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This book explores historical and philosophical connections between music, leisure, and education. Specifically, it considers how music learning, teaching, and participation can be reconceptualized in terms of leisure.
List of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- PART I
- Chapter 1: Music, Leisure, and Education
- Chapter 2: Leisure and Living
- PART II
- Chapter 3: Progressive Times: Settlements, Rational Recreation, and Music
- Chapter 4: Progressive Times: Play, Music, and Education
- Chapter 5: The Fears and Promises of the 1920s and 1930s
- PART III
- Chapter 6: How Should One Live?: Leisure and Happiness (Well-being)
- Chapter 7: How One Should Live: Leisure and Work
- Chapter 8: Leisure, Music, and the Common Good
- Chapter 9: Music Education as Leisure Education
- Notes
- References
- Index
About the author
Roger Mantie is Associate Professor, Department of Arts, Culture and Media at University of Toronto Scarborough, with a graduate appointment at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. He enjoyed previous appointments at Arizona State University and Boston University. Mantie is co-author of Education, Music, and the Social Lives of Undergraduates: Collegiate A Cappella and the Pursuit of Happiness, and co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Technology and Music Education (2017) and co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Music Making and Leisure (2016).
Summary
This book explores historical and philosophical connections between music, leisure, and education. Specifically, it considers how music learning, teaching, and participation can be reconceptualized in terms of leisure.
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In Music, Leisure, Education, Roger Mantie presents a compelling, refreshing, and meticulously researched antidote to neoliberal individualism and work as doxa. Mantie carefully and convincingly positions music and, especially, personally meaningful music-making, at the heart of this impressive treatise that addresses the perennial question: how should one live?
