How Popular Musicians Learn: A Way Ahead for Music Education (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.49 (510 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0754632261 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 250 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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It galvanises a number of ideas which have been developing over the past decade to question received knowledge.' Research Studies in Music Education ' fascinating and challenging The quality of her empirical research, the entertaining and revealing interviews, their lucid analysis, the setting out of the popular music learning experience, along with the breadth of theoretical material brought to bear on her findings, all make for a thought-provoking and important book that we ignore at our peril.' British Journal of Music Education . 'Dr Lucy Green's work deserves a wider readership than academics and music educators. Green's ability to analyze and synthesize the data and her skillful writing allow the reader to better understand the motivation and learning habits of popular musicians an interesting addition to the literature on music learning.' Music Education Research 'While this book will be of overt interest to music educators, its net is cast much
How do they go about this process? Despite the fact that popular music has recently entered formal music education, we have as yet a limited understanding of the learning practices adopted by its musicians. Her follow-up book, Music, Informal Learning and the School: A New Classroom Pedagogy (2008) appears in the same Ashgate series.. Could the creation of a teaching culture that recognizes and rewards aural imitation, improvisation and experimentation, as well as commitment and passion, encourage more people to make music? Since the hardback publication of this book in 2001, the author has explored many of its themes through practical work in school classrooms. Through a comparison of the characteristics of informal pop music learning with those of more formal music education, the book offers insights into how we might re-invigorate t
Her other books include Music, Informal Learning and the School: A New Classroom Pedagogy (2008); Music, Gender, Education (1997) and Music on Deaf Ears (1988). Lucy Green is Professor of Music Education at the Institute of Education, University of London.
Works for generalist teachers too I really liked this book - so much so that I sought out other books by this author. The book examines how professional musicians in the popular music genre do their work and discover how songs are constructed so they can play them. I am a generalist teacher who is expected to teach music but I can't do this from a position of p. MDTMOF said Gutes Buch !. Ein interessantes Buch, das die "lebendige" Musikkultur ernst nimmt, v.a. ihre Reproduktionsstrukturen quasi ethnografisch untersucht. Darin fuer mich sehr anregend. Lucy Greens Femi-Schwachsinn ist unausstehlich, dieses Buch ist wirklich gut, auch wenn der Titel mir anfangs sehr selbstsicher daherkam !