Education, Music, and the Lives of Undergraduates
Subtitle: Collegiate a Cappella and the Pursuit of Happiness
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781350169227
Description: "This book is based on a nine-year study of collegiate a cappella, a socio-musical practice that has exploded on college campuses since the 1990's. Collegiate a cappella is about much more than singing cover songs. It sustains multiple forms of inequality through its practices and performative enactment of gender and heteronormativity. This book sheds light on how undergraduates conceptualize vocation and avocation within the context of formal education, holding implications for educators at all levels"--