling All Leaders: http://21cm.org/culture-change/2017/04/06/calling-all-leaders/ Need an Audience? Look to the Flash Mob: http://21cm.org/21cm-u/2018/02/08/need-an-audience-look-to-the-flash-mob/

Author, The 21CM Introduction to Music Entrepreneurship

Rowman & Littlefield

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. Music entrepreneurship courses equip students with the skills and mindsets to build relationships with their communities, jumpstart and fund new initiatives, engage new audiences, and ultimately create successful and meaningful careers. The 21CM Introduction to Music Entrepreneurship introduces students to how the working musician’s world works and provides them with the tools necessary to invent and execute successful community-based projects. This revolutionary online text by Mark Rabideau embraces the civic-mindedness of service learning, the high intellectual and performance standards of the academic community, and the creative energy of the entrepreneurial artist.

Editorial Board, Artivate - A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts

Artivate - A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts

Author, Creativity Repositioned

Arts Education Policy Review

Creativity is the cultural capital of the twenty-first century. This scholarly pursuit presents an argument for the arts to lead a new wave of educational reform that repositions creativity as a centerpiece of an education that prepares a generation of change agents for doing good.

Author, Entrepreneurship and the Artist-Revolutionary

21CM.org

The term “arts entrepreneurship” seems to have flummoxed the music profession, with half believing it’s a merger of B-school and conservatory practices and the rest decrying “l’art pour l’art.” While at first glance, the artist and the entrepreneur may seem worlds apart, in fact they are remarkably similar.

Editor/Publisher, 21CM.org

21CM.org

21CM.org is an online, professional resource created expressly to help serious musicians thrive, not just survive, in today’s modern musical landscape. The site combines a magazine focused on people, organizations, projects and innovations with live events and educational tools.

Articles authored for 21CM.org

21CM.org

Dear Recent Music Graduate: http://21cm.org/musicianship/2017/06/01/dear-recent-music-graduate/ Entrepreneurship and the Artist-Revolutionary: http://21cm.org/entrepreneurship/2015/11/01/entrepreneurship-and-the-artist-revolutionary/ Calling All Leaders: http://21cm.org/culture-change/2017/04/06/calling-all-leaders/ Need an Audience? Look to the Flash Mob: http://21cm.org/21cm-u/2018/02/08/need-an-audience-look-to-the-flash-mob/

Author, The 21CM Introduction to Music Entrepreneurship

Rowman & Littlefield

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. Music entrepreneurship courses equip students with the skills and mindsets to build relationships with their communities, jumpstart and fund new initiatives, engage new audiences, and ultimately create successful and meaningful careers. The 21CM Introduction to Music Entrepreneurship introduces students to how the working musician’s world works and provides them with the tools necessary to invent and execute successful community-based projects. This revolutionary online text by Mark Rabideau embraces the civic-mindedness of service learning, the high intellectual and performance standards of the academic community, and the creative energy of the entrepreneurial artist.

Editorial Board, Artivate - A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts

Artivate - A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts

Author, Creativity Repositioned

Arts Education Policy Review

Creativity is the cultural capital of the twenty-first century. This scholarly pursuit presents an argument for the arts to lead a new wave of educational reform that repositions creativity as a centerpiece of an education that prepares a generation of change agents for doing good.

Author, Entrepreneurship and the Artist-Revolutionary

21CM.org

The term “arts entrepreneurship” seems to have flummoxed the music profession, with half believing it’s a merger of B-school and conservatory practices and the rest decrying “l’art pour l’art.” While at first glance, the artist and the entrepreneur may seem worlds apart, in fact they are remarkably similar.

Editor/Publisher, 21CM.org

21CM.org

21CM.org is an online, professional resource created expressly to help serious musicians thrive, not just survive, in today’s modern musical landscape. The site combines a magazine focused on people, organizations, projects and innovations with live events and educational tools.

Editor, CMS Series in Emerging Fields in Music

Routledge

The CMS SERIES IN EMERGING FIELDS IN MUSIC, published by Routledge, consists of concise monographs that help the profession re-imagine how we must prepare 21st Century Musicians. Shifting cultural landscapes, emerging technologies, and a changing profession in-and-out of the academy demand that we re-examine our relationships with audiences, leverage our art to strengthen the communities in which we live and work, equip our students to think and act as artist-entrepreneurs, explore the limitless (and sometimes limiting) role technology plays in the life of a musician, revisit our very assumptions about what artistic excellence means and how personal creativity must be repositioned at the center of this definition, and share best practices and our own stories of successes and failures when leading institutional change. Topics of particular interest include (but are not limited to): innovating the ways in which we engage audiences from the stage, within our communities, and across digital platforms; crafting initiatives that highlight the healing powers of music, with special attention to those at the margins; developing practices that prepare students to embrace the mind-sets and skill-sets of the artist-entrepreneur; tapping best-practices afforded by new technologies; developing arts advocacy as a core competency of artists; refocusing curiosity, creativity, and collaboration at the heart of all that we do; leading meaningful institutional change at a time of uncertainty and promise. Please contact Series Editor Mark Rabideau, DePauw University (mark.rabideau@depauw.edu) for proposal guidelines or to discuss prospective submissions.

