The empirical research carried out by the author on a significant number of students who graduated from Italian Conservatories in the first Nineties offers a detailed picture of the expectations, conditions and social constructions of aspiring musicians. At the same time, grave difficulties emerge from the different attempts of these young men to start a career in the realization of an actual matching between imagination and reality. From here, a new research work arises the question as to whether a century-old institution as it is the Conservatory can have implications for its students on the process of building a personal professional identity within a radically changed social context. An institution risks to turn its traditional heritage into a useless burden if it does not have the courage to run the risk of comparing itself with the context in which it happens to operate.
How a cultural institution “doesn’t change”: the case of musical Conservatory in Italy
BELLINI, Pier Paolo
2014-01-01
Abstract
The empirical research carried out by the author on a significant number of students who graduated from Italian Conservatories in the first Nineties offers a detailed picture of the expectations, conditions and social constructions of aspiring musicians. At the same time, grave difficulties emerge from the different attempts of these young men to start a career in the realization of an actual matching between imagination and reality. From here, a new research work arises the question as to whether a century-old institution as it is the Conservatory can have implications for its students on the process of building a personal professional identity within a radically changed social context. An institution risks to turn its traditional heritage into a useless burden if it does not have the courage to run the risk of comparing itself with the context in which it happens to operate.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
