How Popular Musicians Learn: A Way Ahead for Music Education

by Lucy Green

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Popular musicians acquire some or all of their skills and knowledge informally, outside school or university, and with little help from trained instrumental teachers. How do they go about this process? Despite the fact that popular music has recently entered formal music education, we have as yet a limited understanding of the learning practices adopted by its musicians. Nor do we know why so many popular musicians in the past turned away from music education, or how young popular musicians show more today are responding to it.Drawing on a series of interviews with musicians aged between fifteen and fif show less

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Lucy Green is Professor of Music Education at the London University Institute of Education and author of Music on Deaf Ears; Music, Gender; Education; How Popular Musicians Learn; Music, Informal Learning and the School: A New Classroom Pedagogy; and How Popular Musicians Learn: A Way Ahead for Music Education.

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Music, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Sociology
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781.64Arts & recreationMusicGeneral principles and musical formsTraditions of musicWestern popular music {equally instrumental and vocal}
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MT3 .E5 .G74MusicInstruction and studyInstruction and studyHistory
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