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Narrative Soundings: An Anthology of Narrative Inquiry in Music Education

  • This volume provides a comprehensive anthology of exemplars of narrative inquiry research in the fields of music and music education
  • The two volumes by these editors are the only texts available that address the application of qualitative methods in music education
  • Offers indispensible information on the application of qualitative research methods in music education

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
  2. Resonant Work: Toward an Ethic of Narrative Research

    • Margaret S. Barrett, Sandra L. Stauffer
    Pages 1-17
  3. Lives in Music and Musical Practices

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-22
    2. Jeremiah Jones and the Musical Crusade

      • David Cleaver
      Pages 37-59
  4. Singular Stories and Master Narratives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-97
    2. Music Education in Homeschooling: Jamie’s Story

      • Jeananne Nichols
      Pages 115-125
  5. Narrative Lessons

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-129
  6. Stories of Selves

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 231-234
    2. The Childhood of a Teacher: Allison’s Preservice Years as Baby Pictures

      • Margaret Schmidt, Allison Zenner
      Pages 235-249

About this book

This volume focuses specifically on narrative inquiry as a means to interrogate research questions in music education, offering music education researchers indispensible information on the use of qualitative research methods, particularly narrative, as appropriate and acceptable means of conducting and reporting research.

This anthology of narrative research work in the fields of music and education builds on and supports the work presented in the editors’ first volume in Narrative Inquiry in Music Education: Troubling Certainty (Barrett & Stauffer, 2009, Springer). The first volume provides a context for undertaking narrative inquiry in music education, as well as exemplars of narrative inquiry in music education and commentary from key international voices in the fields of narrative inquiry and music education respectively. 

Reviews

From the reviews:

“Narrative Soundings takes the reader on a highly worthwhile journey across that fertile ground: through the philosophical underpinnings of the discipline; via numerous research examples … and on to narrative enquirers’ reflections on the research process. Its audience will be broad and, as a satisfied traveller, I recommend the book wholeheartedly.” (David Baker, British Journal of Music Education, Vol. 30 (2), 2013)

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Music, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

    Margaret S. Barrett

  • School of Music, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA

    Sandra L. Stauffer

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Narrative Soundings: An Anthology of Narrative Inquiry in Music Education

  • Editors: Margaret S. Barrett, Sandra L. Stauffer

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0699-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-0698-9Published: 29 February 2012

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8473-3Published: 13 April 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-0699-6Published: 27 February 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 360

  • Topics: Creativity and Arts Education

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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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