Teaching music in the urban classroom

Culturally relevant music can drive reform in urban education. Teaching Music in the Urban Classroom, Volume 1: A Guide to Survival, Success, and Reform opens a national-level conversation aimed at making that goal a reality.



This first of two volumes addresses cultural responsivity, teaching strategies, and alternative teaching models. Contributors, who include classroom music teachers, inner city arts administrators, well-known academics, and policy-makers from across the United States and Canada, offer a full range of political, philosophical, and practical approaches to reaching kids in urban schools.



These authors, whose voices are distinct and yet united, guide music educators at every level, motivating them to challenge tired assumptions, reconsider the issues, and transform their classrooms and their students.



See also: Teaching Music in the Urban Classroom, Volume 2



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• Foreword p. v Willie L. Hill Jr.
• Acknowledgments p. vii
• Introduction: Perspectives on Music in Urban Schools p. ix Carol Frierson-Campbell
• Part I Cultural Responsivity
• 1 Defining Ourselves as Other: Envisioning Transformative Possibilities p. 3 Cathy Benedict
• 2 Cultural Clashes: The Complexity of Identifying Urban Culture p. 15 Donna T. Emmanuel
• 3 Building Confianza: Using Dialogue Journals with English-Language Learners in Urban Schools p. 25 Regina Carlow
• 4 White Teacher, Students of Color: Culturally Responsive Pedagogy for Elementary General Music in Communities of Color p. 35 Kathy M. Robinson
• Part II Music Teacher Stories
• 5 The Challenges of Urban Teaching: Young Urban Music Educators at Work p. 57 Janice Smith
• 6 Teaching Music in Urban Landscapes: Three Perspectives p. 75 Carlos R. Abril
• Part III Teaching Strategies
• 7 Motivating Urban Music Students p. 99 Elizabeth Ann McAnally
• 8 Differentiating Instruction in the Choral Rehearsal: Strategies for Choral Conductors in Urban Schools p. 109 Daniel Abrahams
• 9 Building an Instrumental Music Program in an Urban School p. 117 Kevin Mixon
• 10 The String Chorale Concept p. 125 Jeanne Porcino Dolamore
• 11 The Small, Big City in Music Education: The Impacts of Instrumental Music Education for Urban Students p. 139 Karen Iken
• Part IV Alternative Teaching Models
• 12 A New Sound for Urban Schools: Rethinking How We Plan p. 153 Frank Abrahams and Patrick K. Schmidt
• 13 Music of Every Culture Has Something in Common and Can Teach Us about Ourselves: Using the Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method p. 165 Edward Green and Alan Shapiro
• 14 Music Educators in the Urban School Reform Conversation p. 177 Carol Frierson-Campbell
• About the Contributors p. 191