This well researched volume tells the story of music education in Japan and of the wind band contest organized by the All-Japan Band Association. Identified here for the first time as the world’s largest musical competition, it attracts 14,000 bands and well over 500,000 competitors. The book’s insightful contribution to our understanding of both music and education chronicles music learning in Japanese schools and communities. It examines the contest from a range of perspectives, includin...

Music has long played a prominent role in cultural diplomacy, but until now no resource has comparatively examined policies that shape how non-western countries use music for international relations. Ethnomusicology and Cultural Diplomacy, edited by scholars David G. Hebert and Jonathan McCollum, demonstrates music's role in international relations worldwide. Specifically, this book offers "insider" views from expert contributors writing about music as a part of cultural diplomacy initiati...

This book outlines a philosophy of music education that is responsive to the age of artificial intelligence. Against the background of AI's challenges to human modes of production, the authors demonstrate how music education can become a tool for selfdiscovery in this transformative era. Taking the approach of a dialogue between Chinese and Western perspectives, the book addresses the relationships between the social functions of music education and individual development in different hist...

This Element demonstrates how a combination of stimulated recall and collaborative autoethnographic strategies can be applied to artistic and scholarly work at the intersection of ethnomusicology and practice-led-research. The authors relate recently collected material from fieldwork in Vietnam to the long-term method development within the Vietnamese/Swedish group The Six Tones, of which three authors are the founding members. The discussion centers around the inter-subjective forms of st...

Historical ethnomusicology is increasingly acknowledged as a significant emerging subfield of ethnomusicology due to the fact that historical research requires a different set of theories and methods than studies of contemporary practices and many historiographic techniques are rapidly transforming as a result of new technologies. In 2005, Bruno Nettl observed that “the term ‘historical ethnomusicology’ has begun to appear in programs of conferences and in publications” (Nettl 2005, 274), ...

World Music Pedagogy, Volume VII: Teaching World Music in Higher Education addresses a pedagogical pathway of varied strategies for teaching world music in higher education, offering concrete means for diversifying undergraduate studies through world music culture courses. While the first six volumes in this series have detailed theoretical and applied principles of World Music Pedagogy within K-12 public schools and broader communities, this seventh volume is chiefly concerned wi...

In Gwinnett County’s two hundred years, the area has been western, southern, rural, suburban, and now increasingly urban. Its stories include the displacement of Native peoples, white settlement, legal battles over Indian Removal, slavery and cotton, the Civil War and the Lost Cause, New South railroad and town development, Reconstruction and Jim Crow, business development and finance in a national economy, a Populist uprising and Black outmigration, the entrance of women into the politica...

Who Watered Down Baptism? challenges one of the most widely accepted assumptions in modern Christianity—that baptism is optional, merely symbolic, or secondary to salvation.Drawing directly from Scripture, Ryan Hebert demonstrates that baptism is inseparably connected to the gospel itself: death, burial, and resurrection with Christ. From the preaching of John the Baptist to the words of Jesus, to the consistent practice of the early church, baptism is never presen...

Shakespeare’s plays explore a staggering range of political topics, from the nature of tyranny, to the practical effects of Christianity on politics and the family, to the meaning and practice of statesmanship. From great statesmen like Burke and Lincoln to the American frontiersman sitting by his rustic fire, those wrestling with the problems of the human soul and its confrontation with a puzzling world of political peril and promise have long considered these plays a source of political ...

What do these mean to you?Soon and Very Soon serves you the wonderful truths of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ without confusion. Making simple what can seem complicated, Dr. David Hebert’s exploration of Bible truths will lift your heart as you look forward to Jesus’ return as a key dimension of the “perfect complete Gospel of both comings of Jesus Christ.”The fruit of decades of prayerful study, Soon and Very Soon unfolds these truths in the ...

O Financeiramente revela um caminho que precisa ser seguido por todos aqueles que têm o desejo ardente de crescer em mentalidade, conhecimento econômico e estratégico no universo financeiro para alcançar resultados exponenciais de riqueza e felicidade. São 28 passos desenvolvidos por 28 homens e mulheres que atuam nesse mercado e na área de comportamento humano. Você poderá se conectar e aprender com cada um deles em uma verdadeira imersão que irá transformar sua vida, financeiramente fala...

Faze-me ouvir, pela manhã, da tua graça, pois em ti confio; mostra-me o caminho por onde devo andar; porque a ti elevo a minha alma. – Salmo 143:8 Quando nos colocamos diante de Deus em oração para saber qual o próximo passo em nosso caminhar, Ele nos revela. Por esta razão, o momento a sós com o Senhor é muito importante. No dia a dia, os desafios, as circunstâncias, o nosso humor e sentimentos podem mudar, mas o cuidado e o amor do Pai são imutáveis! As mensagens escritas pelos autores d...