Teaching Music in the Urban Classroom A Guide to Survival, Success, and Reform

by Frierson-Campbell, Carol; Hill, Willie L., Jr.; Abrahams, Daniel; Abrahams, Frank; Dolamore, Jeanne; McAnally, Elizabeth Ann; Mixon, Kevin

• ISBN13: 9781578864614
• ISBN10: 1578864615
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-06
• Publisher: R&L Education

Summary

The change needed in urban music education not only relates to the idea that music should be at the center of the curriculum; rather, it is that culturally relevant music should be a creative force at the center of reform in urban education. Teaching Music in the Urban Classroom A Guide to Survival, Success, and Reform is the start of a national-level conversation aimed at making that goal a reality. Its diverse authors range from classroom music teachers to inner city arts administrators to well-known academics and policy-makers from across the United States and Canada.

Table of Contents

Foreword	v
Willie L. Hill Jr.
Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction: Perspectives on Music in Urban Schools	ix
Carol Frierson-Campbell
Part I: Cultural Responsivity
Defining Ourselves as Other: Envisioning Transformative Possibilities	3	(12)
Cathy Benedict
Cultural Clashes: The Complexity of Identifying Urban Culture	15	(10)
Donna T. Emmanuel
Building Confianza: Using Dialogue Journals with English-Language Learners in Urban Schools	25	(10)
Regina Carlow
White Teacher, Students of Color: Culturally Responsive Pedagogy for Elementary General Music in Communities of Color	35	(22)
Kathy M. Robinson
Part II: Music Teacher Stories
The Challenges of Urban Teaching: Young Urban Music Educators at Work	57	(18)
Janice Smith
Teaching Music in Urban Landscapes: Three Perspectives	75	(24)
Carlos R. Abril
Part III: Teaching Strategies
Motivating Urban Music Students	99	(10)
Elizabeth Ann McAnally
Differentiating Instruction in the Choral Rehearsal: Strategies for Choral Conductors in Urban Schools	109	(8)
Daniel Abrahams
Building an Instrumental Music Program in an Urban School	117	(8)
Kevin Mixon
The String Chorale Concept	125	(14)
Jeanne Porcino Dolamore
The Small, Big City in Music Education: The Impacts of Instrumental Music Education for Urban Students	139	(14)
Karen Iken
Part IV: Alternative Teaching Models
A New Sound for Urban Schools: Rethinking How We Plan	153	(12)
Frank Abrahams
Patrick K. Schmidt
Music of Every Culture Has Something in Common and Can Teach Us about Ourselves: Using the Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method	165	(12)
Edward Green
Alan Shapiro
Music Educators in the Urban School Reform Conversation	177	(14)
Carol Frierson--Campbell
About the Contributors	191