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Taking a leaf from "Giant Steps": A small step towards future readiness
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Type
Book chapter
Citation
Chong, E. (2022). Taking a leaf from "Giant Steps": A small step towards future readiness. In C. Randles & P. Burnard (Eds.), The Routledge companion to creativities in music education (pp. 376-388). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003248194-37
Abstract
The havoc wrecked by the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown up both practical and fundamental questions across societies around the world. In the musical world, as musicians struggle with their daily living and career amidst the still precarious and uncertain situation, music educators need to think ahead of what it means to educate the next generation of musicians that needs to be ready not only for the more immediate post-pandemic new normals, but also to be future-proofed against similar, perhaps unimaginable, disruptions in the more distant future. This chapter attempts a modest step towards identifying some salient lessons by first examining Coltrane’s creative career with a focus on his legendary work “Giant Steps”. For a broader purview, a Second Life musician and a virtual choir conductor are zoomed in to then springboard us into the wider world of the digital musician. Insights are presented against Sardar and Sweeney’s futurist framework in the backdrop.
Date Issued
2022
ISBN
9781003248194 (online)
Publisher
Routledge
DOI
10.4324/9781003248194-37