- 168 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This concise book critically examines the intersection of power, privilege, and classical music in higher education through an extensive study of the experiences, training, and background of teachers of musical theatre singing.
Mapping the divides within the voice pedagogy field, it shows how despite the growth of non-classical programmes, the teaching of vocal music in the United States continues to be structurally dominated by Western classical music. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and observations of practicing instructors, the author argues that current voice pedagogy training's classical-centred approach fails to prepare instructors to teach the range of vocal styles needed in the contemporary musical theatre profession. Combining a critical review of existing practices with proposals for change, this book sheds light on a key problem in voice pedagogy today.
Based on field research and drawing on both Shulman's signature pedagogies theory and Bourdieu's concepts of habitus, capitals, practice, and field, this book will be useful for scholars, researchers, and practitioners of voice pedagogy, higher music education, performance education, cultural studies, music, musical theatre, and theatre studies.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- 1 Marble buildings
- 2 Behind closed doors
- 3 What was going on in musical theatre one-to-one singing pedagogy in universities?
- 4 Where did you learn to teach?
- 5 Deep structures of voice pedagogy in universities in the United States
- 6 Habitus and capitals of musical theatre singing teachers
- 7 The field of voice pedagogy
- 8 Turning the corner?
- Index