Learning, Teaching, and Musical Identity : Voices across Cultures

Musical identity raises complex, multifarious, and fascinating questions. Discussions in this new study consider how individuals construct their musical identities in relation to their experiences of formal and informal music teaching and learning. Each chapter features a different case study situat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Green, Lucy
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2011
Edition:1st ed
Series:Counterpoints: Music and Education
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Globalization and Localization of Learning, Teaching, and Musical Identity
  • 1 The Permeable Classroom: Learning, Teaching, and Musical Identity in a Remote Australian Aboriginal Homelands School
  • 2 Popular Music Listening as "Non-Resistance"
  • 3 From Homeland to Hong Kong
  • 4 Village, Province, and Nation
  • 5 Music for a Postcolonial Child
  • 6 Continuity and Change
  • 7 "Music Is in Our Blood"
  • 8 Greek Popular Music and the Construction of Musical Identities by Greek-Cypriot School Children
  • 9 Music-Learning and the Formation of Local Identity through the Philharmonic Society Wind Bands of Corfu
  • 10 Playing with Barbie: Exploring South African Township Children's Musical Games as Resources for Pedagogy
  • 11 Personal, Local, and National Identities in Ghanaian Performance Ensembles
  • 12 Music Festivals in the Lapland Region
  • 13 Shaping a Music Teacher Identity in Sweden
  • 14 Icelandic Men and Their Identity in Songs and in Singing
  • 15 Discovering and Affirming Musical Identity through Extracurricular Music-Making in English Secondary Schools
  • 16 Scottish Traditional Music: Identity and the"Carrying Stream"
  • 17 Performance, Transmission, and Identity among Ireland's New Generation of Traditional Musicians
  • 18 Fostering a "Musical Say": Identity, Expression, and Decision Making in a US School Ensemble
  • 19 Diversity, Identity, and Learning Styles among Students in a Brazilian University
  • 20 SIMPhonic Island: Exploring Musical Identity and Learning in Virtual Space
  • List of Contributors
  • Index