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Hvor En Var Baen: Places of Childhood (2024)
Book Chapter
Medboe, H. (2025). Hvor En Var Baen: Places of Childhood. In Jazz and Literature: An Introduction (103-110). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003288275-16

This chapter explores musical responses to a selection of poems written by Martin Nikolaj Hansen in the first half of the twentieth century. His verse is steeped in the bucolic imagery of his surroundings on the small island of Als that lies off Denm... Read More about Hvor En Var Baen: Places of Childhood.

From Music Higher Education to the Festival Stage: Questioning the Neoliberal Environments of Scottish Jazz (2024)
Book Chapter
Raine, S., & Medbøe, H. (2024). From Music Higher Education to the Festival Stage: Questioning the Neoliberal Environments of Scottish Jazz. In R. Prokop, & R. Reitsamer (Eds.), Higher Music Education and Employability in a Neoliberal World. Bloomsbury Publishing

As evidenced from the festival stage and behind the scenes (Raine, 2020), the UK jazz scene continues to be male-dominated and middle-class (Umney and Kretsos, 2015; Umney, 2016). Drawing upon interviews and focus groups with jazz musicians, educator... Read More about From Music Higher Education to the Festival Stage: Questioning the Neoliberal Environments of Scottish Jazz.

Hip-hop in Scotland: a footnote in the history of popular music? (2023)
Book Chapter
Hook, D. (2023). Hip-hop in Scotland: a footnote in the history of popular music?. In S. Frith, M. Cloonan, & J. Williamson (Eds.), Made in Scotland: Studies in popular music. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003247470-15

This chapter explores Scottish hip-hop’s contribution to Scotland’s musical, lyrical and cultural identity. Simultaneously global and local, hip-hop creates opportunities to witness the hybridisation of local culture with new global perspectives and... Read More about Hip-hop in Scotland: a footnote in the history of popular music?.

Activating and Developing Free Improvisational Creativities in Higher Education: Contesting Authority, Exploring Creativities, Stimulating Dialogue (2022)
Book Chapter
Atton, C., Cowan, M., Docherty, H., Farnish, K., Moir, Z., & Pattie, E. (2022). Activating and Developing Free Improvisational Creativities in Higher Education: Contesting Authority, Exploring Creativities, Stimulating Dialogue. In C. Randles, & P. Burnard (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Creativities in Music Education. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003248194-35

This chapter explores the concept of improvisational creativities in higher education and the ways in which such an approach to music education is beneficial. We report on a collaborative autoethnography, conducted by the authors, in which we explore... Read More about Activating and Developing Free Improvisational Creativities in Higher Education: Contesting Authority, Exploring Creativities, Stimulating Dialogue.

A Good Pair of Ears: Conceiving of and developing aural skills in popular music education (2021)
Book Chapter
Stillie, B., & Moir, Z. (2021). A Good Pair of Ears: Conceiving of and developing aural skills in popular music education. In K. D. Cleland, & P. Fleet (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Aural Skills Pedagogy: Before, In and Beyond Higher Education. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429276392-18

When musicians and music educators consider aural training, many of us have a tendency to imagine students transcribing melodic dictation, identifying chord progressions, intervals, and cadences by ear, and otherwise training to recognize the aural f... Read More about A Good Pair of Ears: Conceiving of and developing aural skills in popular music education.

Ground Control and Cloud Booths: Using Dante to break geographical barriers to music production (2021)
Book Chapter
Ferguson, P., & Hook, D. (2021). Ground Control and Cloud Booths: Using Dante to break geographical barriers to music production. In R. Hepworth-Sawyer, R. Toulson, & J. Paterson (Eds.), Innovation in Music: Future Opportunities (89-105). Routledge

In January 2013 the authors became early adopters of Focusrite RedNet. The RedNet Dante-based audio-over-IP interfaces gave their studios and performance areas very flexible connectivity and this was presented at the first Innovation in Music confere... Read More about Ground Control and Cloud Booths: Using Dante to break geographical barriers to music production.

Performing with Drum Kit Technologies (Advanced) (2020)
Book Chapter
Stillie, B. (2020). Performing with Drum Kit Technologies (Advanced). In A. P. bell (Ed.), The Music Technology Cookbook. Oxford University Press

This chapter describes an approach that introduces students to the features and musical affordances of drum kit technologies. Students learn how to use percussion controllers and electronic drum triggers, in conjunction with music software they have... Read More about Performing with Drum Kit Technologies (Advanced).

