Australian Musical Futures: Towards 2020

The MCA is initiating a series of think tanks, titled Australian Musical Futures.

Towards 2020 is the first of these think tanks. It follows through on the Commonwealth Government's summit, focussing on the music sector, filling in the gaps and further developing some of the recommendations.

It brings together one hundred leaders and thinkers from across the music sector to consider futures in education related to music, music in the community, music infrastructure, the interventions of government through legislation and regulation including copyright, and funding, and the possible shape of the new music industry.

The papers on these pages were provided to participants as background to their discussions. Most of the papers have been transferred to the Knowledge Base on the MCA site, where they will be available for so long as they remain pertinent. In due course, these summit pages will be closed and readers may then wish to refer to the Knowledge Base.

Thanks
The Music Council of Australia is grateful for financial support for this event from the Institute of Creative Industries and Innovation, Queensland University of Technology and the Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre, Griffith University. Thanks go to the Sydney Conservatorium of Music for offering its facilities and to McKinsey's for its invaluable assistance in facilitating the event.

The Music Council of Australia receives welcome core support from the Music Board of the Australia Council, the Commonwealth Government's principal arts funding and advisory body. 

Briefing Papers 

Click through to papers provided for your interest group.

Note that the Legislation etc paper includes items of relevance to all groups.

Music Education - Read now

Communities, contexts and constructs - Read now

Legislation, regulation, infrastructure - Read now

The new music industry  - Read now

Additional Papers 

The final report of the Creative section of the Rudd 2020 summit can be read at this address: http://www.australia2020.gov.au/docs/final_report/2020_summit_report_8_creative.pdf

AbaF Survey of Private Sector Support for the Arts 2008 - Read now

Background Paper - Medium and Long Term Planning in the Music Sector - Read now

Delegates' Ideas

Click here to read delegates' ideas.  

Final Summary Notes

Click here to read what happened at the summit 

Comments (1)

Jane Robertson said:

I am keen to be involved in discussions concerning: 1.Compulsory accreditation for music teachers in the private sector; 2.Entrance requirements for tertiary music education; 3.Private v Public funding; 4.Specialist music teachers in Primary schools--an issue that was under "serious" discussion when I commenced teacher training in 1968; 5.The issue of peripatetic instrumental teachers in schools, along similar lines to the Qld model.

September 03, 2008