Music Education in an Age of Virtuality and Post-Truth.

Author/creator Woodford, Paul, 1955-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoMilton : Routledge, 2018.
Description1 online resource (157 pages)
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Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Preface; 1. Why I Write; A surveillance culture in education; Why children require a music education; The last post; Notes; 2. It's the economy, stupid; An economic purpose for music education; Art for art's sake?; Education as a mechanism of social control; A democratic purpose for music education; Notes; 3. Whose democracy, and what kind of citizen?; Toward a just society; Three models of democratic citizenship; Freedom above all?; Protect the minority of the opulent against the majority; Notes.
Contents 4. Harperland and conservative disdain for music and the arts; The muzzling of experts and cultural elites; A Conservative country?; The taming of culture; An aestheticization of politics; A feigned musical amateurism; Lessons to be learned in the age of the new authoritarianism; Notes; 5. The defeat of the schools; Educational standardization as global epidemic; In defense of the liberal arts; A new and unholy alliance; Notes; 6. I Yam What I Yam; Music education as a forensics of design history; Scrap the Jap and You're a sap, Mr. Jap; Culture as a mechanism of control; Notes.
Contents 7On the End of History and the global decline of music education?Who in the world is Donald Trump?; The American education system is failing; Music education at a tipping point?; Notes; 8. OnThe Return of History: Toward a liberal music education; Music education in a time of rage; On developing students' voices; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Woodford, Paul G. Music Education in an Age of Virtuality and Post-Truth. Milton : Routledge, ©2018 9781138322820
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