Hooray Professor Lucy Green's classic text is now available, in its second edition, to a new generation. The first edition contributed to the development of a new field, the sociology of music education. But the argument is of wider interest, and has been useful to me in better understanding the mechanics of the professional life as applicable to the working player. Robert Fripp, King Crimson RESPONSES TO THE FIRST EDITION OF MUSIC ON DEAF EARS: This is a fine book indeed. The clarity of mind shining through the text is apparent, and the concern with music, musical experience and the...
Hooray Professor Lucy Green's classic text is now available, in its second edition, to a new generation. The first edition contributed to the develop...
Popular musicians acquire some or all of their skills and knowledge informally, outside school or university, and with little help from trained instrumental teachers. 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. Nor do we know why so many popular musicians in the past turned away from music education, or how young popular musicians today are responding to it. Drawing on a series of interviews with musicians aged between fifteen and...
Popular musicians acquire some or all of their skills and knowledge informally, outside school or university, and with little help from trained instru...
