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The out-of-this-world new adventure from number-one-bestselling
author of The Danger Gang and The Christmasaurus: Tom Fletcher.
George, Neila and Bash are the worst band on Earth. George wants
them to be brilliant - but Neila has stage fright, and Bash is too
distracted by his obsession with stars, aliens and faraway planets.
But what they lack in talent and confidence, they make up for in
heart. They're determined to blow their friends away at their
school Battle of the Bands contest. But the moment they start to
play... They're beamed up into space!!! Now the kids face an even
bigger challenge: Battle of the Bands, but the intergalactic
version. They're competing against alien bands from every galaxy!
And if they don't win, they might never make it home again... Can
the worst band on Earth become the best band in the universe? An
intergalactically awesome tale of celebrating difference, believing
in yourself, and the power of friendship. Listen to the
intergalactically awesome SPACE BAND soundtrack now, performed by
McFLY!
Marginalized Voices in Music Education explores the American
culture of music teachers by looking at marginalization and
privilege in music education as a means to critique prevailing
assumptions and paradigms. In fifteen contributed essays, authors
set out to expand notions of who we believe we are as music
educators -- and who we want to become. This book is a collection
of perspectives by some of the leading and emerging thinkers in the
profession, and identifies cases of individuals or groups who had
experienced marginalization. It shares the diverse stories in a
struggle for inclusion, with the goal to begin or expand
conversation in undergraduate and graduate courses in music teacher
education. Through the telling of these stores, authors hope to
recast music education as fertile ground for transformation,
experimentation and renewal.
Teaching Music Differently explores what music teachers do and why.
It offers insightful analysis of eight in-depth studies of teachers
in a range of settings - the early years, a special school, primary
and secondary schools, a college, a prison, a conservatoire and a
community choir - and demonstrates that pedagogy is not simply the
delivery of a curriculum or an enactment of a teaching plan.
Rather, a teacher's pedagogy is complex, nuanced and influenced by
a multitude of factors. Exploring the theories teachers hold about
their own teaching, it reveals that, even when teachers are engaged
with the same subject, their teaching varies substantially. It
analyses the differences in terms of agency - the knowledge and
skills that teachers bring to teaching, their expectations shaped
by their life histories, the ways in which they relate to their
students and the subject and their ideas about the content they
teach - what is important, what is interesting, what is difficult
for students to grasp. It also explores the constraints that are
imposed upon the teachers - by curriculum, policy, institutions,
society and the students themselves. Together with discussion of
key ideas for understanding the case studies, historical influences
on music pedagogy and the main discourses around music teaching,
Teaching Music Differently invites all music education
professionals to consider their own responses to pedagogical
discourses and to use these discourses to further the development
of the profession as a whole.
Featuring 11 spreads pairing elements of Janis Joplin with simple
words, this is the book for any Janis fan, young or old. The book
teaches babies and toddlers a variety of nouns (heart, baby, half
moon, pearl, tattoo, guitar, etc.). The last spread will feature
the words "Piece of My Heart" with Baby Janis and friends.
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The Story of Rap
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In Music Teachers' Values and Beliefs, Dwyer investigates the
relationships between teachers, learners and music in music
classrooms. Using Bourdieu's concepts of habitus and doxa as an
interpretive lens, the book explores the values and beliefs of four
music teachers, depicted in richly detailed narratives. The
narratives are contextualised through the examination of traditions
of music and contemporary approaches. In the past, music education
has been shaped by elitist tendencies regarding the types of music
worthy of study, the ways in which music should be learnt, and the
purpose of such learning. Contemporary approaches to music
education have enacted significant change in some regions and
systems, while others have been slower to leave behind deeply
entrenched values, beliefs and practices. These approaches have
been blamed for low rates of participation and engagement in school
music education, despite the fact that the majority of young people
listen to and enjoy music outside of school. This innovative book
provides music education researchers and practitioners with a new
understanding of the impact of teachers' personal values, beliefs
and experiences of music and music education on classroom practice,
and the impact this has on students' experiences of music
education.
From Governor General's Literary Award finalist Michelle Kadarusman
comes a novel about a young violinist who discovers her mother's
family secretly harbor a sanctuary for extinct Tasmanian tigers in
the remote Australian rainforest Shipped halfway around the world
to spend the summer with her mom's eccentric Australian relatives,
middle schooler and passionate violinist Louisa is prepared to be
resentful. But life at the family's remote camp in the Tasmanian
rainforest is intriguing, to say the least. There are pig-footed
bandicoots, scary spiders, weird noises and odors in the night, and
a quirky boy named Colin who cooks the most amazing meals. Not the
least strange is her Uncle Ruff, with his unusual pet and veiled
hints about something named Convict Rock. Finally, Louisa learns
the truth: Convict Rock is a sanctuary established by her
great-grandmother Eleanor-a sanctuary for Tasmanian tigers,
Australia's huge marsupials that were famously hunted into
extinction almost a hundred years ago. Or so the world believes.
