Equipped2succeed by Beverley Burton
Over the past two centuries Western culture has largely valorized a particular kind of good music--highly serious, wondrously deep, stylistically authentic, heroically created, and strikingly original--and, at the same time, has marginalized music that does not live up to those ideals.In Good Music, John J. Sheinbaum explores these traditional models for valuing music. By engaging examples such as Handel oratorios, Beethoven and Mahler symphonies, jazz improvisations, Bruce Springsteen, and prog rock, he argues that metaphors of perfection do justice to neither the perceived strengths nor the assumed weaknesses of the music in question. Instead, he proposes an alternative model of appreciation where abstract notions of virtue need not dictate our understanding. Good music can, with pride, be playful rather than serious, diverse rather than unified, engaging to both body and mind, in dialogue with manifold styles and genres, and collaborative to the core. We can widen the scope of what music we value and reconsider the conventional rituals surrounding it, while retaining the joys of making music, listening closely, and caring passionately.
Beverley Burton is a leading educationalist who has led, and contributed to, development programmes in education and sport across the UK, Europe an beyond. Beverley has developed a unique framework, workshops and materials to develop the thinking, attitudes, behaviours and core capabilities essential to thrive, succeed and maintain wellbeing. She is passionate about equipping people, especially young people, to realise their potential. Beverley seeks to empower young people to be learners: motivated and equipped to constantly learn, unlearn, relearn. Her work is focused on challenging and expecting young people to aim high: set goals and achieve them. A leading light in enterprise learning, Beverley's work helps schools equip young people to be able to see, create, develop and make the most of opportunities. Beverley's learning and development programmes with organisations focus on equipping individuals to continuously improve, manage stress and maintain. Her equipped2lead programmes enable individuals to develop those with whom they work. Over the past 25 years, Beverley has combined her full-time professional role with her main role: raising her children, Harriet and George. Her work has informed her parenting and raising two children has expanded and challenged her thinking. Creating her vision for being the best parent she could be when her daughter was born, Beverley has sought to nurture, empower, enable and equip her children to realise their potential. In her work with parents, she openly shares practical, real-life examples of how she has equipped her own children to become rounded, self-determining individuals following their dreams and realising their goals.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780992667849 |
| ISBN 10 | 0992667844 |
| Title | Equipped2succeed |
| Author | Beverley Burton |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Equipped2succeed |
| Year published | 2018-12-19 |
| Number of pages | 244 |
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