1st Edition
A Brief Introduction to A Philosophy of Music and Music Education as Social Praxis
Music and Music Education as Social Praxis is a brief introduction to a praxial theory of music education, defined by author. It is grounded in an interdisciplinary approach, for undergraduate and graduate students in music education. Drawing upon scholarship from a range of disciplines, including philosophy and sociology, the book emphasizes and highlights thinking of music as an active social practice and offers an alternative to existing approaches to music education. This text advocates for an alternative approach to teaching music, rooted in the social practice of music, and will supplement Foundations or Methods courses in the Music Education curriculum.
CHAPTER ONE
Comparing down-to-earth music praxis with aesthetic speculations
CHAPTER TWO
Obscurum per obscurius
CHAPTER THREE
Predictable Problems of Aesthetic Theory as a basis for Music Education
CHAPTER FOUR
Practice theory and praxis
CHAPTER FIVE
Music education as and for praxis*
CHAPTER SIX
Praxis in music and music education
CHAPTER SEVEN
Action Learning and Breaking 100 in Music
Biography
Thomas A. Regelski
