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Music, Meaning and Transformation: meaningful music making for life, examines the musical experiences that students find meaningful and the ways in which teachers, parents and community music leaders might provide access to meaningful music education. This is particularly relevant today because school music often fails to provide sustainable access to music making for life, health and wellbeing beyond school. This book seeks to reframe the focus of music education within a pragmatist philosophy and provide a framework that is culturally and chronologically inclusive. The approach involves an intensely personal music teachers'journey that privilege the voices of students and teachers of a music making community and sets these against rigorous long termed qualitative methodologies.Music education is shifting focus away from music as an object and process towards the meaning experienced by the student personally, socially and culturally. This is an important and fundamental issue for the development of philosophy for pre-service and practicing music teachers and community music project leaders. The focus now needs to be upon the 98% who could have music as a significant expressive for

Author

Steve Dillon, Author

Publisher

Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781847182135

Subjects

Music, Philosophy, Arts

Updated

2026-03-24