"...uses psychology to understand musical behaviour and experience in a range of circumstances, including composing and performing, listening and persuading, and teaching and learning. ...critically examines the ways in which psychology can explain people's diverse experience of, and engagement with music, focusing on how music is used, acquired, and made in a range of familiar musical contexts.... tackles the psychology of playing, improvising, and composing music, understood as closely related and integrated activities. ...[addresses] the ways in which people listen to music, manage their emotions, moods, and identities with music, and use music for therapy, persuasion and social control. ...[considers] music in human development, and in a range of more formal and informal educational contexts. ...provides an overview of the history and preoccupations of music psychology as a discipline..." -Publisher

"Noted music educator Bennett Reimer has selected 24 of his previously published articles from a variety of professional journals spanning the past 50 years. During that time, he's tackled generating core values for the field of music education; the core in larger societal and educational contexts; what to teach and how to teach it effectively; how we need to educate our teachers; the role of research in our profession; and how to improve our future status." -Publisher

"a wealth of historical information aimed at promoting music education for every student now and in the future... a collection of addresses from the Centennial Congress of MENC, featuring national decision makers and respected leaders in music education. Today's students embrace a multifaceted approach to learning and their ability to utilize technology seems to be evolving at breakneck speed. Consequently, teachers and our profession need to reframe how we approach music education." - Publisher

"...examines the rich and challenging complexities of music teaching and learning from a variety of perspectives.... including assessment, philosophical foundations, technology, mentoring, critical theory, and musical development... [links] current educational theory to pedagogical inquiry of current educational practice, calling for teachers to critically reflect on such professional activities as lesson planning, curriculum design, repertoire choice, and student evaluation." - Publisher

"...investigates the practices and ideas that have grown from some five decades of cultural diversity in music education, developments in ethnomusicology, and the rise of 'world music'... makes a powerful case for the crucial role of learning music in shaping rich and diverse musical environments for the 21st century... Advocating a contemporary, positive and realistic approach to cultural diversity in music education and transmission, Schippers advocates taking into account and celebrating the natural dynamics of music... [and] challenges stifling directives to recreate 'authentic contexts', which in fact constantly change..." -Publisher

"...uses psychology to understand musical behaviour and experience in a range of circumstances, including composing and performing, listening and persuading, and teaching and learning. ...critically examines the ways in which psychology can explain people's diverse experience of, and engagement with music, focusing on how music is used, acquired, and made in a range of familiar musical contexts.... tackles the psychology of playing, improvising, and composing music, understood as closely related and integrated activities. ...[addresses] the ways in which people listen to music, manage their emotions, moods, and identities with music, and use music for therapy, persuasion and social control. ...[considers] music in human development, and in a range of more formal and informal educational contexts. ...provides an overview of the history and preoccupations of music psychology as a discipline..." -Publisher

"...focuses on the near total attrition of African American students from school music programs and the travesty of democratic education that it symbolizes. It outlines an 'anatomy' of dropping out and a tour through the music curriculum’s lesser-known dimensions. Describing how the field became entangled with aesthetics associated with whiteness, Gustafson examines the teaching of singing, listening, and bodily motion in general music classes on all levels. What makes this historical investigation unique is its focus on the body and its linking instructional principles to racialist projects such as minstrelsy, early psychoacoustic experiments, and body culture movements. This book considers how understanding this history makes a space for change without resorting to the simplistic, distorted conclusion that the schools and music teachers are racist." - Publisher

"...looks at our basic musical faculties - how we perceive sounds, distinguish their pitch and structure, and recognise rhythm... examines the nature of musical empathy - what it is that allows us to perceive and emotionally connect with music. ...focuses on the creative processes behind writing music... deals with music education, looking at the role of innate and inherited characteristics in the formation of talent, and considering why many who excel at an early age, burn out later on. The book ends exploring how musical development can shape the human brain, strengthening other cognitive faculties, including those unrelated to music." -Publisher

"...combines theory, research and activities to produce practical suggestions for enhancing client participation in the therapy process. ...surveys the literature on art therapy; somatic approaches; emotion- activating models; use of music, writing and dreamwork; and the implications of the new findings in neuroscience... includes step-by-step instructions for implementing expressive therapies techniques, and contains a wide range of experiential activities..." -Publisher

"...shows how neuroscience can enhance our understanding of certain features of art. ...illustrates a humanistic approach to the arts... written entirely without recourse to neuroscience... [its] humanistic style is marked particularly by immersion in the individual work and by evaluation, rather than by detachment in the search for generalizations... Massey argues that... once the reality of imagination is accepted neuroscience can be seen as the collaborator, not the inquisitor, of the arts." - Publisher

"...provides a detailed outline of resources available for research and/or training in piano pedagogy... serves beginning and advanced students and scholars as a basic guide to current research in the field... includes bibliographies, research guides, encyclopedias, works from other disciplines that are related to piano pedagogy, current sources spanning all formats, including books, journals, audio and video recordings, and electronic sources." -Publisher

"Bernarr Rainbow is widely recognised as the leading authority on the history of music education, from the Greeks up to the present day... His ambitious series, Classic Texts in Music Education, provides editions of manuals covering methods of teaching music from the sixteenth century to the twentieth. Professor Rainbow wrote detailed prefaces to the manuals, which are conveniently collected in this volume, offering insights into and analysis of those who taught music in different times and places and the methods they employed." -Publisher