Music Society Education

Author : Christopher Small
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780819572233

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Music, Society, Education by Christopher Small Pdf

Cited by Soundpost as "remarkable and revolutionary" upon its publication in 1977, Music, Society, Education has become a classic in the study of music as a social force. Christopher Small sets out to examine the social implications of Western classical music, effects that until recently have been largely ignored or dismissed by most musicologists. He strives to view the Western musical tradition "through the mirror of these other musics [Balinese and African] as it were from the outside, and in so doing to learn something of the inner unspoken nature of Western culture as a whole." As series co-editor Robert Walser writes, "By pointing to the complicity of Western culture with Western imperialism, Small challenges us to create a future that is more humane than the past. And by writing a book that enables us to rethink so fundamentally our involvements with music, he teaches us how we might get there."

Author : Christopher Small
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780819572257

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Music of the Common Tongue by Christopher Small Pdf

In clear and elegant prose, Music of the Common Tongue, first published in 1987, argues that by any reasonable reckoning of the function of music in human life the African American tradition, that which stems from the collision between African and European ways of doing music which occurred in the Americas and the Caribbean during and after slavery, is the major western music of the twentieth century. In showing why this is so, the author presents not only an account of African American music from its origins but also a more general consideration of the nature of the music act and of its function in human life. The two streams of discussion occupy alternate chapters so that each casts light on the other. The author offers also an answer to what the Musical Times called the "seldom posed though glaringly obtrusive" question: "why is it that the music of an alienated, oppressed, often persecuted black minority should have made so powerful an impact on the entire industrialized world, whatever the color of its skin or economic status?"

Author : Steven N. Kelly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317414988

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Teaching Music in American Society by Steven N. Kelly Pdf

Successful professional music teachers must not only be knowledgeable in conducting and performing, but also be socially and culturally aware of students, issues, and events that affect their classrooms. This book provides comprehensive overview of social and cultural themes directly related to music education, teacher training, and successful teacher characteristics. New topics in the second edition include the impact of Race to the Top, social justice, bullying, alternative schools, the influence of Common Core Standards, and the effects of teacher and school assessments. All topics and material are research-based to provide a foundation and current perspective on each issue.

Author : Heidi Westerlund,Sidsel Karlsen,Heidi Partti
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030210298

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Visions for Intercultural Music Teacher Education by Heidi Westerlund,Sidsel Karlsen,Heidi Partti Pdf

This open access book highlights the importance of visions of alternative futures in music teacher education in a time of increasing societal complexity due to increased diversity. There are policies at every level to counter prejudice, increase opportunities, reduce inequalities, stimulate change in educational systems, and prevent and counter polarization. Foregrounding the intimate connections between music, society and education, this book suggests ways that music teacher education might be an arena for the reflexive contestation of traditions, hierarchies, practices and structures. The visions for intercultural music teacher education offered in this book arise from a variety of practical projects, intercultural collaborations, and cross-national work conducted in music teacher education. The chapters open up new horizons for understanding the tension-fields and possible discomfort that music teacher educators face when becoming change agents. They highlight the importance of collaborations, resilience and perseverance when enacting visions on the program level of higher education institutions, and the need for change in re-imagining music teacher education programs.

Author : Geoffrey Baker
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781800641297

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Rethinking Social Action through Music by Geoffrey Baker Pdf

How can we better understand the past, present and future of Social Action through Music (SATM)? This ground-breaking book examines the development of the Red de Escuelas de Música de Medellín (the Network of Music Schools of Medellín), a network of 27 schools founded in Colombia’s second city in 1996 as a response to its reputation as the most dangerous city on Earth. Inspired by El Sistema, the foundational Venezuelan music education program, the Red is nonetheless markedly different: its history is one of multiple reinventions and a continual search to improve its educational offering and better realise its social goals. Its internal reflections and attempts at transformation shed valuable light on the past, present, and future of SATM. Based on a year of intensive fieldwork in Colombia and written by Geoffrey Baker, the author of El Sistema: Orchestrating Venezuela’s Youth (2014), this important volume offers fresh insights on SATM and its evolution both in scholarship and in practice. It will be of interest to a very varied readership: employees and leaders of SATM programs; music educators; funders and policy-makers; and students and scholars of SATM, music education, ethnomusicology, and other related fields.

Author : Richard Leppert,Susan McClary
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1989-06-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521379776

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Music and Society by Richard Leppert,Susan McClary Pdf

This provocative volume of essays is now available in paperback. The contributors to this volume - musicologists, sociologists, cultural theorists - all challenge the view that music occupies an autonomous aesthetic sphere. Recently, socially and politically grounded enterprises such as feminism, semiotics and deconstruction have effected a major transformation in the ways in which the arts and humanities are studied, leading in turn to a systematic investigation of the implicit assumptions underlying the critical methods of the last two hundred years. Influenced by these approaches, the writers here question a prevailing ideology that insists there is a division between music and society and examine the ways in which the two do in fact interact and mediate one another within and across socio-cultural boundaries.

Author : Christopher Small
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0714538930

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Music, Society, Education by Christopher Small Pdf

Author : C. Victor Fung
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190234461

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A Way of Music Education by C. Victor Fung Pdf

Based on Yijing, classic Confucianism, and classic Daoism, 'A Way of Music Education' proposes a philosophy of music education as a trilogy: change, balance, and liberation. Author C. Victor Fung presents an overview of the fundamentals of classic Chinese philosophy and offers their music educational interpretations. Fung's work also offers practical advice on how to integrate his theoretical models into real life situations.

