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A study of adults' attitudes, perceptions and reflections on their singing experience in secondary school: some implications for music education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2002

Colin Durrant
Affiliation:
cd154@umail.umd.edu

Abstract

Despite pockets of excellence, singing in British secondary schools is not only weak but in a state of continuing decline. The unpopularity of singing is well documented but the reasons for that unpopularity are less certain. Through interviewing adults between the ages of 20 and 40 about their school days, the authors located the principal sources of most people's unease with singing, and also the seat of pleasure among those who enjoyed it. Some differences between age groups and the sexes emerged through the study. Unexpectedly, all interviewees were united in the view that singing should be retained as a worthwhile element of the secondary school curriculum.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
2002 Cambridge University Press

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