- Diverse Music Education Insights
- Music Therapy and Health
- Art Education and Development
- Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Music History and Culture
Lebanon Valley College
2025
Boston University
2021
The purpose of this study was to determine which methods written notation are most commonly used within popular music education and modern band settings in K–12 schools how students typically learn the they perform. In many U.S. public schools, emphasis is put on reading skills that decode translate notes a five-line, four-space staff (5L4S). Through mixed-methods utilizing direct interviews an anonymous online questionnaire, I uncovered findings authentic learning while educators engaged...
Public education in the United States is often woefully under-funded, especially arts, despite a federal mandate to provide music for all. Where programs exist US schools, they tend focus on teacher-directed large ensembles that afford students little agency or creative opportunity, playing alienates majority of young people. Faced with volume evidence pointing benefits including well-rounded education, philanthropy-funded nonprofit companies such as Little Kids Rock step fill vacuum state...
Review of: Popular Music Pedagogies: A Practical Guide for Teachers , Matthew Clauhs, Bryan Powell and Ann C. Clements (2020) Abingdon: Routledge, 216 pp., ISBN 978-0-36726-658-5, p/bk, $49.95