{"product_id":"career-choices-in-music-beyond-the-pandemic-musical-and-psychological-perspectives-9781538168394","title":"Career Choices in Music beyond the Pandemic:","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eChoosing a career is one of the most important decisions we make in our lifetime. Career choice is more than working to earn a living but also an important window into how we identify and feel about ourselves. There are multiple issues involved in every career choice, particularly in the pursuit of a career in music performance. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInfluenced by her hybrid background in music performance, psychology, and psychoanalysis, Julie Jaffee Nagel addresses the joys and challenges of career choice in music, with a specific focus upon the classical performing musician. She addresses a wide range of pressing topics related to such a career choice at a time when jobs and income for musicians are diminishing and COVID-19 has had a monumental, long-term impact on the arts. This includes feelings of burnout, career change and redirection, the need for self-care, mental health issues related to the lack of jobs and income, and the oftentimes crippling standards of professional performing musicians. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn addition, Nagel also points to potential opportunities and advocates new roles for musicians in the wake of a transformed music industry and society. Despite the numerous challenges performing musicians face in their careers, music can play a powerful role in mental life and society, helping us cope with the ravages and losses of the pandemic and other important events, and this can serve as much inspiration and reinvigorate professional musicians questioning the purpose of their career. All of these themes are developed through stories, clinical examples, anecdotes, research data, and personal reflection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJulie Nagel knows the field as a trained musical performer and a practicing clinician who is an international authority on work inhibition and performance block. There is none better!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e -- Peter Loewenberg, history and political psychology, professor emeritus, University of California Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrelude\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1 Work\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2 Musicians and Money in the Wake of the Pandemic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome Financial Facts: A Wake Up Call\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat Do Musicians Contribute?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Musician as “Product”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCreative Responses to the Pandemic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy Should You Care About Music?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYour Money or Your Life\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3 Musical Development and Psychological Development \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eErik Erikson: Development Over a Lifetime\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Ratios”: Life as a Balancing Act\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarolyn’s Monkey\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eErikson’s Eight Stages for the Musician\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEarly Stages (ages 1-4)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMiddle Stages (ages 5-7)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLate Stage: Stage 8 (ages 65+)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4 The Meaning of Money and “Psychic Income”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEarly Issues about Giving and Receiving\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAttention and Money: Symbolic Nourishment\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat Do Money and Stage Fright Share in Common?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow Much are You Worth?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Patrons and Angels\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuying Love\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNourishing Starving Artists\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5 Four Types of Personality Who Seek Music Careers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Identity Status Interview\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Four Categories of the ISI\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat Does ISI Data Explain?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKen: Integrating Past and Present\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion: Research and Clinical Work\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6 Pursuit of Perfection \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Disillusionment of Omnipotence\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrowing Pains and Emotional Growth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePursuit of Perfection: All the Right Notes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMs. G\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMr. D\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eResolution of Disillusionment: Grieving, Mourning, and Moving Forward\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7 The Golden Allure of Celebrity: Reflections on Boundary Crossings in Psychoanalysis and Music\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlanning for the Big Meeting\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTemptations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeeply Disappointed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe #MeToo Movement and Music Education\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA “Perfect Storm”: Private Music Lessons\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Rescue through “Love”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Higher Cost for Education\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInstitutional Collusions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Bad Apple Doesn’t Fall Far From the Tree\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTreatment Issues\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCoda\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8 Rethinking Music Education\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAsked and (as Yet) Unanswered Questions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTeaching Talented Musicians: The University and Conservatory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNurturing Healthy Musicians\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow to Destroy Creativity in Music Students: A Paraphrase of Otto Kernberg\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEducating Healthy People Who Are Musicians\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Healthy Music Profession\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9 Music and Mind Outside the Box\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Value of Music: Past and Future\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Impact of Music: Historical Precedents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMusicians and Mental Health Professionals as Non-Traditional First Responders\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMusic and Therapy in and beyond the Consulting Room\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeyond the Teaching Studio and Concert Hall\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHas Anything Good Resulted from the Pandemic?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Conclusion and a Beginning\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041230553431,"sku":"9781538168394","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781538168394.jpg?v=1750949452","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/career-choices-in-music-beyond-the-pandemic-musical-and-psychological-perspectives-9781538168394","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}