Author : Georgina Barton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319954080

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Music Learning and Teaching in Culturally and Socially Diverse Contexts by Georgina Barton Pdf

This book examines the inter-relationship between music learning and teaching, and culture and society: a relationship that is crucial to comprehend in today’s classrooms. The author presents case studies from diverse music learning and teaching contexts – including South India and Australia and online learning environments – to compare the modes of transmission teachers use to share their music knowledge and skills. It is imperative to understand the ways in which culture and society can in fact influence music teachers’ beliefs and experiences: and in understanding, there is potential to improve intercultural approaches to music education more generally. In increasingly diverse schools, the author highlights the need for culturally appropriate approaches to music planning, assessment and curricula. Thus, music teachers and learners will be able to understand the diversity of music education, and be encouraged to embrace a variety of methods and approaches in their own teaching. This inspiring book will be of interest and value to all those involved in teaching and learning music in various contexts.

Author : Edward W. Sarath
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781438447230

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Improvisation, Creativity, and Consciousness by Edward W. Sarath Pdf

Jazz, America's original art form, can be a catalyst for creative and spiritual development. With its unique emphasis on improvisation, jazz offers new paradigms for educational and societal change. In this provocative book, musician and educator Edward W. Sarath illuminates how jazz offers a continuum for transformation. Inspired by the long legacy of jazz innovators who have used meditation and related practices to bring the transcendent into their lives and work, Sarath sees a coming shift in consciousness, one essential to positive change. Both theoretical and practical, the book uses the emergent worldview known as Integral Theory to discuss the consciousness at the heart of jazz and the new models and perspectives it offers. On a more personal level, the author provides examples of his own involvement in educational reform. His design of the first curriculum at a mainstream educational institution to incorporate a significant meditation and consciousness studies component grounds a radical new vision.

Author : Keith Swanwick
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780415094436

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A Basis for Music Education by Keith Swanwick Pdf

Designed for all music teachers, this book provides a careful and clear examination and analysis of the fundamental concepts involved in music. Professor Swanwick investigates questions such as: What is music? Is music meaningful? Does music refine our feelings and emotions? If so, how? The discussion of these questions forms a conceptual framework, which will motivate further thinking and development in music education.

Author : Gabriel Solis,Bruno Nettl
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780252076541

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Musical Improvisation by Gabriel Solis,Bruno Nettl Pdf

A musical practice used for centuries the world over, improvisation too often has been neglected by scholars who dismiss it as either technically undissectible or inexplicably mysterious. At different times and in different cultures, performing music that is not "precomposed" has constituted an artful expression of the performer's individuality (the Baroque); a wild, unthinking form of expression (jazz antagonists); and the best method to train inexperienced musicians to use their instruments (the Middle East). This wide-ranging collection of essays considers musical improvisation from a variety of approaches, including ethnomusicology, education, performance, historical musicology, and music theory. Laying the groundwork for even further research into improvisation, the contributors of this volume delve into topics as diverse as the creative minds of Mozart and Beethoven, the place of improvised musics in Western and non-Western societies, and the development of jazz as a musical and cultural phenomenon.

Author : Wayne D. Bowman,Ana Lucía Frega
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780195394733

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The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Music Education by Wayne D. Bowman,Ana Lucía Frega Pdf

In The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Music Education, editors Wayne D. Bowman and Ana Lucia Frega have drawn together a variety of philosophical perspectives from the profession's most exciting scholars from all over the world. Rather than relegating philosophical inquiry to moot questions and abstract situations, the contributors to this volume address everyday concerns faced by music educators everywhere. Emphasizing clarify, fairness, rigor, and utility above all, The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Music Education will challenge music educators all over the world to make their own decisions and ultimately contribute to the conversation themselves.

Author : Andrew King,Evangelos Himonides,S. Alex Ruthmann
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317415138

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The Routledge Companion to Music, Technology, and Education by Andrew King,Evangelos Himonides,S. Alex Ruthmann Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Music, Technology, and Education is a comprehensive resource that draws together burgeoning research on the use of technology in music education around the world. Rather than following a procedural how-to approach, this companion considers technology, musicianship, and pedagogy from a philosophical, theoretical, and empirically-driven perspective, offering an essential overview of current scholarship while providing support for future research. The 37 chapters in this volume consider the major aspects of the use of technology in music education: Part I. Contexts. Examines the historical and philosophical contexts of technology in music. This section addresses themes such as special education, cognition, experimentation, audience engagement, gender, and information and communication technologies. Part II. Real Worlds. Discusses real world scenarios that relate to music, technology, and education. Topics such as computers, composition, performance, and the curriculum are covered here. Part III. Virtual Worlds. Explores the virtual world of learning through our understanding of media, video games, and online collaboration. Part IV. Developing and Supporting Musicianship. Highlights the framework for providing support and development for teachers, using technology to understand and develop musical understanding. The Routledge Companion to Music, Technology, and Education will appeal to undergraduate and post-graduate students, music educators, teacher training specialists, and music education researchers. It serves as an ideal introduction to the issues surrounding technology in music education.

Author : Alex Lubet
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781439900277

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Music, Disability, and Society by Alex Lubet Pdf

"In Music, Disability, and Society Alex Lubet identifies the utility of bringing a disability studies perspective to the field of music studies. His book helps to demonstrate not only the significance of disabled people's presence in the history of music, but, even more importantly, the difference that disability makes in the production of the art form itself. The work will help to spur new work in this interdisciplinary arena for years to come."---David Mitchell, Temple University --Book Jacket.