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Eudaimonia: Perspectives for Music Learning asserts the fertile
applications of eudaimonia-an Aristotelian concept of human
flourishing intended to explain the nature of a life well lived-for
work in music learning and teaching in the 21st century. Drawing
insights from within and beyond the field of music education,
contributors reflect on what the "good life" means in music,
highlighting issues at the core of the human experience and the
heart of schooling and other educational settings. This pursuit of
personal fulfillment through active engagement is considered in
relation to music education as well as broader social, political,
spiritual, psychological, and environmental contexts. Especially
pertinent in today's complicated and contradictory world,
Eudaimonia: Perspectives for Music Learning is a concise compendium
on this oft-overlooked concept, providing musicians with an
understanding of an ethically-guided and socially-meaningful
music-learning paradigm.
Eudaimonia: Perspectives for Music Learning asserts the fertile
applications of eudaimonia-an Aristotelian concept of human
flourishing intended to explain the nature of a life well lived-for
work in music learning and teaching in the 21st century. Drawing
insights from within and beyond the field of music education,
contributors reflect on what the "good life" means in music,
highlighting issues at the core of the human experience and the
heart of schooling and other educational settings. This pursuit of
personal fulfillment through active engagement is considered in
relation to music education as well as broader social, political,
spiritual, psychological, and environmental contexts. Especially
pertinent in today's complicated and contradictory world,
Eudaimonia: Perspectives for Music Learning is a concise compendium
on this oft-overlooked concept, providing musicians with an
understanding of an ethically-guided and socially-meaningful
music-learning paradigm.
Community Music Today highlights community music workers who
constantly improvise and reinvent to lead through music and other
expressive media. It answers the perennial question "What is
community music?" through a broad, international palette of
contextual shades, hues, tones, and colors. With over fifty
musician/educators participating, the book explores community music
in global contexts, interconnections, and marginalized communities,
as well as artistry and social justice in performing ensembles.
This book is both a response to and a testimony of what music is
and can do, music's place in people's lives, and the many ways it
unites and marks communities. As documented in case studies,
community music workers may be musicians, teachers, researchers,
and activists, responding to the particular situations in which
they find themselves. Their voices are the threads of the
multifaceted tapestry of musical practices at play in formal,
informal, nonformal, incidental, and accidental happenings of
community music.
In the bleak cage of the Soviet Union, a brilliant pianist,
inspired by the music of Olivier Messiaen, survived and triumphed.
This is his story, told partly in his own words. Interlacing
material from previously unknown Russian archives, original
recordings, photographs, and essays, Gregory Haimovsky: A Pianist's
Odyssey to Freedom is the story of an extraordinary Russian concert
pianist who, fighting the cultural prohibitions of the USSR,
eventually succeeded in performing and recording major works by the
prominent French composer Olivier Messiaen. At the lowest point of
his life, expelled from Moscow and exiled to a small provincial
city, Haimovsky discovered Messiaen's oeuvre uncatalogued and
hidden in the library of the Union of Soviet Composers. Haimovsky's
intense studies and Soviet premieres of these banned compositions
healed and liberated his mind, spirit, and artistic imagination.
Messiaen's music also deepened and fueled Haimovsky's fierce
personal and musical opposition to Soviet political and cultural
doctrines. Told partly in Haimovsky's own words and supplemented by
interviews with several performers who worked with him between 1960
and 1972 as well as stories from his correspondence with major
Russian artists, writers, and musicians of the time, Marissa
Silverman's vivid narrative sheds new light on relationships
between twentieth-century Russian music, Soviet politics, and the
culture wars that raged during and after Stalin's barbaric rule.
Marissa Silverman is Associate Professor of Music at the John J.
Cali School of Music, Montclair State University.
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Community Music Today (Paperback)
Kari K Veblen, Stephen J. Messenger, Marissa Silverman, David J. Elliott
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R1,504
Discovery Miles 15 040
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Community Music Today highlights community music workers who
constantly improvise and reinvent to lead through music and other
expressive media. It answers the perennial question "What is
community music?" through a broad, international palette of
contextual shades, hues, tones, and colors. With over fifty
musician/educators participating, the book explores community music
in global contexts, interconnections, and marginalized communities,
as well as artistry and social justice in performing ensembles.
This book is both a response to and a testimony of what music is
and can do, music's place in people's lives, and the many ways it
unites and marks communities. As documented in case studies,
community music workers may be musicians, teachers, researchers,
and activists, responding to the particular situations in which
they find themselves. Their voices are the threads of the
multifaceted tapestry of musical practices at play in formal,
informal, nonformal, incidental, and accidental happenings of
community music.
Teaching Music for Social Justice offers a fresh, innovative
approach to teaching general music. This book is a timely
collection of lesson plans and units that artfully blend music
making with relevant issues of social justice. Particularly
accessible to middle and high school classroom music teachers, it
includes a companion website with links to all of the music
listening and videos. Authors Lisa C. DeLorenzo and Marissa
Silverman, accomplished music educators with extensive careers
thinking about the relationship between music education and social
justice, have composed student-centered lessons with thoughtful
discussion prompts, experiences with diverse genres and styles of
music, and technology-integrated music making projects that will
activate students' creativity and empathy. Unit topics-ranging from
"War" to "Climate Change"-include cross-disciplinary lessons with
the arts playing a central role in developing understanding.
Well-researched introductory materials as well as "how-to" guides
for topics, such as "composing in the classroom," make the text
especially practical and approachable. This book is an essential
resource, with ready-to-go lessons and classroom materials. Music
teachers will now have a unique, new lens for engaging students in
purposeful music making toward social justice.
This first-of-its-kind compendium unites perspectives from artists,
scholars, arts educators, policymakers and activists to investigate
the complex system of values surrounding artistic-educational
endeavors. Addressing a range of artistic domains, ranging from
music and dance, to visual arts and storytelling, contributors
offer an exploration and criticism of the conventions that govern
our interactions with these practices. Artistic Citizenship focuses
the responsibilities, and functions of amateur as well as
professional artists in society, and introduces a novel set of
ethics that are conventionally dismissed in discourses on the
topic. The authors address the questions: How does the concept of
citizenship relate to the arts? What socio-cultural, political, and
ethical "goods" can artistic engagements create for people
worldwide? Do particular artistic endeavors have distinctive
potentials for nurturing artistic citizenship? What are the most
effective strategies in the arts to institute change and/or resist
local, national, and world problems? What responsibilities do
artists and consumers of art have in order to facilitate the
relationship between the arts and citizenship? How can artistic
activities contribute to the eradication of various 'ism's? A
substantial accompanying website features video clips of
arts-in-action, videotaped interviews with scholars and
practitioners in a variety of global sites, a blog, and
supplementary resources about existing and emerging initiatives.
Thoroughly researched and engagingly written, Artistic Citizenship
is an essential text for artists, scholars, policy makers,
educators, and students.
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