Thinking Outside the Voice Box offers the choral music educator refreshed and valuable information and ideas for understanding and teaching the complete adolescent undergoing voice change. Sweet's knowledgeable and uplifting approach makes the subject of this book both provocative and pleasant to read.
Bridget Sweet is Associate Professor of Music Education at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where she teaches music education pedagogy, including choral methods and literature, middle-level general music methods, graduate courses in music education, as well as a course focused on the development of healthy practices for all musicians. Sweet has worked extensively with adolescent singers as a teacher, clinician, and adjudicator. She is
author of Growing Musicians: Teaching Music in Middle School and Beyond (2016) and her research interests include middle level choral music education, female and male adolescent voice change, educating and empowering adolescent music students, and intersections of diversity and the music
classroom.