Music Education in Rural America

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Music Education in Rural America Volume II: A Teacher Guidebook offers practical resources to support K-12 music teacher success in rural schools, addressing the unique challenges they face and offering solutions tailored to their needs.

Music Education in Rural America: Volume II: A Teacher Guidebook offers practical resources to support K-12 music teacher success in rural schools, addressing the unique challenges they face and offering solutions tailored to their needs.

Through voices and views from both in-service rural music teachers and experienced teacher-educators, this guidebook provides practical ideas based on decades of teaching and professional development experience. Drawing together contributors with first-hand teaching experience in a wide variety of rural settings across the country, this book addresses the needs of general, instrumental, and choral music teachers, while also encompassing broader issues such as professional isolation, advocacy, community connections, and program resources. The contributors also offer their own pragmatic advice for supportive skills such as funding, making interdisciplinary connections, and fostering eco-literacy.

Introducing innovative pedagogies within traditional and progressive educational frameworks, the authors provide multiple solutions to the challenges commonly faced by rural schools while confronting assumptions about their resources, pedagogical potential, and musical possibilities. Written for music teachers, music teacher-educators, and school administrators, Music Education in Rural America: Volume II: A Teacher Guidebook affirms that geography is not necessarily a limitation and that all students deserve access to responsive music education, regardless of their zip codes.

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Chapter 1. Teaching Music in Rural Schools: Resources to Support Pedagogical Practices

Melody Causby, Catheryn Shaw Foster, and Daniel C. Johnson

Chapter 2. A Holistic Approach to General Music Education in Rural Schools

Daniel C. Johnson, Whitney Mayo, and Laura Black

Chapter 3. Choral Music Education in Rural Schools: Traditions, Community, and Lifelong Music-Making

Jacob Berglin

Chapter 4. Leading Rural School Bands: Balancing Community Expectations, Supporting Students, and Managing Program Resources

Eric M. Pennello and Jason B. Gossett

Chapter 5. Contemporary Music Making and Modern Ensembles in Rural Schools

Joseph Campbell

Chapter 6. The Many Roles of Generalist Music Teachers in Rural Schools

Melissa Jmaeff and Stacey Atwell-Keister

Chapter 7. The Interdisciplinary Music Curriculum in Rural Schools

Daniel C. Johnson and Amorette B. Languell-Pudelka

Chapter 8. Communicate to Advocate: Strategies for Identifying and Generating Support for Rural Music Programs

Whitney Mayo

Chapter 9. Funding Disparities in Rural Schools: Common Solutions and Creative Alternatives

James Eldreth

Chapter 10. Back to the Future: Rural Music Education for a Living Planet

Vincent C. Bates and Daniel J. Shevock