In Search of Music Education

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Summary: thought provoking
Review: In this book Emille Jorgenson asks a provocative question why bother educating musicians and comes up with some original answers. As both a musical philosopher and a philosopher of music she teaches us how to expand the narrow conventional approaches to musical education and generate an "inclusive whole" where everyone who enjoys music can feel the "excitement of participation". Whether one is a professional classical musician or a street busker with a comb and paper or an Australian Aborigine with a diggery doo, we all have music education issues that Estelle can address. In this book the author invites the reader into the adventure that is the generation of a clear philosophical approach to understanding what we mean by the word Music and teaches us how to like Gamelan music and Beijing opera. Having studied music all my life I have realized, after reading this book, that I have barely scratched beneath the surface of the most important issues of music education.

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Summary: ok
Review: I`m a professor of violin.I finished the National Music Academy in Kiev,Ukraine.I`m 25year old. Can I continue my education in Europe or America?How?

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Summary: Not worth reading!
Review: This book is a waste of time. It is boring, pedantic, unoriginal, forced, poorly written and of no practical use to music educators. Most of the theoretical ideas do not belong to Jorgensen herself; she owes her few good ideas to other scholars in music education who Jorgensen fails to credit. So, add poor scholarship to the above.