Narrative Soundings: An Anthology of Narrative Inquiry in Music Education

354 Pages·2012·3.22 MB·English

by  Margaret S. Barrett

Narrative Soundings: An Anthology of Narrative
Inquiry in Music Education

Margaret S. Barrett (cid:129) Sandra L. Stauffer
Editors
Narrative Soundings:
An Anthology of Narrative
Inquiry in Music Education
Editors
Margaret S. Barrett Sandra L. Stauffer
The University of Queensland Arizona State University
School of Music School of Music
Level 4, Zelman Cowen Building Tempe, AZ
Brisbane, QLD USA
Australia [email protected]
[email protected]
ISBN 978-94-007-0698-9 e-ISBN 978-94-007-0699-6
DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-0699-6
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Contents
Resonant Work: Toward an Ethic of Narrative Research .......................... 1
Margaret S . Barrett and Sandra L. Stauffer
Part I Lives in Music and Musical Practices
Lives in Music and Musical Practices: A Prelude ....................................... 21
Margaret S . Barrett and Sandra L. Stauffer
Engaging Stories: Constructing Narratives of Women’s Military
Band Members ................................................................................................ 23
Janet Cape and Jeananne Nichols
Jeremiah Jones and the Musical Crusade .................................................... 37
David Cleaver
Learning in a Teen Garage Band: A Relational Narrative Inquiry ........... 61
Jane Baker
“Sheer Spine”: Evoking Past and Present
in the Southern Highlands .............................................................................. 79
Nathan B. Kruse
Part II Singular Stories and Master Narratives
Singular Stories and Master Narratives: A Prelude .................................... 97
Margaret S . Barrett and Sandra L. Stauffer
You’re In or You’re Out: The Impact of Preconceptions on Social
Development in the Kindergarten Music Classroom ................................... 99
Martina Miranda
Music Education in Homeschooling: Jamie’s Story .................................... 115
Jeananne Nichols
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Part III Narrative Lessons
Narrative Lessons: An Interlude ................................................................... 129
Margaret S . Barrett and Sandra L. Stauffer
Music Lessons and Other Stories: Partial Inventory ................................... 131
Rishma Dunlop
Part IV Being and Becoming a Teacher
Being and Becoming a Teacher: A Prelude .................................................. 159
Margaret S . Barrett and Sandra L. Stauffer
Rediscovering Musical Identity Through Narrative
in Pre-service Teacher Education .................................................................. 161
Adam Adler
Narratives from Preservice Music Teachers: Hearing Their
Voices While Singing with the Choir ............................................................. 179
Carole Richardson
Collaborative Journals: Scaffolding Refl ective Practice
in Teacher Education ...................................................................................... 201
Deborah V. Blair
Journey of Self-Exploration: Seeking Understanding Through
Musical and Cultural Experiences in South India ....................................... 219
Patricia E. Riley
Part V Stories of Selves
Stories of Selves: A Prelude ............................................................................ 233
Margaret S. Barrett and Sandra L. Stauffer
The Childhood of a Teacher: Allison’s Preservice Years
as Baby Pictures .............................................................................................. 235
Margaret Schmidt and Allison Zenner
Hitting the Trail Running: Roadmaps and Refl ections
on Informal Faculty Mentorship Experiences .............................................. 251
Shelley M. Griffi n = Rodger J. Beatty
Elementary General Music Teachers and Professional
Development: Kindling the Spark, Fanning the Flame,
and Keeping an Eye on the Fire ..................................................................... 275
Alison M. Reynolds
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Part VI Troubling Persistent Questions
Troubling Persistent Questions: A Prelude .................................................. 289
Margaret S . Barrett and Sandra L. Stauffer
Refusing Narratives: Functional Literacy and Determinism ..................... 291
Cathy Benedict
Student Composition in a Private Studio Setting:
Rethinking Assumptions ................................................................................ 305
Beth Ann Miller
Voices of Two Young Women: Listening to a Growing Selfhood ................ 329
Graça Mota
Author Index.................................................................................................... 351
Subject Index ................................................................................................... 355

Author Biographies
Adam Adler Adam Adler is Assistant Professor of Education—Curriculum

Studies/Music at Nipissing University in North Bay, Ontario, where he teaches
music methods and coordinates vocal and piano applied music. He previously
served on faculty at the University of Windsor and The Crane School of Music,
SUNY Potsdam. A narrative researcher and founding proponent of the c ritical
genderist perspective in music and educational research, his current research and
lecture efforts are focused on male gender issues in music and education, choral
community and sustainability, music teacher preparation, and music curriculum
policy. Adam has served as conductor for The Ford Motor Company Chorus
(Dearborn, Michigan), Just Singers Chamber Choir of Toronto, The University of
Toronto Hart House Singers, and is the founding Artistic Director of Near North
Voices—Nipissing University’s Community Choir. He has taught music in schools
across southern Ontario and abroad, and is active as a singer, choral clinician,
composer and arranger.
Jane Baker Jane Baker currently works within the Faculty of Education at the

University of Tasmania and is completing a PhD about music learning in garage
bands. Previously, she taught music, mathematics, and SOSE in a range of secondary
schools, in addition to working within literacy and numeracy programs for infants
and primary aged children. Alongside these pursuits, Jane has also worked as a
musician and singer since 1988, and continues to perform some gigs with a local
country band.
Margaret S. Barrett Margaret Barrett is Professor and Head of the School of

Music at The University of Queensland. Her research interests include the investi-
gation of the role of music and the arts in human thought and activity, creativity and
the pedagogy of creative thought and activity, young children’s musical thinking
and identity work in and through music, and the meaning and value of the arts for
young people. This research has been funded through grants from the Australian
Research Council, the Australia Council for the Arts, and the British Academy, and
has been published in the key journals of the discipline. Recent publications include:
A cultural psychology of music education (2011, OUP), and N arrative inquiry in
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