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Soft Boundaries: Re-Visioning the Arts and Aesthetics in American Education
By Claire Detels
200 pages
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- Publisher:
- Bergin & Garvey
- Place of publication:
- Westport, CT
- Publication year:
- 1999
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Synopsis
American education in the arts and aesthetics has been harmed by the late 20th-century "hard-boundaried" approach, which overvalues specialization and discourages integrated, interdisciplinary approaches to understanding history, theory, and practice in all the arts. Detels analyzes this marginalization of the arts and aesthetics in American education and suggests that a widespread interdisciplinary integration of the arts is essential in order to provide students with necessary communication and ...
American education in the arts and aesthetics has been harmed by the late 20th-century "hard-boundaried" approach, which overvalues specialization and discourages integrated, interdisciplinary approaches to understanding history, theory, and practice in all the arts. Detels analyzes this marginalization of the arts and aesthetics in American education and suggests that a widespread interdisciplinary integration of the arts is essential in order to provide students with necessary communication and interpretation skills the future.
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Table of contents
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- Title Page iii
- Copyright Acknowledgments v
- Contents vii
- Preface ix
- Introduction 1
- Part I - The Boundaries of the Arts and Aesthetics 9
- 1 - Hard Times, Hard Boundaries 11
- 2 - History, Philosophy, and the Canons of the Arts 31
- 3 - Uses of History in Some Recent Aesthetic Writings 47
- Part II - Boundaries in Music 59
- 4 - Fragmentation in the Musical Field 61
- 5 - Soft Boundaries and Relatedness: A New Paradigm for Understanding Music 77
- 6 - Soft Boundaries, Autonomist/Formalist Aesthetics, and Music Theory 91
- Part III - Soft Boundaries and the Future 105
- 7 - Integrating History, Theory, and Practice in the College Music Curriculum 107
- 8 - Towards Integrative, Interdisciplinary Education in the Arts and Aesthetics 119
- Title Page iii
- Copyright Acknowledgments v
- Contents vii
- Preface ix
- Introduction 1
- Part I - The Boundaries of the Arts and Aesthetics 9
- 1 - Hard Times, Hard Boundaries 11
- 2 - History, Philosophy, and the Canons of the Arts 31
- 3 - Uses of History in Some Recent Aesthetic Writings 47
- Part II - Boundaries in Music 59
- 4 - Fragmentation in the Musical Field 61
- 5 - Soft Boundaries and Relatedness: A New Paradigm for Understanding Music 77
- 6 - Soft Boundaries, Autonomist/Formalist Aesthetics, and Music Theory 91
- Part III - Soft Boundaries and the Future 105
- 7 - Integrating History, Theory, and Practice in the College Music Curriculum 107
- 8 - Towards Integrative, Interdisciplinary Education in the Arts and Aesthetics 119
- 9 - Virtual Reality and Aesthetic Competence in the Twenty-First Century 135
- Notes 145
- Selected Bibliography 167
- Index 175
- About the Author *