Table of Contents

Part I. Foundational Matters

Chapter 1. Introduction 

  1. Some Serious Matters
  2. Preliminary observations
  3. Aims
  4. Premises
  5. Three Key Concepts: very Brief introductions
  6. Reading this Book
  7. Special Features
  8. End of the Beginning

    Questions for Discussion and Review
    Supplementary Readings

Chapter 2. Philosophy and Music Education

  1. Philosophy: A Brief Introduction
  2. The Philosophy of Music Education: A Very Brief Introduction
  3. Philosophy and Advocacy: What’s the Difference?
  4. Praxis, Praxial, and Related Concepts
  5. Conclusion

    Questions for Discussion and Review
    Supplementary Readings

Chapter 3. Music

  1. First Thoughts
  2. Limitations
  3. Plan of the Chapter
  4. Stage One: First Steps to a Concept of Music
  5. Stage Two: Basic Conclusions and Working Concepts
  6. Music: Two Broad Categories
  7. On the Origins and Evolution of Musics
  8. Stage Three
  9. Stage Four: Music as a Social Praxis
  10. Conclusion

    Questions for Discussion and Review
    Supplementary Readings

Chapter 4. Education

  1. Plan of the Chapter
  2. Limitations
  3. Stage One: Why think About Education?
  4. Stage Two: First steps to a Concept of Education
  5. Stage Three: Historical Perspectives
  6. Stage Four: Education as a Social Praxis
  7. Conclusion

    Questions for Discussion and Review
    Supplementary Readings

Chapter 5. Personhood

  1. Aims and Limitations
  2. Plan of the Chapter
  3. Basic Concepts and Terms
  4. A Holistic Concept of Persons and Personhood
  5. Matty and Maureen
  6. Consciousness
  7. Persons as Embodied and Enactive
  8. Brain
  9. The Brain: Perfect or Not?
  10. Is There a Musical Brain Center?
  11. Mind
  12. Body Mapping and Mirror Neurons
  13. Emotions and Feelings
  14. Implications for Music Education

    Questions for Discussion and Review
    Supplementary Readings

Part II. Musical Processes and Products in Contexts

Chapter 6. Musical Understanding

  1. Musical Understanding? Common Answers and Serious Omissions
  2. Aims and Limitations
  3. Plan of the Chapter
  4. A Praxial Concept of Musical Understanding: Embodied and Enactive
  5. Musical Understanding = Musicianship + Listenership
  6. Procedural/Action Musical Thinking and Knowing
  7. Verbal Musical Thinking and Knowing
  8. Experiential Musical Thinking and Knowing
  9. Situated Musical Thinking and Knowing
  10. Intuitive Musical Thinking and Knowing
  11. Appreciative Thinking and Knowing
  12. Ethical Musical Thinking and Knowing
  13. Supervisory Musical Thinking and Knowing
  14. Musical Understanding (Revisited)
  15. Implications for Music Education

    Questions for Discussion and Review
    Supplementary readings

Chapter 7. Musicing and Listening in Contexts

  1. Aims and Limitations
  2. Performing in Context
  3. Musical Interpretation
  4. Expanding on Musical Interpretation
  5. Composing in Context
  6. Improvising in Context
  7. Arranging in Context
  8. Music Listening in Context
  9. Further Examples of Cultural-Ideological Influences
  10. Love, Hate, and Other Musical Matters
  11. Music as Culture
  12. Ethics of Musicing and Listening in Context
  13. Artistic Citizenship in Context
  14. Implications for Music Education

    Questions for Discussion and Review
    Supplementary Readings

Chapter 8. Musical Products in Contexts

  1. Aims and Limitations
  2. Plan of the Chapter
  3. “Products?”
  4. Musical Form-Content Relationships
  5. Performance-Interpretation Dimensions
  6. Musical Design
  7. Praxis-Specific Style Characteristics
  8. Musical Expression
  9. Musical Representations
  10. Cultural-Ideological Dimensions
  11. Narrative Dimensions
  12. Autobiographical Dimensions
  13. Ethical Dimensions
  14. Implications for Music Education

    Questions for Discussion and Review
    Supplementary Readings

Chapter 9. Musical-Emotional Experiences

  1. First thoughts
  2. Aims and Limitations
  3. Plan of the Chapter
  4. Theories of Musical Experience
  5. Psychological Perspectives on Musical Experience
  6. A Concept of Musical-Emotional Experiences
  7. Implications for Music Education

    Questions for Discussion and Review
    Supplementary Readings

Chapter 10. Musical Creativity in Contexts

  1. Aims and Limitations
  2. Plan of the Chapter
  3. The Concept of Creativity
  4. Etymology and a Brief History of Creativity
  5. Originality and Significance
  6. Spontaneous Originality
  7. Creative Personality and Creative Process (Creative Thinking)
  8. Foundations of Creative Achievement
  9. Creativity and Imagination
  10. Creativity in Review
  11. Music “Good and Great”
  12. Implications for Music Education

    Questions for Discussion and Review
    Supplementary Readings

Chapter 11. Musical Values

  1. Aims and Limitations
  2. Plan of the Chapter
  3. Self and Identities
  4. Human Tendencies and Human Interests
  5. Consciousness Revisited
  6. Self-Growth
  7. Conditions of Self-Growth and Enjoyment
  8. Characteristics and Consequences of Self-Growth
  9. Self-Esteem and Personhood
  10. Safety, Self-Esteem, and Personhood
  11. Human Tendencies and Human Interests Revisited
  12. The Values of Music Making
  13. The Values of Music Listening
  14. Musical-Emotional Experiences and Social Capital
  15. Implications for Music Education

    Questions for Discussion and Review
    Supplementary Readings

Part III. Music and-as-in Education

Chapter 12. Music Education and Curriculum

  1. Aims and Limitations
  2. Plan of the Chapter
  3. The Concept of Curriculum
  4. Conventional Curriculum-Making
  5. Against Conventional Curriculum-Making
  6. Teachers and Curriculum-Making
  7. Alternative Concept of Curriculum-Making
  8. Curriculum Commonplaces
  9. Music Curriculum-Making
  10. Four stages of Curriculum-Making
  11. A Praxial Music Curriculum
  12. Stage One: A Praxial Orientation

    Questions for Discussion and Review
    Supplementary Readings

Chapter 13. Music Teaching and Learning

  1. Aims and Limitations
  2. Plan of the Chapter
  3. The Reflective Musical Practicum
  4. Preparing and Planning the Practicum
  5. Music Teaching and Learning
  6. A Praxial View of Curriculum Evaluation
  7. The Inclusive Music Curriculum

    Questions for Discussion and Review
    Supplementary Readings

Chapter 14. Music Education and Schooling

  1. Aims and Limitations
  2. Plan of the Chapter
  3. Education vs. Schooling
  4. The Functions of Schooling
  5. The Principles of Schooling
  6. The Corollaries of Schooling
  7. A Fundamental Problem
  8. Toward the Future: The Short-Run
  9. Toward the Future: The Long-Run
  10. Toward the Future: The Professional Music Educator and CM Facilitator

    Questions for Discussion and Review
    Supplementary Readings

Notes
Author Index
Subject Index