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Chances and Choices - Exploring the Impact of Music Education (Hardcover)
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Chances and Choices - Exploring the Impact of Music Education (Hardcover)
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Chances and Choices: Exploring the Impact of Music Education
considers the aims and impact of formative musical experiences,
evaluating the extent to which music education of various kinds
provides a foundation for lifelong involvement and interest in
music. The discussion draws upon rich qualitative data, in which
over 100 adults with an active interest in music reflect upon the
influences and opportunities that shaped their musical life
histories. Pitts addresses the relationship between the claims made
for music education, the practice and policy through which those
aims are filtered, and the recollections of the lived experiences
of learning music in a variety of contexts. This consideration of
school music is set in the broader context of learning in the home
and community, and illustrates the circumscribed yet immensely
powerful role that music teachers and other potential role models
can play in nurturing open-minded, active musicians. The four
central chapters focus on generational change in home and school
experiences of music; the locations in which musical learning takes
place, including cross-cultural comparisons; the characteristics of
teachers, parents and others as musical mentors and role models;
and the lifelong outcomes of musical engagement for performers,
teachers, listeners and adult learners. This analysis is then used
to illuminate the claims made for music education in historical and
contemporary debate, and to propose ways in which school music
might better prepare young people for lifelong engagement in music.
Poised to shed new light on the long-term effects of music
education, this book is an important resource to understand how we
can encourage lifelong involvement with music and general
engagement in cultural activities in every individual.
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