Author: Randy Earles
Subject: The nature of publishing today?
As a composer who is also an administrator at a research institution, I can speak to this issue.
We all know the limitations of appealing to commercial publishers. That is not the important metric for evaluating composition faculty. More importance is placed on performances. Who is performing your music, and in what venues? Publication is a means to an end in this regard.
Publishing in other academic fields is very different, and does not depend on commercial appeal. It depends on peer review. (I evaluate faculty in all of the fine arts and humanities. [...]
Subject: The nature of publishing today?
As a composer who is also an administrator at a research institution, I can speak to this issue.
We all know the limitations of appealing to commercial publishers. That is not the important metric for evaluating composition faculty. More importance is placed on performances. Who is performing your music, and in what venues? Publication is a means to an end in this regard.
Publishing in other academic fields is very different, and does not depend on commercial appeal. It depends on peer review. (I evaluate faculty in all of the fine arts and humanities. [...]