Sound pedagogy : radical care in music / edited by Colleen Renihan, John Spilker, and Trudi Wright ; foreword by William Cheng.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Renihan, Colleen, editor.

Series:

Music in American life.

Music in American Life Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Instruction and study--Social aspects.

Music.

Music--Instruction and study--Psychological aspects.

Music--Instruction and study--Moral and ethical aspects.

Music--Instruction and study--Political aspects.

Music--Instruction and study--Philosophy.

Education, Higher--Philosophy.

Education, Higher.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (365 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Urbana, IL : University of Illinois Press, [2024]

Summary:

"Music education today requires an approach rooted in care and kindness that coexists alongside the dismantling of systems that fail to serve students, teachers, or their goals in music. The editors of this volume curate essays that use a broad definition of care pedagogy, one informed by interdisciplinary scholarship and aimed at providing practical strategies for bringing transformative learning and engaged pedagogies to music classrooms. The contributors draw from personal experience to address issues including radical kindness through universal design; listening to non-human musicality; public musicology as a forum for social justice discourse; and radical approaches to teaching about race through music. But, as the essayists show, the structural aspects of music study in higher education present obstacles to caring and kindness like the entrenched master-student model, the valorization of physical pain and stress, and classical music's white patriarchal history"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Caring, Now

Care, Defined

Care as Social Justice: Call to Action

A Complicated Care: The Tensions We Hold

Roots of Care and Critical Pedagogy

Who Cares?

Notes

Part I. The Heart of Curricular Interventions

Chapter 1. Reenchanting Music History

Chapter 2. Teaching Approaches to Race through Music

Chapter 3. Empathy in Opera

Defining Empathy

Empathy in Opera: Broad Themes

Pedagogical Applications in an Undergraduate Opera Course

Points of Interest: Opera and Empathy

Music and Affective Matching

The Structure of the Aria

Performers and Empathy

The Operatic Other

Live vs. Mediated Empathy

Possibilities for Opera as Empathy

Chapter 4. Integrating Well-being and Intersectional Equity across a Revised Music History and Culture Curriculum

Risk, Privilege, Precarity

Scaffolding and Integrating Well-being Scholarship

A Glimpse Inside the Classroom

Understanding Resistance

Continual Work

Conclusion

Chapter 5. Care, Carefully

Chapter 6. Kindness as Universal Design

Prelude: Carrie

Danger: Kind Classroom

"Feeling kind is not enough": Defining Kindness and Its Paradoxes

Kindness as a Principle of Universal Design?

Kindness, Individualism, and the Music Classroom

The Urgency of Kindness Pedagogy

Part II. Unmeasured Pedagogical Horizons

Chapter 7. Connecting Students and Artistic Communities

Bibliography

Chapter 8. Toward Socially Responsible Music History Pedagogy

Letting the Butterfly Go

Moving Past Information Poverty

An Example Module: Music and Incarceration

Notes.

Chapter 9. Public Musicology as Care, or How Should We Respond When the Duke of Mantua Tells Us That All Women Are Fickle?

Gender

Othering

Chapter 10. Listening with Care to Nonhuman Musicality and Material Culture

Musical Artifacts as Assemblages of Nonhuman Matter

Silenced Specimens and Field Guides That Sound

Epilogue: Materiality, the Stuff of Sound, and Care

Part III. Self-Care, the Root of Teaching

Chapter 11 Curriculum Changing Culture

Historical Context

Stressors Connected to Music School

Starting Age

Volume and Rigidity of Coursework

One-to-One Relationships

Mental Health Issues Connected to Physical Pain

Isolation

Supporting All of Our Students

Curricular Changes to Encourage Mental Health Promotion

Chapter 12. Teaching the First-Generation College Student in the Music History Classroom

First-Generation College Students: An Overview

Strategies for First-Generation Students in the Music History Classroom

Recommendations

Chapter 13. New Waters in Music

Out of the Frontera (Borderland)

Finding a Home

Processing Historical Trauma

Supporting Faculty

Supporting Students

Imposter Syndrome

Colliding Worlds: Hispanic Musicking under the Classical Western Paradigm

Reflecting on this Intervention

Schools of Music as Microcosms

Chapter 14. Lessons in Student- and Self-Care from Trauma

Brain and Bones: Physical and Emotional Trauma

Care in the Classroom and Takeaways: Applying the Lessons of Trauma

"A therapeutic method for my mental health": Student Responses to Care Pedagogy

Final Reflection

Chapter 15. Mental Health and the Pedagogy of Self-Disclosure

The Campus Crisis: Demographics, Depression, Anxiety, and Stress.

Music Students and the Stress-Burnout- and Depression/Anxiety Continuum

How to Help?

The Pedagogy of Self-Disclosure

Resources

Chapter 16. Modeling Cura Personalis

Epilogue

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-252-05525-X