Spirituality and Music Education

CONTENTS: June Boyce-Tillman: Shovelling Fog: Introducing Spirituality - Liesl van der Merwe/John Habron: A Conceptual Model of Spirituality in Music Education - Marie McCarthy: Awakening to the Spiritual in Children's Development: Contemplating Anew the Landscapes of Music Education - Matthew Sansom: Under the Aspect of Eternity: A Perennialist Interpretation of Free Improvisational Aesthetics and Pedagogy - Susan Quindag: Seeking Oneness: Exploring a Relational Ontology of Spiritual Music - Frank Heuser: Music Education and Spirituality: Ethical Concerns and Responsibilities from a US Perspective - Anchen Froneman: Embodiment as Locus of Aesthetic and Spiritual Musical Experience - Gerda Pretorius: Spirituality in Parent-Infant Musical Communication: An Integrative Literature Review - Hetta Potgieter: «The Cathedral without a Roof»: A Search for Metaphorical Meaning - Grant Nthala: The Melting Pot of Cultural and Religious Boundaries: Expressions of Spirituality and Musicality at a Malawian HIV/AIDS Support Group - Eurika Jansen van Vuuren: Arts Championships: Nurturing Spiritual Musical Experiences or Cultivating Heartless Performance? - Phiwe Ndodana Makaula: The Manifestation of the Philosophy of Ubuntu on Bhaca Music and Social Structure - Arvydas Girdzijauskas: Different Signs of Spirituality Following Different Types of Music Education - Diana Harris: Music in its Cultural Context: The Importance of Understanding the Spiritual Significance of the Music We Teach.

June Boyce-Tillman MBE read music at the University of Oxford and is Professor of Applied Music at the University of Winchester. She taught for twenty-five years in London schools and then in higher education. She has published widely on music, with several books on spirituality and music as well as music education. Her doctoral research into children's musical development has been translated into five languages. She lectures internationally, recently in Nepal, the US and South Africa. She is concerned with dialogue through music and radical musical inclusion, composing large-scale works for cathedrals such as Winchester and Southwark involving professional musicians, community choirs, children with disabilities and school children. She founded the Centre for the Arts as Wellbeing and the Tavener Centre for Music and Spirituality. She is an Extra-ordinary Professor at North West University, South Africa. She is an Anglican priest and an honorary chaplain at Winchester Cathedral.

Dr June Boyce-Tillman is a pioneer. It is due to her inspiration and boundless energies that an important new and ground-breaking compendium has been assembled. This rich and diverse collection of contributions eloquently challenges the long-held opinion that there are some issues about which we cannot speak. The articles cross cultural boundaries and provide ample and carefully researched evidence of both theory and practice, presented in approachable language, and opening new avenues of enquiry to enrich music education. - GEORGE ODAM, Emeritus Professor Bath Spa University, Fellow of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama