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A 'Must Read' for Musicians and Music Educators | The Music Teaching Artist's Bible: Becoming a Virtuoso Educator | Eric Booth

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	• The Music Teaching Artist's Bible: Becoming a Virtuoso Educator Eric Booth Oxford University Press, USA, 2009 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 4 reviews view larger image
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A Profoundly Useful Book

As a music teaching artist and teacher, I can't say enough good things about this long overdue work. If I had to choose one word to describe it, I think I would go with "useful"--to working and aspiring music teaching artists certainly, but also to educators in all fields, musicians seeking insight into a contemporary approach to pedagogy, and even to non-experts who are interested in exploring how the arts and learning intersect and interact.

This range of potential readers gives one some idea of how synthetic, comprehensive this book is. Booth succeeds in applying and referencing theory while always remaining concrete and accessible; he is highly practical without oversimplification; his work offers deep guidance and yet remains open-ended and thought-provoking. This is both a book about professional practice, and a deep work on pedagogy in our contemporary context, one with far-reaching implications. It can serve as a reference, as a blueprint, as a textbook, and as an inspiration. And...it's really entertaining and personable.

I don't want to go on too much, so I'll just mention two more things I particularly appreciate about this book. The first is the way it effortlessly dissolves the false but commonly posed opposition between "conventional" and "new" music pedagogy. Booth brings to bear a certain rigor in both his knowledge of music performance and of teaching artistry that enables him to span a wide range of techniques and issues and bring together old and new approaches to old and new problems in teaching music and extending musical experience, all the while providing a variety of organizing principles that are at once musical and progressive.

The second thing that struck me is that, amidst the great wealth of practical advice and pedagogical structure, Booth communicates a great sensitivity to the ART of teaching and a recognition of the teaching artist as an individual. From the outset he stresses the importance of bringing YOU to bear in the work, and explains and shows in many ways that teaching artistry is not an abstraction, it is artists teaching. In this day of increasingly rigid, teacher and student suffocating algorithmic curricula, recognition of this fact alone is potentially liberating. This book takes that simple recognition and provides many maps of how to make it real.

Buy and read this book.

Nick Jaffe
Chief Editor, The Teaching Artist Journal

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an essential resource for all teaching artists

The Music Teaching Artist's Bible is an inspirational, practical, and unsentimental resource. It has relevance for teaching artists of all disciplines (not just music) and at all levels of teaching expertise. As a professional developer and teaching artist myself, I am taken with the clarity of language and the specificity of information in Mr. Booth's book. The Music Teaching Artist's Bible emphasizes listening: to students, educational partners, audience responses and works of art, and reflecting and revising based upon what we hear and learn. I am thrilled to have this comprehensive source for the essential ideas of teaching artist practice. I know I will refer to it all the time.

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A 'Must Read' for Musicians and Music Educators

The Music Teaching Artists Bible is a must read for music professionals, novices, and virtually anyone involved in music and arts education. To be more globally competitive and to develop better citizens we need high quality programs in our schools. Eric Booth definitely 'gets it' as he walks the reader through a series of steps we can take to improve our children's education and enrich all of our arts experiences.

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Essential for Teaching Artists and Arts In Education Practitioners

There is little in the Arts In Education field that directly and practically addresses Teaching Artists and the work we do in education. Eric Booth combines his experience, insight, and commitment to the arts in education to establish a revitalized foundation.

Dale Davis
Executive Director, The Association of Teaching Artists

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When the artist moves into the classroom or community to educate and inspire students and audience members, this is Teaching Artistry. It is a proven means for practicing professional musicians to create a successful career in music, providing not only necessary income but deep and lasting satisfaction through engaging people in learning experiences about the arts. Filled with practical advice on the most critical issues facing the music teaching artist today--from economic and time-management issues of being a musician and teacher to communicating effectively with students--The Music Teaching Artist's Bible uncovers the essentials that every musician needs in order to thrive in this role. Author Eric Booth offers both inspiration and how-to, step-by-step guidance in this truly comprehensive manual that music teaching artists will turn to again and again. The book also includes critical information on becoming a mentor, succeeding in school environments, partnering with other teaching artists, advocating for music and arts education, and teaching private lessons.

The Music Teaching Artist's Bible helps practicing and aspiring teaching artists gain the skills they need to build new audiences, improve the presence of music in schools, expand the possibilities of traditional and educational performances, and ultimately make their lives as an artists even more satisfying and fulfilling.

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