Articles authored for 21CM.org

21CM.org

Dear Recent Music Graduate: http://21cm.org/musicianship/2017/06/01/dear-recent-music-graduate/ Entrepreneurship and the Artist-Revolutionary: http://21cm.org/entrepreneurship/2015/11/01/entrepreneurship-and-the-artist-revolutionary/ Calling All Leaders: http://21cm.org/culture-change/2017/04/06/calling-all-leaders/ Need an Audience? Look to the Flash Mob: http://21cm.org/21cm-u/2018/02/08/need-an-audience-look-to-the-flash-mob/

Author, The 21CM Introduction to Music Entrepreneurship

Rowman & Littlefield

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. Music entrepreneurship courses equip students with the skills and mindsets to build relationships with their communities, jumpstart and fund new initiatives, engage new audiences, and ultimately create successful and meaningful careers. The 21CM Introduction to Music Entrepreneurship introduces students to how the working musician’s world works and provides them with the tools necessary to invent and execute successful community-based projects. This revolutionary online text by Mark Rabideau embraces the civic-mindedness of service learning, the high intellectual and performance standards of the academic community, and the creative energy of the entrepreneurial artist.

Editorial Board, Artivate - A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts

Artivate - A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts

Author, Creativity Repositioned

Arts Education Policy Review

Creativity is the cultural capital of the twenty-first century. This scholarly pursuit presents an argument for the arts to lead a new wave of educational reform that repositions creativity as a centerpiece of an education that prepares a generation of change agents for doing good.

Author, Entrepreneurship and the Artist-Revolutionary

21CM.org

The term “arts entrepreneurship” seems to have flummoxed the music profession, with half believing it’s a merger of B-school and conservatory practices and the rest decrying “l’art pour l’art.” While at first glance, the artist and the entrepreneur may seem worlds apart, in fact they are remarkably similar.

Editor/Publisher, 21CM.org

21CM.org

21CM.org is an online, professional resource created expressly to help serious musicians thrive, not just survive, in today’s modern musical landscape. The site combines a magazine focused on people, organizations, projects and innovations with live events and educational tools.

Editor, CMS Series in Emerging Fields in Music

Routledge

The CMS SERIES IN EMERGING FIELDS IN MUSIC, published by Routledge, consists of concise monographs that help the profession re-imagine how we must prepare 21st Century Musicians. Shifting cultural landscapes, emerging technologies, and a changing profession in-and-out of the academy demand that we re-examine our relationships with audiences, leverage our art to strengthen the communities in which we live and work, equip our students to think and act as artist-entrepreneurs, explore the limitless (and sometimes limiting) role technology plays in the life of a musician, revisit our very assumptions about what artistic excellence means and how personal creativity must be repositioned at the center of this definition, and share best practices and our own stories of successes and failures when leading institutional change. Topics of particular interest include (but are not limited to): innovating the ways in which we engage audiences from the stage, within our communities, and across digital platforms; crafting initiatives that highlight the healing powers of music, with special attention to those at the margins; developing practices that prepare students to embrace the mind-sets and skill-sets of the artist-entrepreneur; tapping best-practices afforded by new technologies; developing arts advocacy as a core competency of artists; refocusing curiosity, creativity, and collaboration at the heart of all that we do; leading meaningful institutional change at a time of uncertainty and promise. Please contact Series Editor Mark Rabideau, DePauw University (mark.rabideau@depauw.edu) for proposal guidelines or to discuss prospective submissions.

Author, 4 Keys to Creating a Career You Love

iCadenza

Today’s post is written by Mark Rabideau. We met Mark through our involvement on the College Music Society’s Committee for Careers Outside the Academy. During our first conversation with Mark, we were inspired by his energy, enthusiasm, positivity, and encouragement for our work. Since then, we’ve developed a close friendship and we continue to admire the amazing work he does as the Director of the 21st-Century Musician Initiative at DePauw University. As someone who has thrived in a variety of creative careers, we thought he would be the perfect person to discuss the keys to creating a career you love.

