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A Way of Music Education

Classic Chinese Wisdoms

C Victor Fung author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

Published:1st Feb '18

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Moving back through Dewey, Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Rousseau, the lineage of Western music education finds its origins in Plato and Pythagoras. Yet theories not rooted in the ancient Greek tradition are all but absent. A Way of Music Education provides a much-needed intervention, integrating ancient Chinese thought into the canon of music education in a structured, systematized, and philosophical way. The book's three central sources - the Yijing (The Book of Changes), Confucianism, and Daoism - inform author C. Victor Fung's argument: that the human being exists as an entity at the center of an organismic world in which all things and events, including music and music education, are connected. Fung ultimately proposes a new educational philosophy based on three key ideas in Chinese thought: change, balance, and liberation. A unique work, A Way of Music Education offers a universal approach engrained in a specific and ancient cultural tradition.

this book is important ... an introductory reading that helps western music education readers understand the music education activities from multiple perspectives of Chinese philosophies. * Hang Su, International Society for Music Education *

ISBN: 9780190234478

Dimensions: 152mm x 231mm x 15mm

Weight: 340g

240 pages