Growing Songwriting

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Growing Songwriting is written by Associate Professor of Music Education Clint Randles and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0197693210 (ISBN 10) and 9780197693216 (ISBN 13).

The history of music education over the past 100 years has centered on traditional band, choir, and orchestra models. Yet music education has always secured a prominent place in the curriculum when it captures the musical imagination of the masses, and research has shown that more and more students are seeking alternative opportunities to engage with music. Songwriting is a 21st Century curricular offering that considers who we are as a society--our desires, our goals, our passions. Most often, songwriting occurs in Modern Band classes that are beginning to pop up all around North America and many parts of the world. This book provides curricular support for those efforts as we look to the present and future of music teaching and learning.