Routledge New Directions in Music Education Series
About the Book Series
The Routledge New Directions in Music Education Series consists of concise monographs that attempt to bring more of the wide world of music, education, and society into the discourse in music education.
Music Education through the Lens of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Crisis and Crossroads
1st Edition
Edited
By Clint Randles
May 13, 2026
A compelling exploration of how music education adapted during COVID-19, Music Education Through the Lens of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Crisis and Crossroads reveals the challenges, innovations, and lasting shifts that are shaping the future of teaching and learning music. Music Education Through the ...
Becoming a YouTube Musician: How People Learn, Create, and Connect Online
1st Edition
By Christopher Cayari
July 28, 2025
As the most-visited social media site on the internet, the video-sharing platform YouTube has become a highly influential space for musicmaking and learning. Becoming a YouTube Musician: How People Learn, Create, and Connect Online explores how YouTube creators and viewers are using digital video ...
Flourishing in Music Education: Lessons from Positive Psychology
1st Edition
By H. Christian Bernhard II
October 09, 2024
Flourishing in Music Education: Lessons from Positive Psychology presents research, theory, and best practices about potential pitfalls, as well as strategies for how successful music teachers can negotiate issues in the wake of the COVID-19 climate, both on a daily and long-term basis. Masked and...
Meanings of Music Participation: Scenarios from the United States
1st Edition
Edited
By C. Victor Fung, Lisa J. Lehmberg
October 08, 2024
This book uncovers the multifaceted nature of music participation through a collection of studies in a wide variety of musical contexts across the United States. The contributors combine personal voices and vivid narratives with scholarship to present many potential meanings of music participation,...
Music Lessons for a Living Planet: Ecomusicology for Young People
1st Edition
By Daniel Shevock, Vincent C. Bates
August 16, 2024
This volume shows music educators how music teaching and learning can help address humanity’s greatest challenge—the ecological crisis. It provides the essential background knowledge in ecomusicology, from compositions about nature, soundscape experiences, activist songs, to practical lesson ideas....
Holistic Musical Thinking: A Pedagogical Model for Hands-On and Heart-Felt Musical Engagement: Routledge New Directions in Music Education Series
1st Edition
By Daniel C. Johnson
August 06, 2024
Holistic Musical Thinking presents a comprehensive view of how people engage with music from a hands-on and heart-felt perspective. This approach embraces the teaching and learning processes as a multi-dimensional amalgamation of knowing, doing, and feeling through musical experiences. The result ...
Managing Stress in Music Education: Routes to Wellness and Vitality
1st Edition
By H. Christian Ii, Bernhard
May 06, 2022
Managing Stress in Music Education presents research, theory, possible pitfalls, and strategies for music teachers looking to navigate the challenging climate of potential stressors. Covering a wide range of topics such as sleep, physical movement, nutrition, happiness, gratitude, and mindfulness,...
A Different Paradigm in Music Education: Re-examining the Profession
1st Edition
By David A Williams
December 13, 2021
A Different Paradigm in Music Education is a "let’s consider some possibilities" book. Instead of a music methods book, it is a look at where the music education profession is and how music teachers might improve what it is we do. It is about change. It is about questioning the current music ...
Eudaimonia: Perspectives for Music Learning
1st Edition
Edited
By Gareth Dylan Smith, Marissa Silverman
December 13, 2021
Eudaimonia: Perspectives for Music Learning asserts the fertile applications of eudaimonia—an Aristotelian concept of human flourishing intended to explain the nature of a life well lived—for work in music learning and teaching in the 21st century. Drawing insights from within and beyond the field ...
Eco-Literate Music Pedagogy
1st Edition
By Daniel Shevock
June 30, 2020
Eco-Literate Music Pedagogy examines the capacity of musiciking to cultivate ecological literacy, approaching eco-literate music pedagogy through philosophical and autoethnographical lenses. Building on the principle that music contributes uniquely to human ecological thinking, this volume tracks ...
The Music Learning Profiles Project: Let's Take This Outside
1st Edition
By Radio Cremata, Joseph Pignato, Bryan Powell, Gareth Dylan Smith
June 30, 2020
The Music Learning Profiles Project: Let’s Take This Outside uses ethnographic techniques and modified case studies to profile musicians active in a wide range of musical contexts not typically found in traditional music education settings. The book illuminates diverse music learning practices in ...