Enlightenment Or Entitlement?

Tertiary music education is commonly understood as preparingstudents for a career as a performer. This, however, fails to addressfundamental shifts in the ways most of us now typically encounter, and thinkabout, music in our lives; nor does it acknowledge the diminishing funding basethat supports traditional modes of teaching. It is time to rethink both how,and why, we teach music on campus. Inaddressing the issues the author draws upon his experience since beingappointed in 2012 to lead the government-initiated takeover by AustralianNational University of the revered Canberra School of Music, a time of intensecontroversy.