Articles authored for 21CM.org

21CM.org

Dear Recent Music Graduate: http://21cm.org/musicianship/2017/06/01/dear-recent-music-graduate/ Entrepreneurship and the Artist-Revolutionary: http://21cm.org/entrepreneurship/2015/11/01/entrepreneurship-and-the-artist-revolutionary/ Calling All Leaders: http://21cm.org/culture-change/2017/04/06/calling-all-leaders/ Need an Audience? Look to the Flash Mob: http://21cm.org/21cm-u/2018/02/08/need-an-audience-look-to-the-flash-mob/

Author, The 21CM Introduction to Music Entrepreneurship

Rowman & Littlefield

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. Music entrepreneurship courses equip students with the skills and mindsets to build relationships with their communities, jumpstart and fund new initiatives, engage new audiences, and ultimately create successful and meaningful careers. The 21CM Introduction to Music Entrepreneurship introduces students to how the working musician’s world works and provides them with the tools necessary to invent and execute successful community-based projects. This revolutionary online text by Mark Rabideau embraces the civic-mindedness of service learning, the high intellectual and performance standards of the academic community, and the creative energy of the entrepreneurial artist.

Editorial Board, Artivate - A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts

Artivate - A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts

Author, Creativity Repositioned

Arts Education Policy Review

Creativity is the cultural capital of the twenty-first century. This scholarly pursuit presents an argument for the arts to lead a new wave of educational reform that repositions creativity as a centerpiece of an education that prepares a generation of change agents for doing good.

Author, Entrepreneurship and the Artist-Revolutionary

21CM.org

The term “arts entrepreneurship” seems to have flummoxed the music profession, with half believing it’s a merger of B-school and conservatory practices and the rest decrying “l’art pour l’art.” While at first glance, the artist and the entrepreneur may seem worlds apart, in fact they are remarkably similar.

Editor/Publisher, 21CM.org

21CM.org

21CM.org is an online, professional resource created expressly to help serious musicians thrive, not just survive, in today’s modern musical landscape. The site combines a magazine focused on people, organizations, projects and innovations with live events and educational tools.

Editor, CMS Series in Emerging Fields in Music

Routledge

The CMS SERIES IN EMERGING FIELDS IN MUSIC, published by Routledge, consists of concise monographs that help the profession re-imagine how we must prepare 21st Century Musicians. Shifting cultural landscapes, emerging technologies, and a changing profession in-and-out of the academy demand that we re-examine our relationships with audiences, leverage our art to strengthen the communities in which we live and work, equip our students to think and act as artist-entrepreneurs, explore the limitless (and sometimes limiting) role technology plays in the life of a musician, revisit our very assumptions about what artistic excellence means and how personal creativity must be repositioned at the center of this definition, and share best practices and our own stories of successes and failures when leading institutional change. Topics of particular interest include (but are not limited to): innovating the ways in which we engage audiences from the stage, within our communities, and across digital platforms; crafting initiatives that highlight the healing powers of music, with special attention to those at the margins; developing practices that prepare students to embrace the mind-sets and skill-sets of the artist-entrepreneur; tapping best-practices afforded by new technologies; developing arts advocacy as a core competency of artists; refocusing curiosity, creativity, and collaboration at the heart of all that we do; leading meaningful institutional change at a time of uncertainty and promise. Please contact Series Editor Mark Rabideau, DePauw University (mark.rabideau@depauw.edu) for proposal guidelines or to discuss prospective submissions.

Author, 4 Keys to Creating a Career You Love

iCadenza

Today’s post is written by Mark Rabideau. We met Mark through our involvement on the College Music Society’s Committee for Careers Outside the Academy. During our first conversation with Mark, we were inspired by his energy, enthusiasm, positivity, and encouragement for our work. Since then, we’ve developed a close friendship and we continue to admire the amazing work he does as the Director of the 21st-Century Musician Initiative at DePauw University. As someone who has thrived in a variety of creative careers, we thought he would be the perfect person to discuss the keys to creating a career you love.

Author, Why the Louisville Ballet Has It Right

Courier Journal - Louisville, KY

Articles authored for 21CM.org

21CM.org

Dear Recent Music Graduate: http://21cm.org/musicianship/2017/06/01/dear-recent-music-graduate/ Entrepreneurship and the Artist-Revolutionary: http://21cm.org/entrepreneurship/2015/11/01/entrepreneurship-and-the-artist-revolutionary/ Calling All Leaders: http://21cm.org/culture-change/2017/04/06/calling-all-leaders/ Need an Audience? Look to the Flash Mob: http://21cm.org/21cm-u/2018/02/08/need-an-audience-look-to-the-flash-mob/

Author, The 21CM Introduction to Music Entrepreneurship

Rowman & Littlefield

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. Music entrepreneurship courses equip students with the skills and mindsets to build relationships with their communities, jumpstart and fund new initiatives, engage new audiences, and ultimately create successful and meaningful careers. The 21CM Introduction to Music Entrepreneurship introduces students to how the working musician’s world works and provides them with the tools necessary to invent and execute successful community-based projects. This revolutionary online text by Mark Rabideau embraces the civic-mindedness of service learning, the high intellectual and performance standards of the academic community, and the creative energy of the entrepreneurial artist.

