Viewing the plurality of creativity in music as being of paramount importance to the field of music education, The Routledge Companion to Creativities in Music Education provides a wide-ranging survey of practice and research perspectives.
Bringing together philosophical and applied foundations, this volume draws together an array of international contributors, including leading and emerging scholars, to illuminate the multiple forms creativity can take in the music classroom, and how new insights from research can inform pedagogical approaches.
In over 50 chapters, it addresses theory, practice, research, change initiatives, community, and broadening perspectives. A vital resource for music education researchers, practitioners, and students, this volume helps advance the discourse on creativities in music education.
Viewing the plurality of creativity in music as being of paramount importance to the field of music education, The Routledge Companion to Creativities in Music Education provides a wide-ranging survey of research and research to practice perspectives.
PART 1: Theoretical Good Vibrations
1. Tuning up: Creativities illuminate our discourse
Clint Randles and Pamela Burnard
2. On Creativities and Traditions: A Confucian Perspective with Insights for
Music Education
Leonard Tan and Mengchen Lu
3. Cyberfeminism and "creativities": Artivism for music teaching and
learning
Marissa Silverman
4. Interpretation and Listening in the Domain of Music and Sound
Creativities
Rebecca M. Rinsema
5. Re-thinking Planning for a Creative Music Curriculum
Victoria Kinsella and Martin Fautley
6. Playing with Freedom: A Reimagining of Play and Imagination in Vocal Music
Education
Kexin Xu
7. Information literacy as a factor for musical creativity enhancement:
Challenges and prospects for music education
Charilaos Lavranos and Charles Patterson
8. Multiple Creativities as a Natural Progression of the Origins of the
Universe: A Justification for Music Education from Spirituality
Clint Randles
PART 2: Foundational Creativities
9. Teacher-as-Improvisational Artist: Weaving the Web of Inclusive Praxis in
Early Childhood and Elementary Music
Karen Salvador and Erika J. Knapp
10. Video Clubs as Catalysts for Developing Music Educators Creative Music
Making Practices
Donna J. Gallo
11. Where does that go? Responding to disruption in higher education through
technology and creativities amidst the COVID-19 pandemic
Malachi Apudo-Achola
Part 3: New Possibilities for New Creativities: Inspiring/Catalyzing
Curriculum Change
12. Beyond the surface of culturally responsive pedagogies: Hip-Hop,
creativity and affirming the voices of students of color
Judy Lewis
13. Sparking and Sustaining the Songwriting Process
adam patrick bell, Juan Cacho, and Ismail Okasha
14. Beyond careers: composing musical lives through metamusical creativity
Lloyd McArton
15. Teaching and learning creativity as content: A tool-dependent process
Niklas Rudback and Cecilia Wallerstedt
16. Music Educators Perspectives on Songwriting
Lauren Ryals
17. Songwriting Class as a Place for Healing
John Kratus
18. Group Creativities: Mapping The Creative Process of Mobile Music
Creation
Jason Chi Wai Chen
19. Childrens Traditional Playground Musicking, Creativity, and Media
Culture
Martina Vasil
20. The DAW Revolution
Matthew Clauhs and Brian Dozoretz
21. Through the Lens of Collaborative Creativity: Examining Compositional
Processes in a GarageBand Activity Based on Group Assignment
Samuel C. Holmes
22. Pursuing diversity and inclusivity through hip hop music genres: Insights
for mainstream music curricula
Pamela Burnard, Pete Dale, Simon Glenister, Jim Reiss, Raphael Travis, Elliot
Gann and Alinka Greasley
Part 4: Playing the Changes: Attuning to Diverse Creativities in Practice
23. The Pendulum Swings Tired: Deweys "Passivity, Activity and Creativity in
a Progressive Secondary Music Classroom
Brad Anthony Fuller and James Henry Byrne Humberstone
24. The Transformation of the Kenyan Higher Music Education Space
Emily Achieng Akuno
25. Creating spaces for Songwriters, Collaborators and Musicians in Higher
Education
Jonathan Kladder and Radio Cremata
26. Activist Pluralism as Intercultural Creativity in Conservatory Education
James Henry Byrne Humberstone and Caitlin Bree Sandiford
27. A Case for Adopting a Collaborative Pedagogical Model in the Large
Ensemble Music Classroom to Open the Door for Diverse Creativities
Lauren Yacht
PART 5: Creativities Authored With/In the Wider Community
28. Online Music Learning: Which Creativities Matter?
Michele Biasutti
29. The Creativities of an Online Music Community During a Global Health
Crisis
Emmett James OLeary
30. Activating and Developing Free Improvisational Creativities in Higher
Education: Contesting Authority, Exploring Creativities, Stimulating
Dialogue
Chris Atton, Matthew Cowan, Harry Docherty, Kaelin Farnish, Zack Moir, and
Euan Pattie
31. Collaborative Compositional Creativity: Composers perspectives on
student and teacher input
Tessandra Wendzich and Bernard W. Andrews
32. Taking a Leaf from "Giant Steps": A Small Step Towards Future-Readiness
Eddy Chong
33. Creativities in music and creativities through music: Symbiotic
weaknesses in Greek-Cypriot Primary Education
Stavros Makris, Graham Welch and Evangelos Himonides
34. Supporting Multiple Musical Creativities with Generations Z and Alpha
Through a Compassionate Music Teaching Approach
Karin S. Hendricks
35. #creativityeveryday- Instagram as a creative tool
Himasha Gunasekara, Cheryl Brown and Stuart Wise
Part 6: Re-thinking, Re-searching, Re-visioning Creativities in Performance
36. Making silence matter: Rethinking Performance Creativity as a Catalyzing
Space for Sounding Oneself in Music Education
Pamela Burnard and Nick Sorensen
37. Ubimus strategies for colocated and remote educational activities:
Harmonic Walk and Live Patching
Damián Keller, Marcella Mandanici, and Marcello Messina
38. Embodied Music Pedagogy and Musical Creativities in Action
Dylan van der Schyff
39. Gratitude During Times of Uncertainty: Connections to Creativities in
Music Education
H. Christian Bernhard II
40. Musical Creativities, Spirituality, and Playing Drum Kit in Black Light
Bastards
Gareth Dylan Smith
41. Voicing plural creative experiences without a voice
Thomas Moors and Evangelos Himonides
42. In amongst transdisciplinary dialogue and participatory creativity: Group
improvisation in secondary school
Carlos Lage-Gómez & Roberto Cremades-Andreu
43. Understanding the Terrain in Creativities Research: Mapping an
International Symposium in Music Education
Asher Carlson, Jazmin Ghent, Brian Panetta, Charles Patterson, and Clint
Randles
Part 7: Widening Perspectives: New Departures and New Positionings
44. Instrumental Music Education: intra-action and relationality for creative
pedagogies in the music studio learning
Leon R de Bruin
45. Project-Based Learning and Students Individual Creativity in Music
Teacher Education: Learning, Teaching, and Performing Popular Music in
Virtual Spaces
Jonathan Kladder
46. Students as the Educator: A Student-centric Model for Curriculum
Development
Jonathan McElroy
47. Creativity Development, Service Learning, and Spirituality in Music
Education
Alexander Koops
48. Reconfiguring the Future of Music Education through Pluralism, Openness
and Authorship of New Creativities
Pamela Burnard and Clint Randles
Clint Randles is Associate Professor of Music Education at the University of South Florida School of Music, where he teaches and conducts research on contemporary musicianship, music production, recording arts, songwriting, and creativity conceptions.
Pamela Burnard is Professor of Arts, Creativities and Educations at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. She is an international expert in creativities research and practice.
