What's So Important About Music Education?

ISBN-13: 9780415800549 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 352 str.

J. Scott Goble

Opis

What’s So Important about Music Education? addresses the history of rationales provided for music education in the United States. J. Scott Goble explains how certain factors stemming from the nation's constitutional separation of church and state, its embrace of democracy and capitalism, and the rise of recording, broadcast, and computer technologies have brought about changes in the ways music teachers and concerned others have conceptualized music and its importance in education. In demonstrating how many of the personal and societal benefits of engagement in "musical activity" have come to be obscured in the nation’s increasingly diverse public forum, Goble also argues for the importance of musical activity in human life and for the importance of music in education. The book concludes with a model for teaching the musical practices of the nation's constituent cultural groups in schools in terms of their respective cultural meanings.

Spis treści

1. Music as an Academic Subject in the Public Schools of the United States: An Inherent Cultural Tension  2. "Culture," "Worldview," and Pragmatism: The Philosophy and Semiotic of Charles Sanders Peirce  3. A Pragmatic Conception of Musical Practices: "Music" as a Sign of Worldview  4. Conceptions of Music in the United States  5. A Brief Historical Survey of Concepts of Music in Music Education in the United States  6. Community, Autonomy, and Music Education in the Postmodern United States: Summary and Recommendations

O autorze

J. Scott Goble is a musician, teacher, scholar, and conductor who has presented lectures, classes, and workshops and conducted choirs and orchestras throughout North America. He is Associate Professor of Music Education at the University of British Columbia.