Music Education for the New Millennium: Theory and Practice Futures for Music Teaching and Learning (Educational...

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 176 pages
• Published by: Wiley-Blackwell March 3, 2006
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1405136588
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1405136587
• Book Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.7 x 0.5 inches
• Weighs: 10.6 ounces

Product Description
This volume challenges readers to think about what music means in contemporary society, and how music education can remain culturally relevant in the new millennium.

• A collection of thought-provoking philosophical perspectives on music education.
  
• Explores the changing ways in which music is being produced, disseminated and received.
  
• Considers how current phenomena such as the commoditization of music, the use of new technologies, and access to hybrid music forms, relate to music education.
  
• Covers themes such as pragmatism, performativity, cultural identity, emotion, autonomy and globalization.
  
• Asks how music teaching and learning can remain culturally relevant.

Back Cover Copy
Recent years have seen rapid changes in the ways in which music is produced, disseminated and received. This volume brings together leading theorists in order to explore what these changes mean for music education in the new millennium.



In a series of thought-provoking essays, the contributors consider how musicians and music educators might relate to changing music perspectives and music phenomena in contemporary society. In doing so, they address themes such as pragmatism, performativity, cultural identity, emotion, autonomy and globalization.



The book challenges readers to think about what music means in contemporary society, and asks how music education can remain culturally relevant in the twenty-first century.