Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 252
Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
978-1-5381-0991-5 • Hardback • June 2018 • $99.00 • (£76.00)
978-1-5381-0992-2 • Paperback • June 2018 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
978-1-5381-0993-9 • eBook • June 2018 • $42.50 • (£35.00)
Mark Rabideau is a cultural entrepreneur, busy re-imaging how we must prepare musicians to thrive within the shifting marketplace and cultural landscape of the contemporary moment. He is the director of the 21st Century Musician Initiative (21cm.org) at DePauw University and has generated projects ranging from producing and hosting "Live from Smoke" (a radio show from NYC’s upper-westside), founding and serving as executive and artistic director of Artist Now (a not-for-profit arts organization), and producing "Worlds End" (an original work with the American Repertory Ballet).
Acknowledgments
Foreword
How to Use this Book
Background- To Be a 21st-Cetury Musician
- Exploring Curiosity: Finding Opportunities to Make a Community Impact
- Assessing Your Strengths: Tenacity and the Superpowers
- Thinking about Creativity: Fueling the Imagination
- Building a Team: Collaboration and Networking
- Problem Solving: Developing Solutions that Work for You
- Diversity and inclusivity: Abandoning Bias and Listening to Voices Unlike Our Own
- The Business Side: Laying the Groundwork for a Successful Project
- From Inspiration to Action: Your Project Takes Flight
- Getting the Word Out: Storytelling, Marketing, and Communications Strategy
- Finding the Funds: Donations, Grants, and Finance Management
- From Single Project to Rewarding Career: Continuing the Revolution
Epilogue
Toolkit
Index
About the Author
Here is an innovative framework for ideation and action to create projects that drive impact and income. Highly recommended for artists and arts educators who are committed to creating a new sense of relevance.
— Susan de Weger, founder of, Notable Values and associate lecturer in music entrepreneurship, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music
Mark Rabideau is one of the most enthusiastic and clued-in members of the forward-thinking music community. This book will empower anyone who fully digests its message.
— Mike Block, cellist; singer; composer; associate professor, Berklee College of Music; and founder of the Mike Block String Camp
This book does something astonishing. It leads readers on a journey out of the box, leaving them in a new landscape that they’ll in part have created for themselves and in which they’re ready to be astoundingly creative.
— Greg Sandow, composer, critic, educator
Rabideau has created a thorough and tremendously useful resource for performers. His analysis is spot on, and he has truly captured the essence of the successful 21st-century musician.
— Justin Kantor, co-founder and& managing member ,of (Le) Poisson Rouge and faculty at tThe New School’s Mannes Conservatory