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Soft boundaries : re-visioning the arts and aesthetics in American education
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Soft boundaries : re-visioning the arts and aesthetics in American education

Author: Claire Janice Detels; Ralph Alexander Smith
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 1999.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Illustrates how American education has marginalized the arts and separated them into unconnected disciplines. The author argues for more integration of the arts into the curriculum, and a greater  Read more...

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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Claire Janice Detels; Ralph Alexander Smith
ISBN: 0897896661 9780897896665
OCLC Number: 41026428
Description: xi, 181 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Pt. I. The Boundaries of the Arts and Aesthetics. 1. Hard Times, Hard Boundaries. 2. History, Philosophy, and the Canons of the Arts. 3. Uses of History in Some Recent Aesthetic Writings --
Pt. II. Boundaries in Music. 4. Fragmentation in the Musical Field. 5. Soft Boundaries and Relatedness: A New Paradigm for Understanding Music. 6. Soft Boundaries, Autonomist/Formalist Aesthetics, and Music Theory --
Pt. III. Soft Boundaries and the Future. 7. Integrating History, Theory, and Practice in the College Music Curriculum. 8. Towards Integrative, Interdisciplinary Education in the Arts and Aesthetics. 9. Virtual Reality and Aesthetic Competence in the Twenty-First Century.
Other Titles: Re-visioning the arts and aesthetics in American education
Responsibility: Claire Detels ; Ralph A. Smith, advisory editor.

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