How Popular Musicians Learn: A Way Ahead for Music Education
How Popular Musicians Learn: A Way Ahead for Music Education
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流行音乐家如何学习:音乐教育的未来之路
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2003
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R. Woody
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R. Woody
This book was written by British music educator and researcher Lucy Green. Her two previous books ( 1 988, 1 997) show she has an interest in the sociological aspects of music and education. How Popular Musicians Learn demonstrates that she is quite skilled at communicating her ideas. Although the world of popular music has been examined by other scholars, primarily sociologists (e.g., Epstein, 1994) and musicologists (e.g., Moore, 2001), Green's work is especially welcome for its squarely educational perspective. This book should appeal to a wide readership (including aspiring popular musicians themselves), but it is highly recommended to music teachers of all specializations. The inside sleeve of this book reads, "Popular musicians acquire some or all of their skills and knowledge informally, outside school or university, and with little help from trained instrumental teachers." For many music educators, whose own musical development occurred mostly under the direction of formal instruction, it is a little threatening or at least self-denying to think that people can become accomplished musicians independent of professional teaching. Yet there is no doubt that this happens, and probably more frequently than those within academe realize. Formally trained music teachers might be moved to read this book in recognition of some of the desirable qualities of popular musicians. Among them, it is likely that fewer self-taught "garage musicians" pack away their guitars in permanent storage after their teen years, like so many high school band members do upon graduation. Discussion of this important issue music as a participatory activity appears throughout the book.