A Cultural Psychology of Music Education

by Barrett, Margaret S.

• ISBN13: 9780199214389
• ISBN10: 0199214387
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-02-11
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Recent studies in music education have investigated the ways in which different groups construe music and music education, and the ways in which these constructions are culturally bound. A Cultural Psychology of Music Education explores the ways in which the discipline of cultural psychology can contribute to our understanding of how music development occurs in a range of cultural settings, and the subsequent implications of such understanding for the theory and practice of music education. The book opens with an overview of the theoretical underpinnings of a cultural psychology of music education. Ten eminent music education scholars and researchers provide chapters that illustrate the application of this approach to key issues in music education; its theory and practice. These chapters provide opportunities to look more deeply into the practices of music education in order to understand the role culture plays in shaping children's musical learning and thinking, the learning and teaching of music teachers, the formal and informal institutions and structures within and through which learning and teaching occur, and, the intersection of these processes and structures in the development of musical thought and practice. As the first major publication to explore a cultural psychology of music, this volume signals new directions for the study of music educational theory and practice, and the continuing transformation of the discipline. It draws together a number of music education researchers working within a cultural psychology framework establishing a basic reference in this developing field. A fascinating subject, this volume will be of interest to music educators, students and researchers of music education, and music psychologists.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. xi
Towards a cultural psychology of music education	p. 1
Children's learning of music and dance in Bali: an ethnomusicological view of the cultural psychology of music education	p. 17
Meaning-making through musical play: cultural psychology of the playground	p. 41
Musical enculturation: sociocultural influences and meanings of children's experiences in and through music	p. 61
When the music is theirs: scaffolding young songwriters	p. 83
Making music or playing instruments: secondary students' use of cultural tools in aural-and notation-based instrumental learning and teaching	p. 115
A century of music listening in schools: toward practices resonating with cultural psychology?	p. 143
Learning in and through music performance: understanding cultural diversity via inquiry and dialogue	p. 179
Culture, musicality, and musical expertise	p. 201
Culture and gender in a cathedral music context: an activity theory exploration	p. 225
On being and becoming a cathedral chorister: a cultural psychology account of the acquisition of early musical expertise	p. 259
Index	p. 289
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