PreViews
The cover will feature artwork from Indigenous artist Vincent Serico and supported by The CRC for Interaction Design (ACID)
Navigating Music and Sound Education
Available February 2010
Volume 2 of the meaningful music making for life series is being edited by:
Dr Julie Ballantyne 
Dr Brydie-Leigh Bartleet.
Interview with Editors Early 2010.
The book will feature eminent music educators from around the world and focus on navigating context.
An interview with Dr Ballantyne & Bartleet will be posted here in Mid 2009 and details of the chapters and authors will be outlined.
This edited collection is aimed at pre-service teachers who want to explore varied philosophical and practical approaches to classroom music education through the eyes of philosophers and music education practitioners. Readers will be challenged to formulate their own approach to music education, and position themselves amongst leading academics in the field. Authors include: Deborah Blair and Jackie Wiggins (problem-based learning), Stephanie Pitts (community-based learning), Natassa Stavrou and Smaragda Chrysostomou (integrated learning), Scott Harrison (gender issues in music education), Anja Tait (music education in indigenous communities), Steve Dillon (technology-based learning), Pamela Burnard (creativity in the Primary and Secondary school), Peter deVries (lifelong learning), Lucy Green (popular music in the classroom), and Huib Schippers and Melissa Cain (cultural diversity in music education).
About the editors
Dr Julie Ballantyne has taught classroom music to students at both Primary and Secondary levels. She completed her PhD in music teacher education in 2005 and is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Music Education. She was the principal investigator on the recent 2006 Carrick Institute Competitive Grant, ‘Bridging gaps in music teacher education: developing exemplary practice models using peer collaboration.’ She has published in the areas of identities of early-career music teacher, comparisons between early-career and pre-service music teachers’ perceptions of course effectiveness, trends in teacher education, and philosophical allegiances of early-career music teachers and subject choice of secondary school students.
Dr Brydie-Leigh Bartleet is a Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre Griffith University, where she is working on the ARC funded project, ‘Sound Links: Exploring the dynamics of musical communities in Australia and their potential for informing collaboration with music in schools’. She has worked as a Lecturer at the University of Queensland, and as a freelance conductor has worked with ensembles from Australia, Thailand, Singapore and Taiwan. She has published widely on issues relating to community music, women conductors, peer-learning in conducting and feminist pedagogy, and is currently editing two books on music research and autoethnography. She is also on the editorial board for the International Journal of Community Music.
Wally on the Window: Shuffle me
I love this Elvis like Rockabilly track with great pedal Steel playing and a mean Shuffle rhythm with the Sewer pipe reverb.
Troubling Empowerment: A feminist critique of a rural women and communication technology project
Participatory research methodologies and interactive communication technologies (ICTs) are increasingly seen as offering ways of enhancing women¿s empowerment and rural community development. However, some researchers suggest the need for caution about such claims. This book details findings from an evaluation of a feminist action research project that explored the impacts of ICTs for rural women in Queensland, Australia, in terms of personal, business and community development. Using praxis and poststructuralist feminist theories and methodologies, this innovative study presents a rigorous analysis and critique of women’s empowerment and participation. This study demonstrates the value of adopting a critical yet pragmatic approach that takes diversity and difference, power-knowledge relations, and the contradictory effects of participation into account. This is argued to enable the development of more effective strategies for women¿s empowerment, participation and inclusion. This book should be of particular interest to researchers, postgraduate students, and others working in the fields of communication, gender, and rural development, and feminist evaluation and ethnography.
About the Author
Dr June Lennie is a Senior Research Associate at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. She has significant expertise in conducting action research and evaluation projects and evaluation capacity building, and has published widely in her field. She is the co-author of Action Research and New Media (Hampton Press, 2009).
Musical Islands: Exploring Connections between Music, Place and Research
Editors: Elizabeth Mackinlay, Brydie-Leigh Bartleet and Katelyn Barney
Date Of Publication: Jun 2009
Isbn13: 978-1-4438-0956-6
Isbn: 1-4438-0956-X
The island is a powerful metaphor in everyday speech which extends almost naturally into several academic disciplines, including musicology. Islands are imagined as isolated and unique places where strange, exotic, different and unexpected treasures can be found by daring adventurers. The magic inherent within this positioning of islands as places of discovery is an aspect which permeates the theoretical, methodological and analytical boundaries of this edited book. Showcasing the breadth of current musicological research in Australia and New Zealand, this edited collection offers a range of subtle and innovative reflections on this concept both in established and well-charted territories of music research.