Full Description
As the landscape of choral education changes - disrupted by Glee, YouTube, and increasingly cheap audio production software - teachers of choral conducting need current research in the field that charts scholarly paths through contemporary debates and sets an agenda for new critical thought and practice. Where, in the digitizing world, is the field of choral pedagogy moving? Editor Frank Abrahams and Paul D. Head, both experienced choral conductors and teachers, offer here a comprehensive handbook of newly-commissioned chapters that provide key scholarly-critical perspectives on teaching and learning in the field of choral music, written by academic scholars and researchers in tandem with active choral conductors.
As chapters in this book demonstrate, choral pedagogy encompasses everything from conductors' gestures to the administrative management of the choir. The contributors to The Oxford Handbook of Choral Pedagogy address the full range of issues in contemporary choral pedagogy, from repertoire to voice science to the social and political aspects of choral singing. They also cover the construction of a choral singer's personal identity, the gendering of choral ensembles, social justice in choral education, and the role of the choral art in society more generally. Included scholarship focuses on both the United States and international perspectives in five sections that address traditional paradigms of the field and challenges to them; critical case studies on teaching and conducting specific populations (such as international, school, or barbershop choirs); the pedagogical functions of repertoire; teaching as a way to construct identity; and new scholarly methodologies in pedagogy and the voice.
Contents
Theory
I. Challenging Traditional Paradigms
1. Critical Pedagogy as Choral Pedagogy
Frank Abrahams
2. Choral Pedagogy Responds to the Media: American Idol, Glee, The Voice, The Sing-Off, and DEL
Patricia Madura Ward-Steinman
3. The Choral Experience - Turned Inside Out
Paul Head
4. Going Green: The Application of Lucy Green's Informal Music Learning Strategies in High School
Choral Ensembles
Frank Abrahams
5. "Let the Whole World Rejoice!" Choral Music Education: The Kodály Perspective
László Norbert Nemes
II. Construction of Identity and Meaning
6. Fostering Musical and Personal Agency: Considering the Conductor
Daniel Abrahams
7. Choral Pedagogy and the Construction of Identity
Liz Garnett
8. Choral Pedagogy and the Construction of Identity: Boys
Scott Harrison and Anthony Young
9. Choral Pedagogy and the Construction of Identity: Girls
Matthew Owens and Graham Welch
10. Collaboration and Meaning-Making in the Women's Choral Rehearsal
Nana Wolfe-Hill
11. Choral Pedagogy and the Construction of Meaning
Frank Abrahams and Daniel Abrahams
III. World Perspectives
12. The Framing of Choirs and the Conductors: A U.K. Perspective
Colin Durrant
13. Striving for Authenticity in Learning and Teaching South African Choral Music
Mollie Stone
14. Conducting Corporate Choirs in Brazil
Eduardo Lakschevitz
15. Investigating Choral Pedagogies: The State of the Choral Art in Germany
Martin Ramroth
Practice
IV. Repertoire as Pedagogy
16. The Art of Successful Programming: Study, Selection, and Synthesis
Richard Bjella
17. Choral Repertoire as Pedagogy: Western Art Music
Dennis Shrock
18. Diverse Cultures
Mary Goetze
V. Teaching and Conducting Diverse Populations
19. Adult Community Choruses: A Lifespan Perspective
Susan Avery
20. "A different kind of goose bump": Notes towards an LGBTQ Choral Pedagogy
Charles Beale
21. The Inclusion Conundrum and Community Children's Choirs in Canada
Deborah Bradley
22. Professional Adult Choirs
Jason Vodicka and Simon Carrington
23. Teaching and Conducting Diverse Populations: Boychoir
Craig Denison
24. Black Gospel Choral Music: Identity, Race, Religion, and Community
J. Donald Dumpson
25. The Gang Mentality of Choirs: How Choirs Have the Capacity to Transform Lives
Arreon Harley
26. Collegiate Men's Chorus
Paul Rardin
VI. Choral Pedagogy and the Voice
27. Vocal Pedagogy in the Choral Rehearsal
Duane Cottrell
