James R. Briscoe, ed., Vitalizing Music History Teaching

  • Andrew Dell’Antonio The University of Texas at Austin

Abstract

This edited collection provides a variety of perspectives on pedagogies of music history. Its approach is selective rather than systematic; each essay opens useful and sometimes fruitfully contradictory philosophical and methodological questions. Its diversity of approach, as well as the paperback format and thus reduced cost, make it a sound choice as a textbook for graduate-level courses in pedagogical approaches to our field—courses that are sorely needed at the core of doctoral programs in musicology.

 


Author Biography

Andrew Dell’Antonio, The University of Texas at Austin

Andrew Dell’Antonio is Professor in the Musicology/Ethnomusicology Division at the University of Texas-Austin Butler School of Music. He is a former Mellon Fellow at the Harvard-Villa I Tatti Center for Renaissance Studies in Florence, Italy, and the recipient of numerous teaching awards. His foremost research interest is the process of listening—how it has been characterized and fostered from the 1600s to the present, and how different modes of listening influence the social uses and cultural meanings of music. His edited collection Beyond Structural Listening? Postmodern Modes of Hearing (2004) and his monograph Listening as Spiritual Practice in Early Modern Italy (2011) are both available through The University of California Press.

Published
2011-06-08
Issue
Vol 2 No 1: (Fall 2011)
Section
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