How popular musicians learn : a way ahead for music education / Lucy Green.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Green, Lucy, author.

Series:

Ashgate popular and folk music series.

Ashgate popular and folk music series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Instruction and study--England.

Music.

Popular music--Instruction and study--England.

Popular music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (251 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

Popular musicians acquire some or all of their skills and knowledge informally, outside school or university, and with little help from trained instrumental teachers. How do they go about this process? Despite the fact that popular music has recently entered formal music education, we have as yet a limited understanding of the learning practices adopted by its musicians. Nor do we know why so many popular musicians in the past turned away from music education, or how young popular musicians today are responding to it.Drawing on a series of interviews with musicians aged between fifteen and fif

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 What is it to be musically educated?; 2 Skills, knowledge and self-conceptions of popular musicians: the beginnings and the ends; 3 Learning to play popular music: acquiring skills and knowledge; 4 Attitudes and values in learning to play popular music; 5 Popular musicians in traditional music education; 6 Popular musicians in the new music education; 7 The formal and the informal: mutual reciprocity or a contradiction in terms?; Appendix: Summary profiles of the musicians; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

First published 2002 by Ashgate Publishing.

Includes bibligraphical references and index.

ISBN:

9780754681632 (eBook)

OCLC:

437113593