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So what are we afraid of?
Through the work and reading I have been undertaking recently really got me thinking about why some music educators may get the fear when...
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Creativity and Popular Culture
In his journal article “Creativity and Cultural Production: A Study of Contemporary Western Popular Music Songwriting,” Phillip McIntyre...
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Lyrics and Wellbeing
“Words make you think….music makes you feel….but a song makes you feel thoughts” (Yip Harburg) This quote is taken from Tricia Fox...
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Whose music is it anyway?
StartFragment I read a journal article from “Research Studies in Music Education” by S. Alex Ruthman entitled, “Whose agency matters?...
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Excitement breeds excitement.
Not long after I first began my teaching career, I was timetabled with a class of S3 students. These were young people who had chosen...
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Creativity in popular culture
In his journal article “Creativity and Cultural Production: A Study of Contemporary Western Popular Music Songwriting,” Phillip McIntyre...
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Lyrics and well being
“Words make you think….music makes you feel….but a song makes you feel thoughts” (Yip Harburg) This quote is taken from Tricia Fox...