Pitts, S.E. orcid.org/0000-0003-1430-5801 (2017) What is music education for? Understanding and fostering routes into lifelong musical engagement. Music Education Research, 19 (2). pp. 160-168. ISSN 1461-3808
Abstract
Music education has a long history of defending its place in the school curriculum, with practitioners and researchers alike arguing for the creative, social and cognitive benefits of music in young people's lives. Meanwhile, those who doubt the benefits of musical learning – or more likely give them very little thought – are themselves the product of their own music education, just as much as the many amateur musicians and music listeners, a smaller number of professional musicians, and indeed the music education workforce in schools, universities and beyond. There are challenging questions to be asked, therefore, about what lasting values and attitudes the majority of the population acquire during their formative musical years – and what responsibilities school music education holds for shaping those values across the population. This keynote paper from RIME 2015 draws on diverse empirical studies with infant schools, chamber music audiences and lapsed amateur musicians, using this evidence to reflect on how music educators could be more aware – and make others more aware – of their contribution to lifelong musical engagement, and of the risks, challenges and opportunities inherent in the shaping of musical lives.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Music Education Research. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Lifelong musical engagement; infant schools; audiences; participation; benefits of music education |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > Department of Music (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 19 Apr 2016 09:35 |
Last Modified: | 05 Oct 2017 08:50 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14613808.2016.1166196 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/14613808.2016.1166196 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:98029 |