Empowering song: music education from the margins
by De Quadros, André, Amrein, Emilie
fromRoutledge Focus
"Empowering Song: Music Education from the Margins weaves together subversive pedagogy and theories of resistance with community music education and choral music, inspiring professionals to revisit and reconsider their pedagogical practices and approaches. The authors' unique in…
Most histories of nineteenth-century music portray 'the people' merely as an audience, a passive spectator to the music performed around it. Yet, in this reappraisal of choral singing and public culture, Minor shows how a burgeoning German bourgeoisie sang of its own collective …
Ryan Minor tells the story of amateur, middle-class choral singing when it took on the characteristics we recognize today. Four case studies focused on individual compositions connect the ideals of participatory choral singing to the national culture of public festivals in 19th-…
