Radically Responsive Music Schools

Leading Change through Culture-Building

Brian Pertl (Lawrence University, USA)

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Routledge
04 November 2024

Techniques of music & music tutorials; Higher & further education, tertiary education; Teaching of a specific subject

Series: CMS Emerging Fields in Music

Radically Responsive Music Schools is a philosophical reimagining of music higher education culture from the ground up, arguing that holistic cultural change is the key factor needed for music schools to prepare 21st-century graduates for contemporary challenges.

The author discusses how university and conservatory music programs can incorporate traits they seek to foster in their students – creativity, innovation, improvisation, and entrepreneurial thinking – into the institutions themselves. Through Deep Listening exercises, thought experiments, and other activities, Pertl provides detailed scaffolding for creating music school cultures of belonging and collaboration, wellbeing and intention, curiosity and wonder, creativity and improvisation, and playfulness and joy. Unpacking the complexities of transforming institutional culture, this book envisions the modern school of music as agile, collaborative, and socially aware and outlines pathways for leaders to realize this vision.

Radically Responsive Music Schools is an essential resource for college-level music education administrators, professors, students, or staff members interested in how institutional culture can act as a catalyst for radical change in music programs.

By: Brian Pertl (Lawrence University USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
ISBN: 9781032131986
ISBN 10: 1032131985
Series: CMS Emerging Fields in Music
Pages: 108
Publication Date: 04 November 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

1. An Urgent Need for a Culture of Change 2. A Culture of Belonging and Collaboration 3. A Culture of Wellbeing and Intention 4. A Culture of Curiosity and Wonder 5. A Culture of Creativity and Improvisation 6. A Culture of Playfulness and Joy 7. A Culture of Change Maximization 8. Field of Dreams

Brian Pertl is a deep listener, ethnomusicologist, collaborator, improviser, visionary leader, and Dean of the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music.