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  • Improvisation as Liberatory Praxis in Popular Music Education

    Edited by Gareth Dylan Smith, Zack Moir ...
    There is growing recognition that improvisation is a vital artistic and ontological practice that can promote developments in many areas of musicianship and beyond. Although improvisation is taught and assessed in education institutions throughout the world, pedagogical research on improvisation is disparate, emerging mainly from case-specific accounts of particular musical traditions, for ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • The Intellect Handbook of Popular Music Methodologies

    Edited by Mike Dines, Shara Rambarran, Gareth Dylan Smith ...
    The Intellect Handbook of Popular Music Methodologies provides a comprehensive overview of methodological approaches within the field of popular music studies. Alongside contributions from key thinkers already established in popular music studies, the strength of the collection lies in its inclusion of many new and emerging writers in the field. Therefore, the collection incorporates a wide range ... Read more

    $135.89 USD

  • A Philosophy of Playing Drum Kit

    Magical Nexus

    by Gareth Dylan Smith ...
    Series series Elements in Twenty-First Century Music Practice
    The author is a drummer with experience in a variety of musical genres and contexts, with emphasis on rock and related styles. This auto ethnographic Element presents the author's philosophy of playing drum kit. The text explains how playing drum kit matters to this musician and may resonate with others to whom making music matters in similar ways. The Element contains audio files of music in ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Places and Purposes of Popular Music Education

    Perspectives from the Field

    Edited by Bryan Powell, Gareth Dylan Smith ...
    This book provides a manuscript-megaphone for a variety of perspectives on popular music education, including those we do not usually hear from, but who are doing far and away the coolest, most relevant and most interesting things.It includes rants, manifestos, and pieces that are pithy and punchy and poignant, which have resulted in a wide tonal variety among chapters, from more traditionally ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Eudaimonia

    Perspectives for Music Learning

    Edited by Gareth Dylan Smith, Marissa Silverman ...
    Series series Routledge New Directions in Music Education Series
    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 ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Education

    Perspectives and Practices

    The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Educationdraws together current thinking and practice on popular music education from empirical, ethnographic, sociological and philosophical perspectives. Through a series of unique chapters from authors working at the forefront of music education, this book explores the ways in which an international group of music educators each approach popular music ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • I Drum, Therefore I Am

    Being and Becoming a Drummer

    by Gareth Dylan Smith ...
    Series series SEMPRE Studies in The Psychology of Music
    Despite their central role in many forms of music-making, drummers have been largely neglected in the scholarly literature on music and education. But kit drummers are increasingly difficult to ignore. While exponents of the drum kit are frequently mocked in popular culture, they are also widely acknowledged to be central to the musical success and aesthetic appeal of any musical ensemble in which ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Music Learning Profiles Project

    Let's Take This Outside

    by Radio Cremata, Bryan Powell, Gareth Dylan Smith, Joseph Pignato ...
    Series series Routledge New Directions in Music Education Series
    The Music Learning Profiles Project: Let’s Take This Outside uses ethnographic techniques and modified case studies to profile musicians active in a wide range of musical contexts not typically found in traditional music education settings. The book illuminates diverse music learning practices in order to impact music education in classrooms. It goes on to describe the Music Learning Profiles ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Music Making and Leisure

    Edited by Roger Mantie, Gareth Dylan Smith ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Music has been a vital part of leisure activity across time and cultures. Contemporary commodification, commercialization, and consumerism, however, have created a chasm between conceptualizations of music making and numerous realities in our world. From a broad range of perspectives and approaches, this handbook explores avocational involvement with music as an integral part of the human ... Read more

    $151.19 USD

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  • Musical Creativities in Practice

    by Pamela Burnard ...
    Musical Creativities in Practice explores the social and the cultural contexts in which creativity in music occurs. It begins by considering what constitutes creativity - taking a cross cultural view of music, while investigating creative processes far beyond just the classical music genre - including electronic media, popular music, and improvised music. In addition it looks at creativity in both ... Read more

    $83.69 USD

  • Improvisation and Music Education

    Beyond the Classroom

    Edited by Ajay Heble, Mark Laver ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Music Education
    This book offers compelling new perspectives on the revolutionary potential of improvisation pedagogy. Bringing together contributions from leading musicians, scholars, and teachers from around the world, the volume articulates how improvisation can breathe new life into old curricula; how it can help teachers and students to communicate more effectively; how it can break down damaging ideological ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Sociology for Music Teachers

    Practical Applications

    by Hildegard Froehlich, Gareth Smith ...
    Sociology for Music Teachers: Practical Applications, Second Edition, outlines the basic concepts relevant to understanding music teaching and learning from a sociological perspective. It demonstrates the relationship of music to education, schooling and society, and examines the consequences for making instructional choices in teaching methods and repertoire selection. The authors look at major ... Read more

    $68.99 USD