Music education today requires an approach rooted in care and kindness that coexists alongside the dismantling of systems that fail to serve our communities in higher education. But, as the essayists in
Sound Pedagogy show, the structural aspects of music study in higher education present obstacles to caring and kindness like the entrenched master-student model, a neoliberal individualist and competitive mindset, and classical musics white patriarchal roots. 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.
Contributors: Molly M. Breckling, William A. Everett, Kate Galloway, Sara Haefeli, Eric Hung, Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, Mark Katz, Nathan A. Langfitt, Matteo Magarotto, Mary Natvig, Frederick A. Peterbark, Laura Moore Pruett, Colleen Renihan, Amanda Christina Soto, John Spilker, Reba A. Wissner, and Trudi Wright
Recenzijas
"A direct call for action grounded in the day-to-day work we do as teachers. Inspired by recent work in musicology and related fields, this is the first collection that brings scholars, teachers, and administrators together to think collectively about student wellbeing and the need for instructors to center care in their pedagogy."--Loren Kajikawa, author of Sounding Race in Rap Songs
Foreword William Cheng
Introduction: Radical Care
Colleen Renihan, John Spilker, Trudi Wright
Part I. The Heart of Curricular Interventions
Chapter
1. Re-Enchanting Music History
Sara Haefeli
Chapter
2. Teaching Approaches to Race Through Music: A Timely Example from
the American South
Molly M. Breckling
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3. Empathy in Opera
Colleen Renihan
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4. Integrating Wellbeing and Intersectional Equity Across a Revised
Music History and Culture Curriculum
John Spilker
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5. Care, Carefully: Caring for the Whole Student from Recruitment
through Retention
Frederick A. Peterbark
Chapter
6. Kindness as Universal Design: Rethinking the College Music
Classroom from Within
Stephanie Jensen-Moulton
Part II. Unmeasured Pedagogical Horizons
Chapter
7. Connecting Students and Artistic Communities: Understanding
Agency, Fostering Empathy, and Expanding Representation in the Classroom
Mark Katz
Chapter
8. Towards Socially Responsible Music History Pedagogy: A Rant, Some
Theories and A Few Resources
Eric Hung
Chapter
9. Public Musicology as Care, or How Should We Respond When the Duke
of Mantua Tells Us That All Women Are Fickle?
William A. Everett and Matteo Magarotto
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10. Listening with Care to Nonhuman Musicality and Material Culture
Kate Galloway
Part III. Self-Care, the Root of Teaching
Chapter
11. Curriculum Changing Culture: Improving the Mental Health of
University Music Students
Nathan A. Langfitt
Chapter
12. Teaching the First-Generation College Student in the Music
History Classroom: A Student-to-Professor Perspective
Reba A. Wissner
Chapter
13. New Waters in Music: Recognizing and Processing Trauma While
Trying to Diversify a School of Musics Curriculum Offerings
Amanda Christina Soto
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14. Lessons in Student- and Self-Care from Trauma: A Personal
Narrative
Laura Moore Pruett
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15. Mental Health and the Pedagogy of Self-Disclosure
Mary Natvig
Chapter
16. Modeling Cura Personalis: Caring for Our Students and Ourselves
Trudi Wright
Epilogue: Care for Now
Colleen Renihan, John Spilker, Trudi Wright
Contributors
Index
Colleen Renihan is an associate professor and Queens National Scholar in Music Theatre and Opera at Queens University. She is and the author of The Operatic Archive: American Opera as History. John Spilker is an associate professor of music at Nebraska Wesleyan University. Trudi Wright is an associate professor of music and director of the music program at Regis University.