Hidden in the rainforest at Convict Rock, one tiger remains. But
now the sanctuary is threatened by a mining operation, and the last
Tasmanian tiger must be lured deeper into the forest. The problem
is, not since her great-grandmother has a member of the family been
able to earn the shy tigers' trust. As the summer progresses,
Louisa forges unexpected connections with Colin, with the forest,
and-through Eleanor's journal-with her great-grandmother. She
begins to suspect the key to saving the tiger is her very own
music. But will her plan work? Or will the enigmatic Tasmanian
tiger disappear once again, this time forever? A moving
coming-of-age story wrapped up in the moss, leaves, and blue gums
of the Tasmanian rainforest where, hidden under giant ferns,
crouches its most beloved, and lost, creature.
Expanding the Space for Improvisation Pedagogy in Music is a
critical, research-based anthology exploring improvisation in music
pedagogy. The book broadens the understanding of the potentials and
possibilities for improvisation in a variety of music education
contexts and stimulates the development of knowledge and reflection
on improvisation. The book critically examines the challenges,
cultural values, aims and methods involved in improvisation
pedagogy. Written by international contributors representing a
variety of musical genres and research methodologies, it takes a
transdisciplinary approach and outlines a way ahead for
improvisation pedagogy and research, by providing a space for the
exchange of knowledge and critique. This book will be of great
interest to scholars, researchers, and postgraduate students in the
fields of arts education, music education, improvisation, music
psychology, musicology, ethnomusicology, artistic research and
community music. It will also appeal to music educators on all
levels in the field of music education and music psychology.
Music and Music Education as Social Praxis is a brief introduction
to a praxial theory of music education, defined by author. It is
grounded in an interdisciplinary approach, for undergraduate and
graduate students in music education. Drawing upon scholarship from
a range of disciplines, including philosophy and sociology, the
book emphasizes and highlights thinking of music as an active
social practice and offers an alternative to existing approaches to
music education. This text advocates for an alternative approach to
teaching music, rooted in the social practice of music, and will
supplement Foundations or Methods courses in the Music Education
curriculum.
Pierre Bourdieu has been an extraordinarily influential figure in
the sociology of music. For over four decades, his concepts have
helped to generate both empirical and theoretical interventions in
the field of musical study. His impact on the sociology of music
taste, in particular, has been profound, his ideas directly
informing our understandings of how musical preferences reflect and
reproduce inequalities between social classes, ethnic groups, and
men and women. Bourdieu and the Sociology of Music Education draws
together a group of international researchers, academics and
artist-practitioners who offer a critical introduction and
exploration of Pierre Bourdieu's rich generative conceptual tools
for advancing sociological views of music education. By employing
perspectives from Bourdieu's work on distinction and judgement and
his conceptualisation of fields, habitus and capitals in relation
to music education, contributing authors explore the ways in which
Bourdieu's work can be applied to music education as a means of
linking school (institutional habitus) and learning, and curriculum
and family (class habitus). The volume includes research
perspectives and studies of how Bourdieu's tools have been applied
in industry and educational contexts, including the primary,
secondary and higher music education sectors. The volume begins
with an introduction to Bourdieu's contribution to theory and
methodology and then goes on to deal in detail with illustrative
substantive studies. The concluding chapter is an extended essay
that reflects on, and critiques, the application of Bourdieu's work
and examines the ways in which the studies contained in the volume
advance understanding. The book contributes new perspectives to our
understanding of Bourdieu's tools across diverse settings and
practices of music education.
This book presents ground-breaking research on the ways the Arts
fosters motivation and engagement in both academic and non-academic
domains. It reports on mixed method, international research that
investigated how the Arts make a difference in the lives of young
people. Drawing on the findings of a longitudinal quantitative
study led by the internationally renowned educational psychologist
Andrew Martin, the book examines the impact of arts involvement in
the academic outcomes of 643 students and reports on the in-depth
qualitative research that investigates what constitutes
best-practice in learning and teaching in the Arts. The book also
examines drama, dance, music, visual arts and film classrooms to
construct an understanding of quality pedagogy in these classrooms.
With its evidence-based but highly accessible approach, this book
will be directly and immediately relevant to those interested in
the Arts as a force for change in schooling. How Arts Education
Makes a Difference discusses: The Arts Education, Motivation,
Engagement and Achievement Research Visual Arts, Drama and Music in
Classrooms Technology-mediated Arts Engagement International
Perspectives on Arts and Cultural Policies in Education This book
is a timely collation of research and experiential findings which
support the need to promote arts education in schools worldwide. It
will be particularly useful for educationists, researchers in
education and arts advocates.