Editorial Board, Artivate - A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts

Artivate - A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts

Author, Creativity Repositioned

Arts Education Policy Review

Creativity is the cultural capital of the twenty-first century. This scholarly pursuit presents an argument for the arts to lead a new wave of educational reform that repositions creativity as a centerpiece of an education that prepares a generation of change agents for doing good.

Author, Entrepreneurship and the Artist-Revolutionary

21CM.org

The term “arts entrepreneurship” seems to have flummoxed the music profession, with half believing it’s a merger of B-school and conservatory practices and the rest decrying “l’art pour l’art.” While at first glance, the artist and the entrepreneur may seem worlds apart, in fact they are remarkably similar.

Editor/Publisher, 21CM.org

21CM.org

21CM.org is an online, professional resource created expressly to help serious musicians thrive, not just survive, in today’s modern musical landscape. The site combines a magazine focused on people, organizations, projects and innovations with live events and educational tools.

Editor, CMS Series in Emerging Fields in Music

Routledge

The CMS SERIES IN EMERGING FIELDS IN MUSIC, published by Routledge, consists of concise monographs that help the profession re-imagine how we must prepare 21st Century Musicians. Shifting cultural landscapes, emerging technologies, and a changing profession in-and-out of the academy demand that we re-examine our relationships with audiences, leverage our art to strengthen the communities in which we live and work, equip our students to think and act as artist-entrepreneurs, explore the limitless (and sometimes limiting) role technology plays in the life of a musician, revisit our very assumptions about what artistic excellence means and how personal creativity must be repositioned at the center of this definition, and share best practices and our own stories of successes and failures when leading institutional change. Topics of particular interest include (but are not limited to): innovating the ways in which we engage audiences from the stage, within our communities, and across digital platforms; crafting initiatives that highlight the healing powers of music, with special attention to those at the margins; developing practices that prepare students to embrace the mind-sets and skill-sets of the artist-entrepreneur; tapping best-practices afforded by new technologies; developing arts advocacy as a core competency of artists; refocusing curiosity, creativity, and collaboration at the heart of all that we do; leading meaningful institutional change at a time of uncertainty and promise. Please contact Series Editor Mark Rabideau, DePauw University (mark.rabideau@depauw.edu) for proposal guidelines or to discuss prospective submissions.

Author, 4 Keys to Creating a Career You Love

iCadenza

Today’s post is written by Mark Rabideau. We met Mark through our involvement on the College Music Society’s Committee for Careers Outside the Academy. During our first conversation with Mark, we were inspired by his energy, enthusiasm, positivity, and encouragement for our work. Since then, we’ve developed a close friendship and we continue to admire the amazing work he does as the Director of the 21st-Century Musician Initiative at DePauw University. As someone who has thrived in a variety of creative careers, we thought he would be the perfect person to discuss the keys to creating a career you love.

Author, Why the Louisville Ballet Has It Right

Courier Journal - Louisville, KY

Author, Creating the Revolutionary Artist

Rowman & Littlefied

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. Based on Mark Rabideau’s revolutionary online text The 21CM Introduction to Music Entrepreneurship, this book will 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.

College Music Society

Founder, Careers Outside the Academy Mentoring Program

College Music Society

Founder, Careers Outside the Academy Mentoring Program

College Music Society

Founder, Careers Outside the Academy Mentoring Program

College Music Society

Founder, Careers Outside the Academy Mentoring Program

College Music Society

Founder, Careers Outside the Academy Mentoring Program

College Music Society

Founder, Careers Outside the Academy Mentoring Program

College Music Society

Founder, Careers Outside the Academy Mentoring Program

College Music Society

Founder, Careers Outside the Academy Mentoring Program

College Music Society

Founder, Careers Outside the Academy Mentoring Program

College Music Society

Founder, Careers Outside the Academy Mentoring Program

College Music Society

Founder, Careers Outside the Academy Mentoring Program

College Music Society

Founder, Careers Outside the Academy Mentoring Program

College Music Society

Founder, Careers Outside the Academy Mentoring Program

College Music Society

Founder, Careers Outside the Academy Mentoring Program

College Music Society

Founder, Careers Outside the Academy Mentoring Program

College Music Society

Founder, Careers Outside the Academy Mentoring Program

College Music Society

Founder, Careers Outside the Academy Mentoring Program