Creative Music Making at Your Fingertips: A Mobile Technology Guide for Music Educators, Paperback

Students are drawn to mobile technologies such as iPads and smartphones because of the sheer endless possibilities of the digital worlds they hold. But how can their potential for stimulating the imagination be effectively used in the music classroom to support students' development of musical
thinking? Countering voices that see digital technologies as a threat to traditional forms of music making and music education, this collection explores the many ways in which hand-held devices can be used to promote student learning and provides teachers with guidance on making them a vital
presence in their own classrooms.

Creative Music Making at Your Fingertips features 11 chapters by music education scholars and practitioners that provide tried-and-true strategies for using mobile devices in a variety of contexts, from general music education to ensembles and from K-12 to college classrooms. Drawing on their own
experiences with bringing mobile devices and different music apps into the classroom, contributors show how these technologies can be turned into tools for teaching performance, improvisation, and composition. Their practical advice on how pedagogy and mobile technologies can be aligned to increase
students' creative engagement with music and help them realize their musical potential makes this book an invaluable resource for music educators who want to be at the forefront of pedagogical transformations made possible by 21st-century technologies.

About author(s):
Gena R. Greher is Professor of Music Education and Chair of Music at University of Massachusetts Lowell. She is the co-author of Computational Thinking in Sound: Teaching the Art and Science of Music and Technology (OUP, 2014).

Suzanne L. Burton is Professor of Music Education and Associate Dean for the Arts at the University of Delaware. She is the co-author of Ready, Set, Improvise! A Nuts and Bolts Approach to Music Improvisation (OUP, 2018) and the lead editor of and contributor to the Engaging Musical Practice
Sourcebook series.