Valuing music in education : a Charles flower reader

Author

Additional Author(s)

• Resta, Craig

Publisher

New York: Oxford University press, 2017

Language

English

ISBN

9780199944385

Series

Subject(s)

• MUSIC--INSTRUCTION AND STUDY--SOCIAL ASPECTS--UNITED STATES.
• MUSIC--INSTRUCTION AND STUDY--UNITED STATES--HISTORY

Notes

. Bibliography: p. 279-281. Index: p. 283-294

Abstract

Noted music education and arts activist Charles Fowler has inspired music educators for more than 60 years. In this reader, editor Craig Resta brings together the most important of Fowler's writings from the journal Musical America for new generations of readers. Here, Fowler speaks to timeless critical advocacy issues from creativity in the classroom, to funding, to reform, to gender and race in music education. The articles are both research-based and practical,
and helpful for many of the most important concerns in school-based advocacy and scholarly inquiry today. Resta offers critical commentary with compelling background to these timeless pieces, placing them in a context that clarifies the benefit of their message to music and arts education.

Fowler's words speak to all who have a stake in music education: students, teachers, parents, administrators, performers, community members, business leaders, arts advocates, scholars, professors, and researchers alike. Valuing Music in Education is ideal for everyone who understands the critical role of music in schools and society.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

xiv, 294 p.

Dimension

24 cm.

Other Desc.

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Summary / Review / Table of Content

Foreword / Marie McCarthy & Bruce Wilson --
Section one : Music pedagogy and schooling --
National survey of musical performance --
Music In our Schools Day : an opportunity to take stock --
The accountability dilemma --
Arts in the schools : a comprehensive view --
High schools of the arts --
Musical achievement : good news & bad --
A look into the crystal ball --
Music : a basic intelligence --
The shameful neglect of creativity --
Academic excellence in teaching the arts --
Evaluation : pros and cons --
Music in our schools : the first 150 years --
Section two : Advocacy and arts education policy --
Education in the arts : getting it all together --
The role of the National Endowment (for the Arts) --
A new rationale for the arts in education --
What's wrong with music education? --
Funding for arts programs : the total is not so bleak --
Arts education : does the left hand know? --
Congress and the arts : getting with it --
Arts in basic education : a fight for life? --
Arts policy in the U.S : do we have one? --
Music for every child, every child for music --
Arts education triple jeopardy --
Section three : Arts, culture, and community --
The Smithsonian : teaching our musical heritage --
Valuing our cultural treasury --
The community school movement --
Senior citizen symphony brings music to children --
Public universities : the new cultural centers --
Reaching kids (part I) : how symphonies do it --
Reaching kids (part II) : how opera companies do it --
Whose culture should we teach? --
Section four : Music education and professional reform --
The Music Educators National Conference (MENC) : David faces new Goliaths --
The Tanglewood Symposium revisited --
Music in our schools : an agenda for the future --
Changing schools through the arts --
The lack of professionalism in higher education --
The lack of professionalism in higher education continued --
Music educators meet : but do they miss the point? --
Are teachers of the arts good enough? --
Educational reform : ferment in the arts --
Teacher overhaul : can we do it? --
Section five : Diversity and pluralism in music education --
Poverty : an ingrained idea --
Sex bias in the music room --
Special treatment for the gifted --
More arts for the handicapped --
Black participation at the Kennedy Center : goals are set for cultural diversity --
The Christmas carol hassle --
Arts by the handicapped --
Older Americans : a new resource of creative talent --
The many versus the few.

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