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How Popular Musicians Learn A Way Ahead for Music Education

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ISBN-10: 0754632261

ISBN-13: 9780754632269

Edition: 2002

Authors: Lucy Green

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Focusing on the popular musical forms of the 20th and 21st centuries, this series covers the world's popular music from Acid Jazz to Zydeco, whether high tech or low tech, commercial or non-commercial, contemporary or traditional.
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Book details

List price: $44.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 6/9/2017
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 250
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836

Lucy Green is Professor of Music Education at the Institute of Education, University of London.

Foreword
Acknowledgements
What is it to be musically educated?
Research methods
Concluding thoughts
Skills, knowledge and self-conceptions of popular musicians: the beginnings and the ends
The 'beginnings'
Professional musicianship: the 'ends'
Some self-conceptions of popular musicians
Learning to play popular music: acquiring skills and knowledge
The overriding learning practice: listening and copying
Peer-directed learning and group learning
Acquiring technique
Practice
Acquiring knowledge of technicalities
Summary
Attitudes and values in learning to play popular music
Discipline and osmosis
Enjoyment
Valuing musicianship
Valuing oneself
Attitudes to 'other' music
Summary
Popular musicians in traditional music education
Classical instrumental tuition
Traditional classroom music education
Summary
Popular musicians in the new music education
Popular music instrumental tuition
The new classroom music education
Popular music in further and higher education
The musicians' views of popular music in formal education
Summary
The formal and the informal: mutual reciprocity or a contradiction in terms?
The neglect of informal learning practices in formal music education
Informal learning practices, attitudes and values: their potential for the formal sphere
What can teachers do?
Summary profiles of the musicians
Bibliography
Index