1st Edition

Listening in Action Teaching Music in the Digital Age

By Rebecca Rinsema Copyright 2017
188 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

In an age when students come to class with more varied music listening preferences and experiences than ever before, music educators can find themselves at a loss for how to connect with their students. Listening in Action provides the beginnings of a solution to this problem by characterizing students’ contemporary music listening experiences as they are mediated by digital technologies.... Read more

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Series Editors' Preface

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

 

Introduction

 

Part I: Philosophy

Chapter 1 Listening and Musical Meaning

Chapter 2 Listening and Musical Understanding

 

Part II: Observation

Chapter 3 The Study: Description and Literature Review

Chapter 4 Embodying the Experience

Chapter 5 Organizing the Experience

Chapter 6 Navigating Real and Virtual Spaces

Chapter 7 Developing Musical Selves

 

Part III: Practice

Chapter 8 Listening, Creativity and the Music Classroom

Chapter 9 Multimedia, Hermeneutics and the Music Classroom

 

Appendices

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Rebecca Rinsema is Lecturer of Music in General Studies at Northern Arizona University, USA. She teaches courses on popular music and the analysis of music from the listener’s perspective. She is also a singer specializing in the performance of early music.