1st Edition
Music Education in Africa Concept, Process, and Practice
This book explores the music of Africa and its experience in modern education, offering music education analyses from African perspectives. The collection assembles insights from around Africa to bring African and non-African scholars into the world of music, education, policy, and assessment as played out across the continent. The music of Africa presents multiple avenues for the understanding of the reality of life from a cultural perspective. The teaching and learning of this music closely follows its practice, the latter involving a combination of artistic expressions. With international interest in world music, there is need to engage with concepts and processes of this music. The volume offers new research from culture bearers, scholars, and educators rooted in practices that provide deeper perceptions of the cultural expression of music. With sections focussing on Concepts in Musical Arts, Musical Arts Processes, and Music Education Practice, it captures and documents the concept of musical arts from an African experiential perspective. Articulating the processes of musical arts and their implications for teaching and learning in both African and international learning contexts, it presents a balanced view of music as a phenomenon and generates material for discussion. A valuable resource for those seeking insight into aspects of music practice in Africa, this book will appeal to scholars of Music Education, Ethnomusicology, Community Music, African Studies, and African Music.
Contents
Chapter 1
Music and Musicking: Continental Africa’s junctures in learning, teaching and research
By Jean N. Kidula
Chapter 2
‘Tear open and enjoy eating’: Juxtaposing and merging knowledge systems
By Anri Herbst, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Chapter 3
Sharing Concerns: A direction for African music education
Eric Debrah Otchere
Chapter 4
Pertinent Concepts for Advancing Indigenous Epistemological Integrity for African Musical Arts Education
Meki Nzewi
Chapter 5
Africanising Assessment: Developing generic cross-cultural assessment standards
Renee Human, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Chapter 6
Music Education in Egypt: Identity& Culture
By Nahla Mattar
Chapter 7
The School of Arts and the Music Scene of Senegal
Ibrahima WANE
Chapter 8 "In Class out of Place": The substance of secondary school music curriculum
Ernest Patrick Monte and Joyce M. Mochere
Chapter 9
Interrogating Cultural Relevance in the Musicianship Class
by Cleniece Owino and Emily Akuno
Chapter 10
Incorporating Indigenous Songs into the Elementary School system in Nigeria
By Olorunsogo, Ifeoluwa A. O.
Chapter 11
Narrative perspectives of non-melodic praxis as a pedagogical approach for music education of children and youth
By Julius Kyakuwa
Chapter 12
Africanising the Music Classroom through Choral and Instrumental Ensembles: The Kenya Music Festival and Nairobi Orchestra as Music Education Resources
Elizabeth Achieng’ Andang’o,
Chapter 13
Karimojong Indigenous Education and the effect of the Non-Formal Education Curriculum and Contemporary Forces of Change
Peter Ekadu-Ereu,
Chapter 14
Pedagogical Attributes of the Lozi Silimba from Zambia
Jessee Wanderi
Chapter 15
Systematic Instruction for Musical Arts Education: Towards skill development and cultural growth
Atinuke Adenike Idamoyibo and Emily Achieng’ Akuno
Chapter 16
Composing Art Music from Indigenous African Musical Paradigms
Christian Onyeji
Chapter 17
Examining African Children's Musical Arts Experiences as Learning Resources for children
Fred O. Atoh, Virginia N. Onyara, and Perminus Matiure,
Chapter 18
Children's Songs: Education beyond the playground.
Emily Achieng’ Akuno
Chapter 19
Africanising the Music Classroom through Technology: The case of Uganda
by Benon Kigozi
Biography
Emily Achieng’ Akuno is a professor of music at the Technical University of Kenya, and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic Affairs) at the Co- operative University of Kenya.
