ABSTRACT

Listening Across Borders: Musicology in the Global Classroom provides readers with the tools and techniques for integrating a global approach to music history—within the framework of the roots, challenges, and benefits of internationalization—into the modern music curriculum. Contributors from around the world offer strategies for empowering students to critique the economic, ideological, and political structures that propagate global challenges. Applicable in a variety of classroom settings, the internationalized teaching methods collected here suggest fruitful ways forward in a global age, in three parts:

  • Creating Global Citizens
  • Teaching with Case Studies of Intercultural Encounters
  • Challenges and Opportunities

In reevaluating the role of higher education in a cosmopolitan world, modern educators have come to question the limits of geographically defined canons, traditional curricular content, and other longstanding teaching approaches. Listening Across Borders places the music history classroom at the center of the conversation about internationalization in higher education, embracing pedagogies that develop the skillsets to become global citizens in a world where international cooperation is increasingly essential.

chapter |7 pages

Introduction

Why Internationalization?

part I|42 pages

Creating Global Citizens

part II|50 pages

Teaching with Case Studies of Intercultural Encounters

chapter 4|12 pages

Teaching Global Music History

Comparative Approaches in Chinese Historiography

chapter 6|16 pages

Learning from Bartók

The Promises and Perils of a Globalized Music History

part III|64 pages

Challenges and Opportunities

chapter 7|17 pages

Global Musicology in the Transnational Classroom

A View from South India

chapter 8|19 pages

Teaching and Learning Music History in Brazil

History, Challenges, and Proposals

chapter 9|12 pages

Teaching Western Music in Jordan

An Anglicized-Russian Female Music Educator Perspective