Musician-Teacher Collaboration explores different perspectives in educational settings. In twenty chapters, it is written by experienced scholars from ten countries who seek to explore music-in-education collaborations and present leading debates and issues in order to identify pertinent questions: How can the role of visiting musicians be perceived by various stakeholders? What opportunities and challenges could they bring to educational settings? Equally important, the teacher's positions within such collaborations must be discussed: How are teachers perceived? How can...

Musician-Teacher Collaboration explores different perspectives in educational settings. In twenty chapters, it is written by experienced scholars from ten countries who seek to explore music-in-education collaborations and present leading debates and issues in order to identify pertinent questions: How can the role of visiting musicians be perceived by various stakeholders? What opportunities and challenges could they bring to educational settings? Equally important, the teacher's positions within such collaborations must be discussed: How are teachers perceived? How can...

Every day people come together to make music. Whether amateur or professional, young or old, jazz enthusiasts or rock stars, what is common to all of these musical groups is the potential to create communities of musical practice (CoMP). Such communities are created through practices: ways of engaging, rules, membership, roles, identities and learning that is both shared through collective musical endeavour and situated within certain sociocultural contexts. Ailbhe Kenny investigates CoMP as a rich model for community engagement, musical participation and transformation in music...