Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review“A direct call for action grounded in the day-to-day work we do as teachers. Inspired by recent work in musicology and related fields, this is the first collection that brings scholars, teachers, and administrators together to think collectively about student wellbeing and the need for instructors to center care in their pedagogy.”--Loren Kajikawa, author of
Sounding Race in Rap SongsTable of ContentsForeword
William Cheng
Introduction: Radical Care
Colleen Renihan, John Spilker, Trudi Wright
Part I. The Heart of Curricular Interventions
Chapter 1. Re-Enchanting Music History
Sara Haefeli
Chapter 2. Teaching Approaches to Race Through Music: A Timely Example from the American South
Molly M. Breckling
Chapter 3. Empathy in Opera
Colleen Renihan
Chapter 4. Integrating Wellbeing and Intersectional Equity Across a Revised Music History and Culture Curriculum
John Spilker
Chapter 5. Care, Carefully: Caring for the Whole Student from Recruitment through Retention
Frederick A. Peterbark
Chapter 6. Kindness as Universal Design: Rethinking the College Music Classroom from Within
Stephanie Jensen-Moulton
Part II. Unmeasured Pedagogical Horizons
Chapter 7. Connecting Students and Artistic Communities: Understanding Agency, Fostering Empathy, and Expanding Representation in the Classroom
Mark Katz
Chapter 8. Towards Socially Responsible Music History Pedagogy: A Rant, Some Theories and A Few Resources
Eric Hung
Chapter 9. Public Musicology as Care, or How Should We Respond When the Duke of Mantua Tells Us That All Women Are Fickle?
William A. Everett and Matteo Magarotto
Chapter 10. Listening with Care to Nonhuman Musicality and Material Culture
Kate Galloway
Part III. Self-Care, the Root of Teaching
Chapter 11. Curriculum Changing Culture: Improving the Mental Health of University Music Students
Nathan A. Langfitt
Chapter 12. Teaching the First-Generation College Student in the Music History Classroom: A Student-to-Professor Perspective
Reba A. Wissner
Chapter 13. New Waters in Music: Recognizing and Processing Trauma While Trying to Diversify a School of Music’s Curriculum Offerings
Amanda Christina Soto
Chapter 14. Lessons in Student- and Self-Care from Trauma: A Personal Narrative
Laura Moore Pruett
Chapter 15. Mental Health and the Pedagogy of Self-Disclosure
Mary Natvig
Chapter 16. Modeling Cura Personalis: Caring for Our Students and Ourselves
Trudi Wright
Epilogue: Care for Now
Colleen Renihan, John Spilker, Trudi Wright
Contributors
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