Growing Songwriting

Abstract

Abstract Growing Songwriting builds on the work of professional songwriters, songwriting professors, scholars in songwriting, and on the professional discourse in music education to provide a pedagogical starting place for the teaching of songwriting in school classrooms and community centers. Creative processes centered on writing songs are divided into three separate but related activity areas: Covering, the Middle Ground, and Songwriting. Within each of these areas are provided lesson “seed” starting places for developing lessons, “water” in the form of stories of how songwriters have written some of the most enduring songs, and “sunlight” as represented by inspiration for continuing and extending creative practices. By adopting a growth metaphor in pedagogical practice, this book aims to help grow songwriting as a curricular offering.

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