Music Education in Africa

Concept, Process, and Practice

Emily Achieng' Akuno, Emily Achieng’ Akuno

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9780367192853
• eBook ISBN: 9780429513695
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Theory & Practice

This book explores the music of Africa and its experience in modern education, offering music education analyses from African perspectives. The collection assembles insights from around Africa to bring African and non-African scholars into the world of music, education, policy, and assessment as played out across the continent. The music of Africa presents multiple avenues for the understanding of the reality of life from a cultural perspective. The teaching and learning of this music closely follows its practice, the latter involving a combination of artistic expressions. With international interest in world music, there is need to engage with concepts and processes of this music. The volume offers new research from culture bearers, scholars, and educators rooted in practices that provide deeper perceptions of the cultural expression of music. With sections focussing on Concepts in Musical Arts, Musical Arts Processes, and Music Education Practice, it captures and documents the concept of musical arts from an African experiential perspective. Articulating the processes of musical arts and their implications for teaching and learning in both African and international learning contexts, it presents a balanced view of music as a phenomenon and generates material for discussion. A valuable resource for those seeking insight into aspects of music practice in Africa, this book will appeal to scholars of Music Education, Ethnomusicology, Community Music, African Studies, and African Music.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Contributors
• Prelude: Introduction: interrogation of ‘Africanising the music classroom’
• 1 Music and musicking: continental Africa’s junctures in learning, teaching and research
• 2 ‘Tear open and enjoy eating’: juxtaposing and merging knowledge systems
• 3 Sharing concerns: a direction for African music education
• 4 Pertinent concepts for advancing indigenous epistemological integrity for African musical arts education
• 5 Africanising assessment: developing generic cross-cultural assessment standards
• 6 Music education in Egypt: identity and culture
• 7 The school of arts and the music scene of Senegal
• 8 “In class out of place”: the substance of secondary school music curriculum
• 9 Interrogating cultural relevance in the musicianship class
• 10 Incorporating indigenous songs into the elementary school system in Nigeria
• 11 Narrative perspectives of non-melodic praxis as a pedagogical approach for music education of children and youth
• 12 Africanising the music classroom through choral and instrumental ensembles: the Kenya Music festival and Nairobi Orchestra as music education resources
• 13 Karimojong indigenous education and the effect of the non-formal education curriculum and contemporary forces of change
• 14 Pedagogical attributes of the Lozi Silimba from Zambia
• 15 Systematic instruction for musical arts education: towards skill development and cultural growth
• 16 Composing art music from indigenous African musical paradigms
• 17 Examining African children’s musical arts experiences as learning resources for children
• 18 Children’s songs: education beyond the playground
• 19 Africanising the music classroom through technology: the case of Uganda
• Postlude: singing Africa
• Index