Chances and Choices

Stephanie Pitts is Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Music Department of the University of Sheffield, and author of Valuing Musical Participation: Case Studies of Music Identity and Belonging (Ashgate Ltd., 2005) and, with Eric Clarke and Nicola Dibben, Music and Mind in Everyday Life (OUP, 2009).

Chapter 1: Investigating the impact of music education ; 1.1 Whose story? Defining and interpreting musical life histories ; 1.2 Aims, scope and limitations ; 1.3 Approaches to data collection and analysis ; 1.4 Existing research on musical life histories ; 1.5 Global perspectives on music education ; 1.6 Structures and voices in this book ; Interlude A ; Interlude B ; Chapter 2: Learning across generations: musical childhoods in twentieth century Britain ; 2.1 Lifelong learning: a reasonable aim for music education? ; 2.2 Life histories in context: British music education in the twentieth century ; 2.3 Generational trends in formative musical experiences ; 2.3.1 1930s-1950s: gramophones, piano lessons and school assemblies ; 2.3.2 1960s-1970s: encouragement and independence ; 2.3.3 1980s-1990s: musical pluralism and exploration ; 2.4 Historical trends, current debates ; 2.4.1 Classroom music ; 2.4.2 Music outside the classroom ; 2.4.3 Teacher and parent attitudes ; 2.4.4 Music in the home ; 2.4.5 Lifelong learning and involvement ; Interlude C ; Interlude D ; Chapter 3: Locations for musical learning ; 3.1 Where musical learning happens ; 3.2 The characteristics of supportive musical environments ; 3.3 Extra-curricular music-making ; 3.4 Musical self-education ; 3.5 An Italian perspective - music as specialist education ; 3.6 Summary: situated learning for music ; Interlude E ; Interlude F ; Chapter 4: freeiring, affirming, challenging: significant people in musical learning 106 ; 4.1 What makes a memorable classroom music teacher? ; 4.2 Instrumental teachers as mentors ; 4.3 Parents as role models and mentors ; 4.4 Siblings, extended family and friendships as sources of musical learning ; 4.5 Learning from learning: becoming teachers and parents ; 4.6 Summary: musical supporters and role models ; Interlude G ; Interlude H ; Chapter 5: Opportunities and outcomes in lifelong musical engagement ; 5.1 Musical routes and roots ; 5.2 Becoming music educators ; 5.3 Becoming music-makers ; 5.4 Becoming adult learners ; 5.5 Becoming listeners and concert-goers ; 5.6 Summary: foundations for lifelong musical involvement ; Interlude I ; Interlude J ; Chapter 6: Rhetoric and reality: the real impact of music education ; 6.1 Overview: learning from life histories ; 6.2 Historical rhetoric and remembered reality ; 6.3 Contemporary rhetoric and future opportunities ; 6.4 Summary: relevance and timelessness in musical learning ; Interlude K ; Interlude L ; Chapter 7: Chances, choices and conclusions ; 7.1 Chances and choices in musical education ; 7.2 The usefulness of life history approaches ; 7.3 Recommendations and future directions ; Postlude ; Glossary ; References ; Index