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Music, Leisure, Education - Historical and Philosophical Perspectives

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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. Taking as its starting point "the art of living" and the ethical question of how one should live, the book engages a wide range of scholarship to problematize the place of non-professional music-making in historical and contemporary (Western) conceptions of the good life and the common good.

Part I provides a general background on music education, school music, the work ethic, leisure studies, recreation, play, and conduct. Part II focuses on two significant currents of thought and activity during the Progressive Era in the United States, the settlement movement and the recreation movement. The examination demonstrates how societal concerns over conduct (the "threat of leisure") and differing views on the purpose of music learning and teaching led to a fracturing between those espousing generalist and specialist positions. The four chapters of Part III take readers through considerations of happiness (eudaimonia) and the good life, issues of work-life balance and the play spirit, leisure satisfaction in relation to consumerism, individualism, and the common good, and finally, parenting logics in relation to extracurriculars, music learning, and serious 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.

Additional text

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?

Product details

Authors Roger Mantie, Roger (Associate Professor of Music Educat Mantie
Publisher Oxford University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 28.02.2022
 
EAN 9780199381388
ISBN 978-0-19-938138-8
No. of pages 296
Series Print on demand
Subject Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs

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