Narrative Soundings An Anthology of Narrative Inquiry in Music Education [Hardcover]

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.?

Building on the work in the editors first text on the subject, this further exploration of the topic provides an anthology of narrative research work in the fields of music and education that shows how narrative inquiry has been taken up by music education.

Resonant Work: Toward an Ethic of Narrative Research by Margaret S. Barrett and Sandra L. Stauffer .- Section 1. Introduction . Engaging Stories: Constructing Narratives of Womens Military Band Members by Janet Cape and Jeananne Nichols . Jeremiah Jones and the Musical Crusade by David Cleaver . Learning in a Teen Garage Band: A Relational Narrative Inquiry by Jane Baker . Sheer Spine: Evoking Past and Present in the Southern Highlands by Nathan B. Kruse .- Section 2. Introduction . Youre in or Youre out: Impact of Preconceptions on Social Development in the Kindergarten Music Classroom by Martina Miranda . Music Education in Homeschooling: Jamies Story by Jeananne Nichols .- Section 3. Introduction . Music Lessons and Other Stories: Partial Inventory by Rishma Dunlop .- Section lãØ