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  • The Music Learning Profiles Project

    Let's Take This Outside

    Series series Routledge New Directions in Music Education Series
    The Music Learning Profiles Project: Let’s Take This Outside uses ethnographic techniques and modified case studies to profile musicians active in a wide range of musical contexts not typically found in traditional music education settings. The book illuminates diverse music learning practices in order to impact music education in classrooms. It goes on to describe the Music Learning Profiles ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Drum Kit

    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    The drum kit is ubiquitous in global popular music and culture, and modern kit drumming profoundly defined the sound of twentieth-century popular music. The Cambridge Companion to the Drum Kit highlights emerging scholarship on the drum kit, drummers and key debates related to the instrument and its players. Interdisciplinary in scope, this volume draws on research from across the humanities, ... Read more

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  • Alternative Approaches in Music Education

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    Explore the creative ways music educators across the country are approaching emerging practices in music teaching and learning. Outlined in twenty-five unique case studies, each program offers a new perspective on music teaching and learning, often falling outside the standard music education curriculum. Find innovative ideas and models of successful practice to incorporate into your teaching, ... Read more

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  • Banding Together

    How Communities Create Genres in Popular Music

    Why do some music styles gain mass popularity while others thrive in small niches? Banding Together explores this question and reveals the attributes that together explain the growth of twentieth-century American popular music. Drawing on a vast array of examples from sixty musical styles--ranging from rap and bluegrass to death metal and South Texas polka, and including several created outside ... Read more

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  • Uncharted

    Creativity and the Expert Drummer

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock

    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    This Companion maps the world of pop and rock, pinpointing the most significant moments in its history and presenting the key issues involved in understanding popular culture's most vital art form. Expert writers chart the changing patterns in the production and consumption of popular music, the emergence of a vast industry with a turnover of billions and the rise of global stars from Elvis to ... Read more

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  • Powerful Voices

    The Musical and Social World of Collegiate A Cappella

    Series series Tracking Pop
    Collegiate a cappella, part of a long tradition of unaccompanied singing, is known to date back on American college campuses to at least the colonial era. Considered in the context of college glee clubs, barbershop quartets, early-twentieth-century vocal pop groups, doo-wop groups, and contemporary a cappella manifestations in pop music, collegiate a cappella is an extension of a very old ... Read more

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  • Studying Popular Music Culture

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Singer-Songwriter

    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    Most often associated with modern artists such as Bob Dylan, Elton John, Don McLean, Neil Diamond, and Carole King, the singer-songwriter tradition in fact has a long and complex history dating back to the medieval troubadour and earlier. This Companion explains the historical contexts, musical analyses, and theoretical frameworks of the singer-songwriter tradition. Divided into five parts, the ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Music Making and Leisure

    Series series Oxford Handbooks
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