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Basil Bernstein’s Theory of the Pedagogic Device Applied to Curriculum Construction in Music Education: From the Macro- to a Microview of Instructional Practices

Description: Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. This paper explains Basil Bernstein's theories of linguistic codes and pedagogic device, and is based on the premise that both the U.K. and the U.S. experience a cultural inversion.
Date: July 2009
Creator: Wright, Ruth & Froehlich, Hildegard
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Cage’s short visit to the classroom: Experimental music in music education – A sociological view on a radical move

Description: Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. This paper examines some aspects of the cultural, ideological and aesthetic underpinnings of a music education movement whose prime feature has been the use of experimental music and music-making practices within classrooms.
Date: July 2009
Creator: Kanellopoulos, Panagiotis A.
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Collaboration, Learning, and Connect

Description: Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. This paper describes the projects completed by music students at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil in a programme exploring how participatory arts projects can be led using highly student centered, creative approaches.
Date: July 2009
Creator: Feichas, Heloisa & Wells, Robert
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Competing Discourses: The Interplay of Musical Style and Patronage in Recife’s New Popular Music Scene

Description: Paper on the factors that affected of alternative popular music in Recife, Brazil. The contrasts between the discourses of bands, producers, and patrons reflect larger tensions in the Recife alternative music scene, which in turn point towards ruptures in the relationship between mainstream and alternative cultural production in Brazil.
Date: July 6, 2001
Creator: Murphy, John P. (John Patrick)
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Creating the Optimal Experience: An Analysis of Flow Theory Factors in High School Band Programs

Description: Undergraduate thesis explores the link between self-perceived flow states and a feeling of community belonging within the context of the high school band environment. The methodology observed a positive interdependence between a perceived sense of community and the flow parameters of challenge-skill ratio, utilization of clear goals, and provision of unambiguous feedback.
Date: Spring 2022
Creator: Murthy, Amrutha V.
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A Dichotomy of Experience in Irish traditional music – Classroom V Community

Description: Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. This paper investigates the extent to which a holistic understanding and appreciation or Irish traditional music is being realized by post-primary teachers and students in Ireland.
Date: July 2009
Creator: Johnston, Thomas
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Lessons from Extreme metal musicians: a perspective from Singapore

Description: Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. This paper revisits epistemological foundations of in/formal learning through music by making observations about songs and lessons learnt when studying an approach to music learning the practice of Extreme metal music.
Date: July 2009
Creator: Dairianathan, Eugene
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Lost in transformation: Mezirow, immigrants, and identity

Description: Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. This paper uses Mezirow's transformative learning theory to discuss the delicate balancing act of transforming while avoiding the feeling of rootlessness.
Date: July 2009
Creator: Qi, Nan
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Mangue Beat and Popular Culture

Description: This essay explores the author's perspective of Mangue Beat and popular culture. The discussion of popular culture focuses on the musical aspects of popular culture, especially those he experienced during his time living in Recife, Brazil from 1990-91. It includes a translation into Brazilian Portuguese by André Curiati de Paula Bueno.
Date: 2003
Creator: Murphy, John P. (John Patrick) & Bueno, André Curiati de Paula
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‘Mine’ and ‘other’: Cultural policy in the field of Music Education

Description: Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. This paper examines teaching approaches to multiculturalism and music education to propose a model of intervention fro dealing with learning and social difficulties.
Date: July 2009
Creator: Argyriou, Maria
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Music Appreciation: To What End?

Description: This paper was awarded a Nicholas and Anna Ricco Ethics Award for 2013. This paper discusses music appreciation. The author looks at who is qualified to teach a Music Appreciation course, what the true purpose of such a course is in the general curriculum, and what our responsibility in musically educating our citizens is.
Date: February 2013
Creator: Spring, Staci
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Um Nordeste Alternativo: A nova cena do Recife

Description: This paper focuses on music trends in Recife, Brazil in 2000-01. It explores how alternative music communicates a contemporary regional identity in Northeast Brazil, is affected by cultural politics, and circulates within the musical market, in order to show how the perceived demands of globalization, such as the need to consume the products of the global entertainment industry, intersect with the dynamics of a regional music community. It was presented at the first Associação Brasileira de Etn… more
Date: November 2002
Creator: Murphy, John P. (John Patrick)
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A Qualitative Study on Involving Youth and Extra-Curricular Music Activities

Description: Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. This paper describes a longitudinal study investigating the reasons, benefits, and impact on why twelve urban public school students volunteered in extra-curricular music activities.
Date: July 2009
Creator: Nam-Hai Leong, Tony
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