Foundations and frontiers of music education / Max Kaplan.

Author
Kaplan, Max, 1911-1998 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1966]
Description
viii, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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    Notes
    Includes indexes.
    Bibliographic references
    Bibliography: p. 238-245.
    Contents
    • 1. Social order and the arts : Yesterday, today, and tomorrow
    • Types of social orders
    • Relevance of the arts to social order
    • The present: the cogno society
    • 2. Sources of knowledge, the arts, and social order : Sources of knowledge
    • Art and social values
    • Need for the esthetic
    • Institutionalization of the esthetic
    • Social strengths behind the esthetic
    • 3. Musical functions and music education : Theories of musical functions
    • Esthetic functions
    • Social functions
    • Applications to music education
    • 4. Social roles and music education : The social role concept
    • Social roles in the creative experience
    • Social roles of the music director
    • Music roles and the community
    • Further studies
    • 5. Relations to the creative person : Introduction
    • Problems in the study of creativity
    • The study of creative persons
    • Case studies of musicians
    • Interpretations: social class
    • Interpretations: attitudes toward factors of success and failure
    • Interpretations: central values of the occupation
    • Interpretations: advice to students
    • Summary of personality profiles
    • Ideal types of personality studies
    • Implications of personality study for music education
    • Implications for university music education --
    • 6. Relations to the audience and society : Introduction
    • The interested and disinterested audience
    • The live audience: its sources of interest
    • The informal mass-media audience
    • The Detroit study: mass society and mass culture
    • 7. Music education and the community : Interests in the community
    • The family
    • The mass media, music, and the child
    • Adult education
    • Music for the aging and retired
    • Urban reconstruction
    • The Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra
    • The youth orchestra movement
    • 8. Music education as a profession : Profession: definitions
    • The music profession
    • Power distribution within the profession
    • The Florida clinic and beyond
    • The profession and its milieu
    • 9. Planning and research for music education : A plan for planning
    • Purposes of planning
    • Areas of planning
    • Goals of planning
    • Elements of planning
    • Research: its place in music education
    • The community as area for survey and research
    • Inventory of family resources for music education
    • Comments on the shortage of string players
    • Planning and research for leadership
    • Toward a sociology of music education.
    LCCN
    66010418
    OCLC
    611705
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