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    Before We Teach Music by Custodero, Lori A.;

    The Resonant Legacies of Childhoods and Children

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    Product details:

    • Publisher OUP USA
    • Date of Publication 19 June 2024

    • ISBN 9780197557884
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages184 pages
    • Size 226x160x20 mm
    • Weight 272 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 1 line drawing, 1 photograph
    • 572

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    Short description:

    In music education, can self-reflection on our pasts help inform better teaching? How can our actions help shape the future of music pedagogy? Before We Teach Music offers stories about childhood memories of music making that generate readers' own recollections and discovery. Drawing from student autobiographies, literature, and a case study of an opera written for babies, author Lori A. Custodero suggests there is much to be learned about our students before we teach them.

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    Long description:

    The field of music education research is often concerned with studies and measurements that highlight the deficits rather than inquire about the developmental and dispositional strengths exhibited in children's musical behaviors. Before We Teach Music puts forth an alternative view, examining childhood as a site where enculturation mixes with individual experience to create foundational ways of being musical. Through interdisciplinary scholarship and multiple sources of data, author Lori A. Custodero reveals how our capacities to live musically and to cultivate a musical life are derived from the legacies of childhood.

    The book features excerpted musical autobiographies from over 200 music education graduate students that reveal the full spectrum of music's effect on developmental stages. For example, early childhood memories evoke strong associations with family members; dispositional practices and expressions of musical identities surface in middle childhood; and strong memories of disruption, renewal, and resistance tend to occur in later adolescence and early adulthood. These stories generate the reader's own recollections and provoke a process of self-reflection on how the past informs the present, and how our current actions help shape future experiences. Moreover, Before We Teach Music addresses what parents, teachers, performers, and composers learn from their encounters with children, raising important questions about the nature of musicality, the roles of music in identity, and the complexity of human musical trajectories.

    Highly recommended.

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    Table of Contents:

    Foreword
    1. Musical Beings
    2. "Prelude to a Method": Memories, Music, and Childhood
    3. Forming Relationships: Music in Early Childhood
    4. A Sense Of Musical Self: Engaging Dispositions and Claiming Identities
    5. Musical Pathways: Disruption and Renewal in Musical Lives
    6. Encounters with Children: Lessons on Mutuality and Possibility
    7. The Musical Legacies of Childhoods and Children
    Epilogue Childhoods in Flux: Considering Consequences of a Global Pandemic
    References
    Index

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