Lucy Green, (born 1957) is an Emerita Professor of
Music Education
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at the
UCL Institute of Education
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, UK.
She had a key role in bringing the informal learning practices of popular and other
vernacular
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musicians to the attention of music-educators, thus transforming classroom practice.
[Jaffurs, S. E. (2004). ''The impact of informal music learning practices in the classroom, or how I learned how to teach from a garage band''. International Journal of Music Education, Vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 189 –200.]
Biography
Professor Green studied music and education at
Homerton College
Homerton College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Its first premises were acquired in Homerton, London in 1768, by an informal gathering of Protestant dissenters with origins in the seventeenth century. In 1894, the co ...
,
University of Cambridge
, mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts.
Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge.
, established =
, other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...
; then taking a Masters in Music and a Doctorate in Music Education at
Sussex University
, mottoeng = Be Still and Know
, established =
, type = Public research university
, endowment = £14.4 million (2020)
, budget = £319.6 million (2019–20)
, chancellor = Sanjeev Bhaskar
, vice_chancellor = Sasha Roseneil
, ...
. She taught the piano during her post-graduate studies and became a school music teacher and Head of Music in secondary education. She joined the
Institute of Education
IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society (IOE) is the education school of University College London (UCL). It specialises in postgraduate study and research in the field of education and is one of UCL's 11 constituent faculties. Prior to m ...
(now part of
University College London
, mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward
, established =
, type = Public research university
, endowment = £143 million (2020)
, budget = ...
) in 1990, where she taught on initial teacher education courses, masters and doctoral degrees. She has been Professor of Music Education there since 2004.
Professor Green joined ''Isleworth Baroque'' (now
Richmond Opera
Richmond Opera is an opera company based in Richmond, London in the UK. Originally founded as Isleworth Baroque in 2004, Richmond Opera performs a fully-staged opera each year at the Normansfield Theatre in Teddington, along with concerts, s ...
) in 2009, initially as a singer and later producing and directing several productions.
Professional work
Professor Green's study of how popular musicians learn, and her initial ideas for how their learning practices can be translated into formal music education has been described as a watershed in music education. Building on this work, Professor Green led the Informal Learning Pathfinder of the UK project,
Musical Futures
Musical Futures is a not-for-profit music education program, pedagogy and resource platform built for teachers, children and youths. It was started in the United Kingdom in 2003 by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and is now an internationally recognised ...
which took central characteristics of informal music learning methods and adapted them to classroom environments. This change in teaching approaches resulted in a rise in student motivation.
[Hallam S, Creech A, Sandford C, Rinta T and Shave K (2008). ''Survey of Musical Futures: A Report from Institute of Education University of London''. Paul Hamlyn Foundation.][Jeanneret N, McLennan R and Stevens-Ballenger J (2011). ''Musical Futures: An Australian Perspective: Findings from a Victorian Pilot Study''. University of Melbourne.][Wright, R (2011). ''Musical Futures: a new approach to music education''. Canadian Music Educator, Vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 19–21.] Subsequently, she developed similar pedagogies for the specialist instrumental lesson. In 2016 Musical Futures was placed in the Top 100 Global Educational Innovations by the Finnish organisation ‘HundrED’.
Professor Green's work is used in schools and teacher-training programmes in the UK,
USA,
Canada,
Australia,
Singapore, Brazil, Cyprus and elsewhere. Her work has also been influential in other areas of the sociology of music education, particularly concerning gender, musical meaning and ideology, and
popular music pedagogy
Popular music pedagogy — alternatively called popular music education, rock music pedagogy, or rock music education — is a development in music education consisting of the systematic teaching and learning of popular music both inside and outsi ...
. Professor Green has more recently co-authored with Dr David Baker the results of research into the lives and learning of blind and partially-sighted musicians. Her publications have been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian, Greek, Swedish, Dutch, and Chinese.
Awards and honours
Honorary Doctorate for Services to Music Education,
University of Hedmark, Norway in 2014.
On 22 July 2022, Green was elected a
Fellow of the British Academy
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# Fellows – scholars resident in the United Kingdom
# C ...
(FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.
Bibliography
*2017, (co-authored with David Baker), ''Insights in Sound: Visually Impaired Musicians’ Lives and Learning'', London and New York: Routledge
*2011, (editor) ''Learning, Teaching and Musical Identity: Voices Across Cultures'', Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
*2008, ''Music Education as Critical Theory and Practice: Selected Essays'', London and Burlington, VT:Ashgate Contemporary Thinkers on Critical Musicology Series
*2008, ''Music, Informal Learning and the School: A New Classroom Pedagogy'', London and New York: Ashgate Press
*2001/02, ''How Popular Musicians Learn: A Way Ahead For Music Education'', London and New York: Ashgate Press (238 pp); (hardback); issued in 2002 as paperback; re-printed 2003, 2005, 2008
*1997, ''Music, Gender, Education'', Cambridge University Press (282 pp), re-printed 2001, 2004, 2007
:2001, published in Spanish as ''Musica, Género y Educación'', Ediciones Morata,
*1988/2008, ''Music on Deaf Ears: Musical Meaning, Ideology and Education'', Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press (165 pp), (hb); re-printed as paperback, 1990; 2008,
:published in a revised second edition: Bury St. Edmunds: Abramis Publishing
References
External links
The Musical Futures websiteMusical Futures videoclip - Teaching in UK schoolsMusical Futures videoclip - Modelling aural learning with popular musicUCL Institute of Education video - A conversation with Lucy Green, Professor of Music Education
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British music educators
Alumni of the University of Sussex
Living people
1957 births
Alumni of Homerton College, Cambridge
Fellows of the British Academy