Teaching Music in the Urban Classroom: A Guide to Survival, Success, and Reform

Carol Frierson-Campbell is assistant professor of music at William Paterson University, Wayne, New Jersey, where she teaches courses in music education and graduate research and coordinates the Arts in Urban Schools outreach project.

This volume gathers the writing of professors, seasoned urban teachers, researchers, young teachers, and graduate students, and these diverse voices, though distinct, are united in their call for urban school reform and music curriculum reform. Keeping the focus on offering music experience to needy students, the editor presents the material under four large headings: cultural responsibility, music teacher stories, teaching strategies, and alternative teaching models. This carefully constructed volume is unique... Recommended.

• Part 1 IntroducitonChapter 2 Defining Ourselves as Other: Envisioning Transformative PossibilitiesChapter 3 Cultural Clashes: The Complexity of Identifying Urban CultureChapter 4 Building Confianza: Using Dialogue Journals with English Language Learners in Urban SchoolsChapter 5 White Teacher, Students of Color: Culturally Responsive Pedagogy for Elementary General Music in Communities of ColorChapter 6 The Challenges of Urban Teaching: Young Urban Music Educators at WorkChapter 7 Teaching Music in Urban Landscapes: Three PerspectivesChapter 8 Motivating Urban Music StudentsChapter 9 Differentiating Instruction in the Choral Rehearsal: Strategies for Choral Conductors in Urban SchoolsChapter 10 Building an Instrumental Music Program in an Urban SchoolChapter 11 The String Chorale ConceptChapter 12 The Small, Big City in Music Education: The Impacts of Instrumental Music Education for Urban StudentsChapter 13 A New Sound for Urban Schools: Rethinking How We PlanChapter 14 Music of Every Culture Has Something in Common - and Can Teach Us about Ourselves: Using the Aesthetic Realism Teaching MethodChapter 15 Music Educators in the Urban School Reform Conversation