1st Edition

Research Perspectives on Music Education in Ibero-America Celebrating 10 Years of ISME’s Revista Internacional de Educación Musical

    264 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    This volume brings together a selection of essential articles from the journal Revista Internacional de Educación Musical (RIEM), a Spanish-language journal published by the International Society for Music Education, making this work available to an English-speaking audience for the first time. With chapters representing a wide range of countries in the Ibero-American world, including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Portugal, and Spain, the book aims to develop international exchange in the music education community. The book is structured around key themes, including music teacher training, youth music education, higher music education, and sociomusical programs, with a focus on opportunities for improvement across music education contexts inside and outside schools. Making vibrant research and practice from across the region available to a wider international audience, this book facilitates exchanges between researchers and educators and enhances global music education studies by highlighting groundbreaking work from Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries.

    Acknowledgements

    List of Figures

    List of Tables

    Abbreviations

     

    1. Celebrating 10-years if ISME’s Revista Internacional de Educación Musical: Music Education Research in Ibero-America

    ROSA M. SERRANO, GUADALUPE LÓPEZ-ÍÑIGUEZ, AND JOSÉ LUIS ARÓSTEGUI

    PART I

    Who and what is music education for? 

     

    1. Why teaching music is not enough: Musical education and its nomological network

    BASILIO FERNÁNDEZ-MORANTE AND AMALIA CASAS-MAS

    1. Music teacher education in Portugal. Contributions for a reflection in context

    GRAÇA MOTA

    1. On the functions of the “Music History” subject in the training of music teachers

    ANTENOR FERREIRA AND MARIA CRISTINA C. CARVALHO

    1. Reflections for the construction of an intercultural musical education: When the pedagogical and the epistemological disagree

    SILVIA M. CARABETTA

     

    PART II

    Higher Music Education: Challenging Hegemony and Sustainability

     

    1. Popular music in higher education: The consolidation of the field in teaching and research

    EDUARDO VIÑUELA

    1. Predictors of academic performance and attribution in a Music Bachelor’s Degree in Mexico

    JUAN PABLO CORREA AND IRMA-SUSANA CARBAJAL-VACA

    1. A proposal for a theoretical framework to address entrepreneurship in higher music education

    MARGARITA LORENZO DE REIZÁBAL AND MANUEL BENITO GÓMEZ

     

    PART III

    Transforming Teaching and Learning in Music Education

     

    1. Acquisition of musical notation from the perspective of the learner. A study in young people without specific musical studies

    MARÍA INÉS BURCET, CAMILA MARÍA BELTRAMONE, SOFÍA BELÉN UZAL, AND SOFÍA MELINA RIGOTTI

    1. Formal and informal music learning strategies: Instrument development and validation

    RUBÉN CARRILLO AND PATRICIA A. GONZÁLEZ-MORENO

    1. The validity and efficacy of breathing exercises to reduce performance anxiety in the music classroom

    PABLO RAMOS

    PART IV

    Social Justice and Music Education: Challenges for Leadership and Sustainability

     

    1. Before you turn the page: Connecting the parallel worlds of El Sistema and critical research

    GEOFFREY BAKER

    1. Yucatan musical youth bands: Challenges to implement a social-musical program

    PAULINA BAUTISTA CUPUL

    1. Musical conducting in the “Guitárregas” guitar ensemble: A leadership based on the self-determination of music teachers

    ROLANDO ANGEL-ALVARADO AND JOSÉ ÁLAMOS-GÓMEZ

     

    Closing chapter

     

    1. What does music education research in and of Ibero-America add to prevailing international discourses? A view from the outside

    GWEN MOORE

     

    Index

    Biography

    Rosa M. Serrano is Professor of Music Education at the University of Zaragoza, Spain.

    Guadalupe López-Íñiguez is Associate Professor of Music Education at Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts, Helsinki, Finland.

    José Luis Aróstegui is Professor of Music Education at the University of Granada, Spain.

    Gwen Moore is Associate Professor of Music Education at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland.