1st Edition

Meanings of Music Participation Scenarios from the United States

Edited By C. Victor Fung, Lisa J. Lehmberg Copyright 2023
266 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

266 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

266 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book uncovers the multifaceted nature of music participation through a collection of studies in a wide variety of musical contexts across the United States. The contributors combine personal voices and vivid narratives with scholarship to present many potential meanings of music participation, and lay out research-based implications for lifelong music education. Exploring music participation... Read more

Series Foreword

List of Contributors

Introduction

C. Victor Fung, Patrick K. Cooper and Lisa J. Lehmberg

1. Space for Music Participations

C. Victor Fung, Patrick K. Cooper, and Lisa J. Lehmberg

Part 1: Early Schooling Years

Interlude 1

2. Discovering the Meanings of Music to Preschoolers and Kindergarteners in Music Class

Lily Chen-Hafteck and Kate M. Bacich

3. Exploring Meaning to Increase Engagement in a Fifth Grade General Music Class

Kim Mieder

Interlude 2

Part 2: Adolescent Years

4. Meanings of a Secondary General Music Keyboard Class for Middle School Students

Elizabeth Bucura

5. High School Choral Experience and Its Transfer Into Emerging Adulthood

Morgan Jolley

Interlude 3

6. Foregoing High School Music Class to Discover Meaning in Music Making

James "SoSoon" Gantt

Interlude 4

Part 3: Adult Years

7. A Motivational Model of College Music Ensemble Participation for Non-Music Majors

Hyesoo Yoo

8. Divergent Paths: Connecting Musicking, Meaning, and Occupational Identity in Music Teachers

Patrick K. Cooper

9. Real Voices, Virtual Ensemble: The Meaning of Participation in Eric Whitacre’s Virtual Choirs

Stephen A. Paparo

Interlude 5

10. Transformative Learning through Music Participation in a Dance Group Founded by Chinese Immigrants

Danxu Ma

11. Participatory Music Making and Quality of Life of Older Adults

Lisa J. Lehmberg

Interlude 6

12. Meanings in the Making: Lifelong Implications

C. Victor Fung and Lisa J. Lehmberg

Appendices

Index

Biography

C. Victor Fung is Professor of Music Education and Director of the Center for Music Education Research at the University of South Florida. His books include Music for Life: Music Participation and Quality of Life of Senior Citizens (2016, co-authored with Lisa J. Lehmberg) and A Way of Music Education: Classic Chinese Wisdoms (2018). He was a Fulbright Researcher in Japan (2018) and served as a board member for the College Music Society, Florida Music Education Association, and International Society for Music Education.

Lisa J. Lehmberg is Professor of Music Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and has extensive experience as a PreK-12 school music specialist. She serves on the International Society for Music Education Publications Committee and the editorial board of the Journal of the Association for Technology in Music Instruction. Most recently, she co-authored (with C. Victor Fung) the book Music for Life: Music Participation and Quality of Life of Senior Citizens (2016).