Indiana University Press Music Catalog 2015-16

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”Better than anyone else in the field, Allsup explores what a more open, less top-down and hierarchical approach to music teaching and learning (and musical meaning) might look like.” —Paul Woodford, author of Democracy and Music Education

Remixing the Classroom Toward an Open Philosophy of Music Education RANDALL EVERETT ALLSUP In a delightfully self-conscious philosophical “mash-up,” Randall Everett Allsup provides alternatives for the traditional master-apprentice teaching model that has characterized music education. By providing examples across the arts and humanities, Allsup promotes a vision of education that is open, changing, and adventurous at heart. He contends that the imperative of growth at the core of all teaching and learning relationships is made richer, though less certain, when it is fused with a student’s self-initiated quest. In this way, the formal study of music turns from an education in teacher-directed craft and moves into much larger and more complicated fields of exploration. Through vivid stories and evocative prose, Randall Everett Allsup advocates for an open, quest-driven teaching model that has repercussions for music education and the humanities more generally. RANDALL EVERETT ALLSUP is Associate Professor and Coordinator of Music Education at Teachers College Columbia University. He is past chair of the International Society for the Philosophy of Music Education (ISPME) and the Philosophy Special Research Interest Group (SRIG) of the Music Education Research Council. COUNTERPOINTS: MUSIC AND EDUCATION, ESTELLE R. JORGENSEN, EDITOR World July 2016 216 pages, 7 b&w illus., 6 x 9 cloth 978-0-253-02132-8 $70.00 paper 978-0-253-02142-7 $27.00 ebook 978-0-253-02153-3 $26.99

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