Melodies in Growth

Music education faces the challenge of integrally educating new generations, connecting learning with its sociocultural context and promoting an active and transformative participation. This book provides essential theoretical and methodological elements to advance towards this longed-for purpose, through a research that highlights the need to incorporate contemporary music production in the training of music teachers. It is convincingly argued that the contextualized integration of contemporary music into the continuous training of teachers would dynamize their performance and contribute to a situated cultural development in students. It also presents a viable methodological proposal to capitalize on the formative value of contemporary musical expressions. Written in a clear style and accessible language, this book is very useful for teachers, directors, researchers and students in the musical field interested in promoting qualitative changes. It provides categories, approaches and practical guidelines that facilitate progress towards an innovative, situated and transformative music education.