Full Description
Popular music is a growing presence in education, formal and otherwise, from primary school to postgraduate study. Programmes, courses and modules in popular music studies, popular music performance, songwriting and areas of music technology are becoming commonplace across higher education. Additionally, specialist pop/rock/jazz graded exam syllabi, such as RockSchool and Trinity Rock and Pop, have emerged in recent years, meaning that it is now possible for school leavers in some countries to meet university entry requirements having studied only popular music. In the context of teacher education, classroom teachers and music-specialists alike are becoming increasingly empowered to introduce popular music into their classrooms. At present, research in Popular Music Education lies at the fringes of the fields of music education, ethnomusicology, community music, cultural studies and popular music studies. The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Music Education is the first book-length publication that brings together a diverse range of scholarship in this emerging field. Perspectives include the historical, sociological, pedagogical, musicological, axiological, reflexive, critical, philosophical and ideological.
Contents
I. Introduction 1. Foreword 2. Popular Music Education (R)evolution 3.Popular Music Education: A Step into the Light II. Past, present and future 4. The Historical Foundations of Popular Music Education in the United States 5. Navigating the Space Between Spaces: Curricular Change in Popular Music Teacher Education in the United States 6. Developing Learning Through Producing: Secondary School Students' Experiences of a Technologically Aided Pedagogical Intervention 7. A Historical Review of the Social Dynamics of School Music Education in Mainland China: A Study of the Political Power of Popular Songs 8. Towards 21st Century Music Teaching-Learning: Reflections on Student-centric Pedagogic Practices Involving Popular Music in Singapore 9. Popular Music Education in Hong Kong: A Case Study of the Baron School of Music 10. Mediations, Institutions and Post-Compulsory Popular Music Education 11 Where to now? The Current Condition and Future Trajectory of Popular Music Studies in British Universities 12. Parallel, Series, and Integrated: Models of Tertiary Popular Music Education III. Curricula in popular music 13. Do The Stars Know Why They Shine? An Argument for Including Cultural Theory in Popular Music Programmes.../part contents
