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Education, Music, and the Lives of Undergraduates - Collegiate A Cappella and the Pursuit of Happiness (Paperback)
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Education, Music, and the Lives of Undergraduates - Collegiate A Cappella and the Pursuit of Happiness (Paperback)
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The undergraduate years are a special time of life for many
students. They are a time for study, yes, but also a time for
making independent decisions over what to do beyond formal
education. This book is based on a nine-year study of collegiate a
cappella - a socio-musical practice that has exploded on college
campuses since the 1990s. A defining feature of collegiate a
cappella is that it is a student-run leisure activity undertaken by
undergraduate students at institutions both large and small,
prestigious and lower-status. With rare exceptions, participants
are not music majors yet many participants interviewed had previous
musical experience both in and out of school settings. Motivations
for staying musically involved varied considerably - from those who
felt they could not imagine life without a musical outlet to those
who joined on a whim. Collegiate a cappella is about much more than
singing cover songs. It sustains multiple forms of inequality
through its audition practices and its performative enactment of
gender and heteronormativity. This book sheds light on how
undergraduates conceptualize vocation and avocation within the
context of formal education, holding implications for educators at
all levels.
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