Living in Worlds of Music A View of Education and Values /

• Main Author: Mans, Minette (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
• Series: Landscapes: the Arts, Aesthetics, and Education, 8
• Subjects: Education.; Culture > Study and teaching.; Music.; Cultural heritage.; Art education.; Educational sociology.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Education, general.; Arts Education.; Cultural Heritage.; Sociology of Education.; Regional and Cultural Studies.

Informed by her in-depth ethnomusical knowledge, the result of detailed fieldwork, Mans’s book is about musical worlds and how we as people inhabit them. The book asserts that an understanding of our musical worlds can be a transformative educational tool that could have a significant role to play i...

Table of Contents:

• Why a Musical World?
• Thinking Music: Processes of Musical Cognition
• A Functioning Musical World
• Inhabiting a Musical World
• Educating in Living Musical Worlds
• Concluding Thoughts – Aluta Continua.