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Crafting Identities, Remapping Nationalities: The English-Speaking World in the Age of Globalization
Editor: Cécile Coquet-Mokoko and Trevor Harris
Date Of Publication: Mar 2012
Isbn13: 978-1-4438-3578-7
Isbn: 1-4438-3578-1
In the different versions of multiculturalism that have re-shaped English-speaking societies and political systems, identities appear more plastic than in societies which have constructed their national narratives on more stubborn denials of their colonial and patriarchal pasts; yet, the myth of purity (or authenticity) and separatist temptations remain very real parameters of identity politics. In such contexts, crafting an identity for oneself implies expectations of consistency, linked not only to the individual need to prove oneself and disprove stereotypes and statistics, but also to the broader political goal of dis-alienating or, as it were, de-Othering oneself and one’s community. The contributors to this book explore the different ways – from the most institutional to the most intimate – in which people articulate the politics of memory and the creation of national narratives, or communal and personal identities.
Cécile Coquet-Mokoko has been Associate Professor of African American and American Studies at the University of Tours, France for the past ten years. She received her PhD in African American Studies under the supervision of Prof. Geneviève Fabre (University of Paris 7) in 1998 and her work, Le prédicateur afro-américain et l’art du sermon: une poétique de l’élection, was published by Presses du Septentrion (Lille, France) in 2000. Her publications focus on African American religious traditions, oratory, and gender relations. After teaching African American Studies for a year and a half at the University of Alabama, where she did sociological fieldwork in 2009–2010, she is currently working on a comparative study of the representations and self-representations of interracial couples in Alabama and in France.
Trevor Harris is Professor of British Civilisation in the Department of English Studies at the University of Tours, France. He has worked extensively on the political and the intellectual history of Britain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and on British foreign policy, as well as the relationship between these in the construction and evolution of British national identity. His most recent book is Une Certaine idée de l’Angleterre in the collection “L’Histoire au présent” (Paris: Armand Colin, 2006).
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“We rarely have the opportunity and time to engage with the practicalities of music teaching through the lens of evidence-based practice. This book provides us with a wonderful exception that is accessible to beginning and established teachers. It contains a wide range of stimulating and thought-provoking material that draws on real-world experiences and events, which are contextualised, informed and structured by theory. This is a powerful combination that we can visit again and again for insight and inspiration. Congratulations to all involved, particularly the editors for shaping such a valuable contribution!”
—Professor Graham F. Welch, University of London; President, International Society of Music Education
“Navigating music and sound education draws together a range of issues increasingly acknowledged to be at the basis of reflective and effective music learning and teaching: social settings, cultural dimensions, gender, indigeneity, varying cognitive approaches, inter-disciplinary connections, technology, types of learning, and creativity. It opens up areas of pedagogy that go beyond classroom methodology to acknowledge student individuality and encourage music learning and teaching grounded in the reality of students’ musical and social lives. It will be invaluable for those training to become educators and for teachers already in the field.”
—Associate Professor Peter Dunbar-Hall, University of Sydney
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Navigating Music and Sound Education is a wonderful guide and resource for pre-service music teachers, for teachers in the field, and for teacher educators.
It offers a range of fresh perspectives on the state of music education as it is and as it might be. Kari K Veblen
Navigating Music and Sound Education is an ambitious project which features current research from 20 individuals whose professional identities run the gamut from musician to songwriter to student to educator to music therapist to ethnomusicologist. The book’s scope is perhaps the most exciting aspect of Navigating Music and Sound Education.
Kari K Veblen
University of Western Ontario
British Journal of Music Education
October 2011
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