Education, Music, and the Lives of Undergraduates: Collegiate A Cappella and the Pursuit of Happiness

Education, Music, and the Lives of Undergraduates: Collegiate A Cappella and the Pursuit of Happiness
ISBN-10
1350169226
ISBN-13
9781350169227
Category
Education
Pages
184
Language
English
Published
2020-12-24
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Authors
Roger Mantie, Brent C. Talbot

Description

The undergraduate years are a special time of life for many students. They are a time for study, yes, but also a time for making independent decisions over what to do beyond formal education. This book is based on a nine-year study of collegiate a cappella - a socio-musical practice that has exploded on college campuses since the 1990s. A defining feature of collegiate a cappella is that it is a student-run leisure activity undertaken by undergraduate students at institutions both large and small, prestigious and lower-status. With rare exceptions, participants are not music majors yet many participants interviewed had previous musical experience both in and out of school settings. Motivations for staying musically involved varied considerably - from those who felt they could not imagine life without a musical outlet to those who joined on a whim. Collegiate a cappella is about much more than singing cover songs. It sustains multiple forms of inequality through its audition practices and its performative enactment of gender and heteronormativity. This book sheds light on how undergraduates conceptualize vocation and avocation within the context of formal education, holding implications for educators at all levels.

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