Music Education in Rural America

Volume I: Policies and Perspectives
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-81175-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 312 g

This two-volume publication is the first of its kind, advancing asset-based policies and practices in music education for nearly 10 million rural students nationwide. By exploring the influence of urbanormativity and historical trends, the authors advocate for school music programs that sustain rural values, interests, communities, and ecosystems.

While earlier research has offered insights on the topic, none have assembled a collection of experts and scholars committed to promoting an asset-based view of rural music education in the United States. Volume I: Policies and Perspectives, presents ten chapters addressing a range of issues that affect one-fifth of K–12 students nationwide. Ideas encompass a multi-dimensional definition of rurality that includes population, landscape, and sociocultural contexts. The authors offer their own first-hand perspectives to describe the importance and character of rural places themselves. Throughlines of this volume are disentangling assumptions about rural schools and their resources, pedagogical potential, and musical possibilities. Written for music educators, scholars, policymakers, school administrators, and music-teacher educators, this volume affirms that geography is not inherently a limitation and that all students deserve access to responsive music education, regardless of their zip codes.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Johnson, Daniel C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikinstrumente Instrumentenunterricht & Lernanleitungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Volksmusik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Agrarsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Preface

Acknowledgements

Contributor Biographies

Chapter 1. History and Current Landscape of Rural Music Education: Policy and Praxis

J. Kessa Roberts and Alycia Cole

Chapter 2. Surveying the Field: A Systematic Review of Rural Music Education Research in the United States

Timothy E. Nowak

Chapter 3. Urbanormativity in Rural School Music

Vincent C. Bates

Chapter 4. The Intersections of School, Community, and Music in Rural Spaces

Whitney Mayo

Chapter 5. Place-Based Pedagogy and Rural Communities as Cultural Contexts

Catheryn Shaw Foster and Melody Causby

Chapter 6. Love Your Mother: How Ecology Can Inform Music Teaching and Learning in Rural Settings

Daniel J. Shevock

Chapter 7. Preservice Music Teacher Education: Preparing the Next Generation for Rural Schools

Daniel C. Johnson and Eric M. Pennello

Chapter 8. Rural Music Teacher Retention and Turnover

David N. Sanderson

Chapter 9. Answering the Call for Rural Music Teacher Professional Development

Daniel C. Johnson

Chapter 10. Potential Unexplored: Land-Grant Institutions, Rural Engagement, and Music Education

Jason B. Gossett and Angela Munroe

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel C. Johnson is Professor of Music and Music Education at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, where he coordinates Graduate Studies in Music Education.