Provides a new pedagogical approach to human musicality and music education
Reveals how our capacities to live musically and to cultivate a musical life are derived from the legacies of childhood
Offers autobiographical and observational data on perspectives of music in childhood
Includes a case study of an opera written for babies
In music education, can self-reflection on our pasts help inform better teaching? How can our actions help shape the future of music pedagogy? Before We Teach Music offers stories about childhood memories of music making that generate readers' own recollections and discovery. Drawing from student autobiographies, literature, and a case study of an opera written for babies, author Lori A. Custodero suggests there is much to be learned about our students before we teach them.
Contents
Foreword
1. Musical Beings
2. Prelude to a Method: Memories, Music, and Childhood
3. Forming Relationships: Music in Early Childhood
4. A Sense Of Musical Self: Engaging Dispositions and Claiming Identities
5. Musical Pathways: Disruption and Renewal in Musical Lives
6. Encounters with Children: Lessons on Mutuality and Possibility
7. The Musical Legacies of Childhoods and Children
Epilogue Childhoods in Flux: Considering Consequences of a Global Pandemic