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  • Loving Music Till It Hurts

    by William Cheng ...
    Can music feel pain? Do songs possess dignity? Do symphonies have rights? Of course not, you might say. Yet think of how we anthropomorphize music, not least when we believe it has been somehow mistreated. A singer butchered or mangled the "Star-Spangled Banner" at the Super Bowl. An underrehearsed cover band made a mockery of Led Zeppelin's classics. An orchestra didn't quite do justice to Mozart ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Sound Play

    Video Games and the Musical Imagination

    by William Cheng ...
    Series series Oxford Music / Media
    Video games open portals to fantastical worlds where imaginative play and enchantment prevail. These virtual settings afford us considerable freedom to act out with relative impunity. Or do they? Sound Play explores the aesthetic, ethical, and sociopolitical stakes of people's creative engagements with gaming's audio phenomena-from sonorous violence to synthesized operas, from democratic music ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Sound Pedagogy

    Radical Care in Music

    by Colleen Renihan, John Spilker, Trudi Wright, Molly M Breckling, William Everett, Kate Galloway, Sara Haefeli0, Eric Hung1, Stephanie Jensen-Moulton2, Mark Katz3, Nathan A Langfitt4, Matteo Magarotto5, Mary Natvig6, Frederick A Peterbark7, Laura Moore Pruett8, Amanda Christina Soto9, Reba A Wissner0 ...
    Series series Music in American Life
    Music education today requires an approach rooted in care and kindness that coexists alongside the dismantling of systems that fail to serve our communities in higher education. But, as the essayists in Sound Pedagogy show, the structural aspects of music study in higher education present obstacles to caring and kindness like the entrenched master-student model, a neoliberal individualist and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Queering the Field

    Sounding Out Ethnomusicology

    Edited by Gregory Barz, William Cheng ...
    Drawing on ethnographic research and often deeply personal experiences with musical cultures, Queering the Field: Sounding out Ethnomusicology unpacks a history of sentiment that veils the treatment of queer music and identity within the field of ethnomusicology. The thematic structure of the volume reflects a deliberate cartography of queer spaces in the discipline-spaces that are strongly ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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    Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy

    by Maggie Berg, Barbara K. Seeber ...
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  • Dance Pedagogy for a Diverse World

    Culturally Relevant Teaching in Theory, Research and Practice

    by Nyama McCarthy-Brown ...
    Issues of race, class, gender and religion permeate the study of contemporary dance, resulting in cultural clashes in classrooms and studios. The first of its kind, this book provides dance educators with tools to refocus teaching methods to celebrate the pluralism of the United States. The contributors discuss how to diversify ballet technique classes and dance history courses in higher education ... Read more

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  • Dance and Ethics

    Moving Towards a More Humane Dance Culture

    by Naomi M. Jackson ...
    Dance and Ethics: Moving Towards a More Humane Culture is an introductory study of ethical issues as applied to the history and field of Western theatrical dance. It is the first sustained work of its kind, inspired by the belief that there are serious issues to be illuminated by examining dance in relation to ethics and to the changing values in the dance world itself, especially as faced by ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Globalizing Music Education

    A Framework

    by Alexandra Kertz-Welzel ...
    Series series Counterpoints: Music and Education
    How do globalization and internationalization impact music education around the world? By acknowledging different cultural values and priorities, Alexandra Kertz-Welzel's vision challenges the current state of international music education and higher education, which has been dominated by English-language scholarship. Her framework utilizes an interdisciplinary approach and emphasizes the need for ... Read more

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  • Dance Education

    A Redefinition

    by Dr Susan R. Koff ...
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  • Many Books, Many Stories

    Using Children’s and Young Adult Literature to Open Classroom Conversations

    Edited by Kathleen Olmstead, Serena Troiani ...
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  • 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

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