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The Transformation of the Popular Song as a Tool for Arts Education and Cultural Sustainability

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This paper considers selected arrangements of secular and sacred popular songs for choral ensembles, to highlight embedded and applied artistic concepts. I relate these to the notion of musicianship and music as state and way of knowing, respectively. I then articulate the potential of pop music arrangements for arts education, where indigenous aesthetic concepts face new artistic realities toward cultural transformation. This provides a model for understanding cultural sustainability.

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  1. Technical University of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya

    Emily Achieng’ Akuno

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  1. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

    Benjamin Jörissen

  2. IU University of Applied Sciences, Stuttgart, Germany

    Lisa Unterberg

  3. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

    Tanja Klepacki

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Akuno, E.A. (2023). The Transformation of the Popular Song as a Tool for Arts Education and Cultural Sustainability. In: Jörissen, B., Unterberg, L., Klepacki, T. (eds) Cultural Sustainability and Arts Education. Yearbook of Arts Education Research for Cultural Diversity and Sustainable Development, vol 2. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3915-0_3

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