Music Matters: A Philosophy of Music Education

by David J. Elliott and Marissa Silverman

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Why is music significant in life and education? What shall we teach? How? To whom? Where and when? The praxial philosophy espoused in Music Matters: A Philosophy of Music Education offers an integrated sociocultural, artistic, participatory, and ethics-based concept of the natures and values of musics, education, musicing and listening, community music, musical understanding, musical emotions, creativity, and more. Embodied-enactive concepts of action,
perception, and personhood weave through the book's proposals. Practical principles for curriculum and instruction emerge from the authors' praxial themes.
  • ISBN10 0195334043
  • ISBN13 9780195334043
  • Publish Date 23 June 2014
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
  • Edition 2nd edition
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 568
  • Language English