2024 Volume 53 Issue 2 Pages 13-24
The purpose of this article is to elucidate the reality of a modern musician career called “Protean Career”, in which a wide variety of music-related jobs are performed. Specifically, it aims to clarify how this career is formed after going through a music university, where the traditional musician career model of actively leveraging specialized skills as a performer is likely to be internalized. Additionally, it seeks to reveal how learning at a music university is attributed with meaning in the Protean Career perspective. To investigate in detail the relationships between various personal experiences without compromising individuality, a case study was conducted using the life story method to analyze the narratives obtained. As a result, in the career perspective of Protean Career, work that deviates from specialized skills is also positively included, and a transformation of values based on relationships with the surroundings was recognized in the formation process. Learning at a music university was perceived as being in opposition to the learning required for Protean Career.
