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Book SynopsisCulturally relevant music can drive reform in urban education. Teaching Music in the Urban Classroom, Volume 1: A Guide to Survival, Success, and Reform opens a national-level conversation aimed at making that goal a reality. This first of two volumes addresses cultural responsivity, teaching strategies, and alternative teaching models. Contributors, who include classroom music teachers, inner city arts administrators, well-known academics, and policy-makers from across the United States and Canada, offer a full range of political, philosophical, and practical approaches to reaching kids in urban schools. These authors, whose voices are distinct and yet united, guide music educators at every level, motivating them to challenge tired assumptions, reconsider the issues, and transform their classrooms and their students. See also: Teaching Music in the Urban Classroom, Volume 2 ORDER BOTH VOLUMES 1 & 2 NOW AND SAVE! 1-57886-545-X $65.00 paper set / 1-57886-544-1 $130.00 cloth set
Trade ReviewThis 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. * CHOICE *
Contributors discuss motivation, choral rehearsals, building an instrumental music program, string chorales, the impact of music education, challenges in teaching, English-language learners, using the music of all cultures, and white teachers working with students of color. * Reference and Research Book News *
Table of ContentsPart 1 Introduciton Chapter 2 Defining Ourselves as Other: Envisioning Transformative Possibilities Chapter 3 Cultural Clashes: The Complexity of Identifying Urban Culture Chapter 4 Building Confianza: Using Dialogue Journals with English Language Learners in Urban Schools Chapter 5 White Teacher, Students of Color: Culturally Responsive Pedagogy for Elementary General Music in Communities of Color Chapter 6 The Challenges of Urban Teaching: Young Urban Music Educators at Work Chapter 7 Teaching Music in Urban Landscapes: Three Perspectives Chapter 8 Motivating Urban Music Students Chapter 9 Differentiating Instruction in the Choral Rehearsal: Strategies for Choral Conductors in Urban Schools Chapter 10 Building an Instrumental Music Program in an Urban School Chapter 11 The String Chorale Concept Chapter 12 The Small, Big City in Music Education: The Impacts of Instrumental Music Education for Urban Students Chapter 13 A New Sound for Urban Schools: Rethinking How We Plan Chapter 14 Music of Every Culture Has Something in Common - and Can Teach Us about Ourselves: Using the Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method Chapter 15 Music Educators in the Urban School Reform Conversation
