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Music Education for the Twenty-First Century

Music Education for the Twenty-First Century

Legacies, conversations, aspirations

Edited by John OFlynn and Patricia Flynn

Imprint: Cork University Press

This inaugural volume in the Studies in Irish Music Education series is the first publication to bring together a unique collection of papers by leading national and international authors with wide expertise and extensive experience in the field

280 Pages

Hardcover
9781782055792
Published: October 2023

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The series, and inaugural volume, uniquely celebrates what is by now a substantial corpus of academic work on a field of practice that has been thriving for several decades — in spite of the many challenges that music educators in Ireland continue to face. Its various chapters engage with arts and education policies, with international developments and comparative educational systems and, crucially, with the concerns of teachers, students, musicians, schools, higher education institutions, music development agencies and broader communities of practice.

List of illustrations

List of abbreviations

Series foreword

Acknowledgements

Notes on contributors

Introduction. Music Education for the Twenty-First Century
John O’Flynn and Patricia Flynn

Part One: Legacies

Chapter 1 The Music Education National Debate, 1994–6: Contested legacies, pivotal conversations and future aspirations

Gwen Moore

Chapter 2 MEND-ing Music Education: The evolution of the Irish World Academy

Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin and Helen Phelan

Chapter 3 ‘A butterfly is an event’: The Irish Leaving Certificate Music Syllabus and its frailties

Harry White

Part Two: Conversations

Chapter 4 The Creative Muddle of Music Education

Keith Swanwick (with an introduction by John O’Flynn)

Chapter 5 A Developing Discourse: Music as humanities in higher education

John O’Flynn

Chapter 6 David Elliott on Music Education Legacies and Aspirations: A conversation with John O’Flynn (with an introduction by Patricia Flynn)

Part Three: Aspirations

Chapter 7 Evolving Discourses in Instrumental/Vocal Music Education in Ireland: Expanding pedagogical perspectives

Mary Lennon

Chapter 8 Performance Music Education for Future Generations

Patricia Flynn

Chapter 9 Future Visions of Music Education: What can we learn about teaching from the year 2020?

Randall Everett Allsup

Chapter 10 Fostering a Culture of Research in Irish Music Education: Local landscapes, international horizons

Marie McCarthy

Appendix. Dissertations and Theses Relating to Music Education Studies in Ireland

Compiled by John O’Flynn

Notes

Selected bibliography

Index

John O’Flynn is Professor of Music at Dublin City University. He is currently President of the Society for Musicology in Ireland (2021-2024). He is author of a number of books including Music, the Moving Image and Ireland (2022) and co-editor of Made in Ireland: Studies in Popular Music (2020) Ceol Phádraig: Music at St Patrick’s College Drumcondra (2019) and Music and Identity in Ireland and Beyond (2014/2016).

Patricia Flynn is Head of the School of Theology, Philosophy, and Music, and Associate Professor of Music at Dublin City University. Her research centres on music development in Ireland and national infrastructure for the arts. Principal Investigator in the Local Authorities and Music Project in partnership with Wexford and Sligo Local Authorities and the Arts Council and also in the Diversity in Performance Music Education Project with Music Generation. Her research also engages with music development in wider society, in performance music education and in areas of national cultural importance.

Easy to read in three distinct sections, what we started with 60 years ago, what we think about it, and where we hope to go...A seminal read to understanding music education in Ireland. ~David Agnew, Sound Post

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