Learning, Teaching, and Musical Identity

Lucy Green is Professor of Music Education at the University of London Institute of Education and author of Music, Informal Learning and the School: A New Classroom Pedagogy and How Popular Musicians Learn: A Way Ahead for Music Education.

"Reknowned editor and author Lucy Green (Univ. of London Institute of Education, UK) has collected 20 case studies about identity. Not only are the essays about a variety of musical cultural identities, they are written by researchers and educators from around the world. Green includes an ethnomusicologist, a soloist, a professor of social information, musicologists, and researchers of culture and identity. This is a work of theme and variations: each essay reviews investigative research, revealing musicians from a particular culture and the issues facing the newer generation. Most essays are current, but Green does include Roe-Min Kok's iconic 'Music for a Postcolonial Child: Theorizing Malaysian Memories' (from Musical Childhoods and the Cultures of Youth, ed. by Kok and Susan Boynton, 2006). Green allows readers to journey to an isolated culture, for example, Lapland, or to a cyberspace island, and contemplate their own musical identity as they work out their educational philosophy. Valuable for music educators and ethnomusicologists. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals. — Choice"—V. S. Xenakis, formerly, State University of New York College at Cortland, February"Green invites twenty authors from all corners of the globe to contribute evidence based research to this book . . . From these fascinating, highly readable accounts, Green pulls out some emerging issues which have important messages for music educators. 7/22/11"—Teaching Music"[T]his collection is a very worthy addition to the growing literature on global music education. It will be useful as both a scholarly and pedagogical resource, and will likely inspire much future work in this still nascent but vibrant field."—Popular Music"Green allows readers to journey to an isolated culture, for example, Lapland, or to a cyberspace island, and contemplate their own musical identity as they work out their educational philsoophy. . . . Highly recommended."—Choice"A truly exciting opportunity for music education . . . which draws from international sources and focuses on identity in music learning, an issue that has just begun to emerge in the literature of the field."—Jackie Wiggins, Oakland University

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Globalization and Localization of Learning, Teaching, and Musical Identity / Lucy Green1. The Permeable Classroom: Learning, Teaching, and Musical Identity in a Remote Australian Aboriginal Homelands School / Kathryn Marsh2. Popular Music Listening as "Non-Resistance": The Cultural Reproduction of Musical Identity in Japanese Families / Kyoko Koizumi3. From Homeland to Hong Kong: The Dual Musical Experience and Identity of Diasporic Filipino Women / Annie On Nei Mok4. Village, Province, and Nation: Aspects of Identity in Children's Learning of Music and Dance in Bali / Peter Dunbar-Hall5. Music for a Postcolonial Child: Theorizing Malaysian Memories / Roe-Min Kok6. Continuity and Change: The Guru-Shishya Relationship in Karnatic Classical Music Training / Sophie Grimmer7. "Music Is in Our Blood": Gujarati Muslim Musicians in the UK / John Baily8. Greek Popular Music and the Construction of Musical Identities by Greek-Cypriot School Children / Avra Pieridou-Skoutella9. Music-Learning and the Formation of Local Identity through the Philharmonic Society Wind Bands of Corfu / Zoe Dionyssiou10. Playing with Barbie: Exploring South African Township Children's Musical Games as Resources for Pedagogy / Susan Harrop-Allin11. Personal, Local, and National Identities in Ghanaian Performance Ensembles / Trevor Wiggins12. Music Festivals in the Lapland Region: Constructing Identities through Musical Events / Sidsel Karlsen13. Shaping a Music Teacher Identity in Sweden / Eva Georgii-Hemming14. Icelandic Men and Their Identity in Songs and in Singing / Robert Faulkner15. Discovering and Affirming Musical Identity through Extracurricular Music-Making in English Secondary Schools / Stephanie Pitts16. Scottish Traditional Music: Identity and the "Carrying Stream" / Charles Byrne17. Performance, Transmission, and Identity among Ireland's New Generation of Traditional Musicians / John O'Flynn18. Fostering a "Musical Say": Identity, Expression, and Decision Making in a US School Ensemble / Sharon G. Davis19. Diversity, Identity, and Learning Styles among Students in a Brazilian University / Heloisa Feichas20. SIMPhonic Island: Exploring Musical Identity and Learning in Virtual Space / Sheri E. JaffursList of ContributorsIndex