Popular musicians acquire some or all of their skills and knowledge informally, outside school or university, and with little help from trained instrumental teachers. How do they go about this process? Despite the fact that popular music has recently entered formal music education, we have as yet a limited understanding of the learning practices adopted by its musicians. Nor do we know why so many popular musicians in the past turned away from music education, or how young popular musicians today are responding to it.Drawing on a series of interviews with musicians aged between fifteen and fifty, Lucy Green explores the nature of pop musicians' informal learning practices, attitudes and values, the extent to which these altered over the last forty years, and the experiences of the musicians in formal music education. Through a comparison of the characteristics of informal pop music learning with those of more formal music education, the book offers insights into how we might reinvigorate the musical involvement of the population.

Author: Green, Lucy
Publisher: Ashgate Gower
Illustration: N
Language: ENG
Title: How Popular Musicians Learn: A Way Ahead for Music Education
Pages: 00250 (Encrypted PDF)
On Sale: 2002-07-04
SKU-13/ISBN: 9780754632269
Category: Music : Genres & Styles - Pop Vocal
Category: Music : Instruction & Study - General