Complicating, Considering, and Connecting Music Education

Lauren K Richerme author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Indiana University Press

Published:5th May '20

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In Complicating, Considering, and Connecting Music Education, Lauren Kapalka Richerme proposes a poststructuralist-inspired philosophy of music education. Complicating current conceptions of self, other, and place, Richerme emphasizes the embodied, emotional, and social aspects of humanity. She also examines intersections between local and global music making. Next, Richerme explores the ethical implications of considering multiple viewpoints and imagining who music makers might become. Ultimately, she offers that music education is good for facilitating differing connections with one's self and multiple environments. Throughout the text, she also integrates the writings of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari with narrative philosophy and personal narratives. By highlighting the processes of complicating, considering, and connecting, Richerme challenges the standardization and career-centric rationales that ground contemporary music education policy and practice to better welcome diversity.

Richerme raises important questions about what is taught in music classes and reminds us that everyone has different lived experiences and has different values and that music educators need to adapt their teaching to their students' needs.

-- Jacob Mauldwin - Brigham Young University * Music Reference Services Quarter

ISBN: 9780253047373

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Weight: 467g

200 pages