Sunday, May 19, 2013

Graduation and thinking about the future

I'm graduating on Wednesday. Monday is the Valedictory festival, and I'm very much looking forward to seeing all my friends and family at Radio City. RADIO CITY?!?! Hot damn!
That'll be a cool story to tell me kids.

I've been reading music education philosophy all semester, which has been a great experience, but I think I need to start a novel. It's been too long since I've read a good story.
(Note: I did read Farm City by Novella Carpenter, but that was just one. I need more!)

On that note:
Great reads to pick up at your local library (Bobst) if you're interested in music education philosophy.

Oxford Handbook on Music Education (Vol. I and II)
Oxford Handbook on Philosophy in Music Education
Music Matters - NYU's own David Elliott
Praxial Music Education - Edited by David Elliott.
-This one features some great essays by NYU visiting professor Wayne D. Bowman, as well as others by many great thinkers. My favorite was Patricia O'Toole's "Why Don't I Feel Included in These Musics, or Matters"

I would also highly recommend reading articles from the ACT Journal
http://act.maydaygroup.org/

And here are three books that I read last year in a course with Wayne D. Bowman that really changed my thinking for the broader and better:
Music As Social Life: The Politics of Participation - Thomas Turino
Musicking - Christopher Small
Heartland Excursions - Bruno Nettl

Another really fascinating (and brief!) article is Julie Koza's "Listening for Whiteness"

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