1st Edition
Community-Engaged Performance Tours A Guide for Music Ensemble Directors and Educators
By James Spinazzola
Copyright 2024
122 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
122 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
122 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Community-Engaged Performance Tours addresses the role of performance touring as a form of classroom and community engagement. Performance tours have long been a part of the collegiate and high school music ensemble experience, bringing student bands, choirs, and orchestras into connection with a wide variety of audiences, venues, and cultural contexts. This book presents a new approach to the... Read more
Introduction
1. A Concise History of Community Engagement in Higher Education
2. Traditional and Community-Engaged Performance Tours: From Tourism to Partnership
3. Foundations of a Community-Engaged Performance Tour: Planning and Partnership
4. The Pedagogy of Community-Engaged Performance Tours
5. Case Study: The Cornell Wind Symphony in Haiti and the Dominican Republic
6. The Logistics of Leading a Community-Engaged Performance Tour
Epilogue
Index
Biography
James Spinazzola is Barbara & Richard T. Silver Associate Professor of Music and Director of Winds at Cornell University.