Motivational Effects of Immersive Media on Adolescents’ Engagement in Cantonese Opera (2020)
Book Chapter
Cheng, L., & Leung, B.-W. (2020). Motivational Effects of Immersive Media on Adolescents’ Engagement in Cantonese Opera. In W. W. Ma, K.-W. Tong, & W. Bo Anna Tso (Eds.), Learning Environment and Design: Current and Future Impacts (213-226). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8167-0_13

Recent advancements in communication and computer technology have made available and affordable the immersive technology necessary for broader applications beyond industrial use. Facing growing competition from the emergence of new media as an attrac... Read More about Motivational Effects of Immersive Media on Adolescents’ Engagement in Cantonese Opera.

Cold commodities: Discourses of decay and purity in a globalised jazz world (2019)
Book Chapter
Medboe, H. (2019). Cold commodities: Discourses of decay and purity in a globalised jazz world. In T. Howell (Ed.), The Nature of Nordic Music (123-138). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315462851

Jazz has been a global music since its inception. In conflating Scandinavian jazz with the production of the ‘Nordic tone’, several accounts of European jazz present the music as a refreshing alternative to a corrupt and stagnant American tradition,... Read More about Cold commodities: Discourses of decay and purity in a globalised jazz world.

When Is A Drummer Not A Drummer? Developing Coordination , Musicianship And Creativity Through Electronic Drum Performance (2019)
Book Chapter
Stillie, B. (2019). When Is A Drummer Not A Drummer? Developing Coordination , Musicianship And Creativity Through Electronic Drum Performance. In Z. Moir, B. Powell, & G. Dylan Smith (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Education Perspectives and Practices (189-201). Bloomsbury Publishing

Many drummers now embrace technology to enhance and extend their setup, and what they can offer their band. Thus, it is important that drum kit education addresses this phenomenon and explores how to use these technologies creatively. However, tradit... Read More about When Is A Drummer Not A Drummer? Developing Coordination , Musicianship And Creativity Through Electronic Drum Performance.

Popular Music Education: Perspectives and Practices (2019)
Book Chapter
Moir, Z., Powell, B., & Smith, G. D. (2019). Popular Music Education: Perspectives and Practices. In Z. Moir, B. Powell, & G. Dylan Smith (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Education: Perspectives and Practices. Bloomsbury Publishing

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How do I get the grades creativity and conflicts of motivation risk and reward. (2019)
Book Chapter
Stefanie, R. (2019). How do I get the grades creativity and conflicts of motivation risk and reward. In Z. Moir, B. Powell, & G. D. Smith (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Education: Perspectives and Practices (395-413). Bloomsbury Publishing

This chapter discusses the thought processes behind learning, teaching, and assessment (LTA) of creativity as a set of skills and processes. I utilize the work I have done in designing and delivering a module (course) that specifically tackles creati... Read More about How do I get the grades creativity and conflicts of motivation risk and reward..

Real Time, Remote, Interactive Recording Sessions: Music Production Without Boundaries (2019)
Book Chapter
Moir, Z., Ferguson, P., & Smith, G. D. (2019). Real Time, Remote, Interactive Recording Sessions: Music Production Without Boundaries. In Producing Music. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315212241

Inhabitants of the 21st century live and work in a world in which many aspects of daily interactions with other humans are no longer hampered by physical distance. Indeed, scholars and practitioners in fields such as music and communications are find... Read More about Real Time, Remote, Interactive Recording Sessions: Music Production Without Boundaries.

An assessment of learning Cantonese opera movement in Hong Kong (2018)
Book Chapter
Leung, B.-W., Mok, M. M. C., Kuo, B.-C., Liu, Z.-Y., Lam, S. M., Ng, C. W., Cheng, L., Ma, K. H. H., & Choi, T. W. (2018). An assessment of learning Cantonese opera movement in Hong Kong. In K. J. Kennedy, & J. Chi-Kin Lee (Eds.), Routledge International Handbook of Schools and Schooling in Asia (220-233). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315694382-20

This chapter discusses the transition of teaching and learning of Cantonese opera in Hong Kong from traditional master-apprentice approach to institutionalised group teaching, and how the development of the Computerised Kinetic Chain Assessment and L... Read More about An assessment of learning Cantonese opera movement in Hong Kong.