From award-winning author Annette Bay Pimentel comes an oversize
nonfiction picture book exploring how music and musical instruments
are made-across time and around the worldMusic doesn't come out of
nothing.It always starts somewhere . . . with something . . . with
someone. Discover how music is made in this survey of musical
instruments from around the world. Organized by material-from wood
to gourds to found objects and more-Before Music marries a lyrical
core text with tons of informational material for curious
readers.In the narrative text, readers will encounter makers as
they source their materials and craft instruments by hand, drawing
the line from the natural world to the finished product and its
sound. The sidebars offer much more to discover, including
extensive instrument lists, short bios of musical innovators, and
more.
This book examines how music education presents opportunities to
shape democratic awareness through political, pedagogical, and
humanistic perspectives. Focusing on democracy as a vital dimension
in teaching music, the essays in this volume have particular
relevance to teaching music as democratic practice in both public
schooling and in teacher education. Although music educators have
much to learn from others in the educational field, the actual
teaching of music involves social and political dimensions unique
to the arts. In addition, teaching music as democratic practice
demands a pedagogical foundation not often examined in the general
teacher education community. Essays include the teaching of the
arts as a critical response to democratic participation; exploring
democracy in the music classroom with such issues as safe spaces,
sexual orientation, music of the Holocaust, improvisation, race and
technology; and music teaching/music teacher education as a form of
social justice. Engaging with current scholarship, the book not
only probes the philosophical nature of music and democracy, but
also presents ways of democratizing music curriculum and human
interactions within the classroom. This volume offers the
collective wisdom of international scholars, teachers, and teacher
educators and will be essential reading for those who teach music
as a vital force for change and social justice in both local and
global contexts.
Learn to play the trumpet with popular pieces - lessons and sheet
music for beginners The Abracadabra approach to learning through
songs and tunes has set countless beginners on a clear path of
progress and enjoyment with their chosen instrument. An established
and popular course offering a thorough grounding in basic
technique. Features include: * Carefully graded songs and tunes *
Clear guidance on theory and technique * Enough flexibility to suit
individual teaching approaches * Ensemble skills taught through
duets and trios * Playalong CD for home practice
Making science fun by applying core science learning to high
interest hobbies. In Fun Science Experiments with Music, learn
about the science behind singing, plucking and blowing. Find out
about sound waves by making sugar dance. Discover why music sounds
high or low. Jiggle your vocal cords! Add your own twist to all the
experiments, then perform on your home-made instruments. Have fun
with science by trying these exciting, surprising experiments.
Beautiful illustrations by Annie Wilkinson show how to master the
science and skills with clear step-by-step instructions and easily
accessible materials. Encourages readers to free their imagination
to ask questions, find their own solutions and create dazzling
results as a team. Suitable for readers 7 and up. Title in the
series: Experiments with Art Experiments with Plants Experiments
with Music Experiments with Cookery
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I Can with Van
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Michelle McKee Marlow, Cynthia Marlow, Megan Skeels
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Sometimes Michael gets stuck on a word. Come snuggle up with him as
he discovers that music can lead him on the path to fluent speech.
Following a musical note and a dream where he is visited by the
extraordinary pianist Van Cliburn, Michael goes on a wonderful
journey to "get the gold!" This is the sixth book in the authors'
series of Hard-to-Pronounce Letters.
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Get Me Out of Here!
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Andy McNab, Phil Earle; Illustrated by Robin Boyden
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Bestselling Andy McNab and award-winning Phil Earle join forces for
the very first time, and the results are hilarious! Danny Mack's
mates are brilliant: there's his best mate Giraffles (yeh, you read
that right), so-called because of his unusually long neck; the
MandM twins (you got it - like the chocolate) who are always
finishing each other's sentences; and Lucky Success, who, well I
reckon you can guess how he got his name. They're the best mates a
kid could ask for, and when an epic school trip is announced,
they're all properly made up about it. Because school trips are
just an excuse to have a big laugh with your mates, right? Erm,
WRONG. Let's just say that this is a school trip like no other, and
Danny, Giraffles, Lucky and the MandMs have got a real challenge on
their hands. Will they make it through? If Danny has anything to do
with it, you bet they will! Brilliantly illustrated by Robin
Boyden, illustrator of David Solomon's My Arch-Enemy is a Brain in
a Jar, and full of laughs and a lot of heart, Get Me Out of Here!
is without a doubt the book of the year.
Musical Childhoods is a culmination of more than a decade of
research driven by the fact that music has been neglected in early
childhood programs in favour of literacy and numeracy. Recent
research has identified a connection between academic performance
and musical programs and this has given music a renewed status in
many schools. This book promotes the idea of children's competence
in the use of the language of music and argues that all children
have a right to participate in musical discovery and celebrates
children's engagement with meaningful and disparate experiences in
music. Written by leading practitioners and researchers in the
field, this book seeks to reaffirm children's communicative
competence when exposed to high quality musical experience, provide
new perspectives on children's ability to engage with music in many
diverse forms and explore and promote the role of the musician as
an artist and teacher. The book is structured into three parts: The
theoretical overview The children, the musicians and the music The
research through the eyes of the protagonist and looking into the
future Early childhood students, researchers and academics with a
specific interest in music and musicality will find this an
insightful read.
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