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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction : the globalization and localization of learning, teaching, and musical identity / Lucy Green -- The permeable classroom : learning, teaching, and musical identity in a remote Australian aboriginal homelands school / Kathryn Marsh -- Popular music listening as "non-resistance" : the cultural reproduction of musical identity in Japanese families / Kyoko Koizumi -- From homeland to Hong Kong : the dual musical experience and identity of diasporic Filipino women / Annie On Nei Mok -- Village, province, and nation : aspects of identity in children's learning of music and dance in Bali / Peter Dunbar-Hall -- Music for a postcolonial child : theorizing Malaysian memories / Roe-Min Kok -- Continuity and change : the guru-shishya relationship in karnatic classical music training / Sophie Grimmer -- "Music is in our blood" : Gujarati Muslim musicians in the UK / John Baily -- Greek popular music and the construction of musical identities by Greek-Cypriot school children / Avra Pieridou-Skoutella -- Music-learning and the formation of local identity through the philharmonic society wind bands of Corfu / Zoe Dionyssiou -- Playing with Barbie : exploring South African township children's musical games as resources for pedagogy / Susan Harrop-Allin -- Personal, local, and national identities in Ghanaian performance ensembles / Trevor Wiggins -- Music festivals in the Lapland region : constructing identities through musical events / Sidsel Karlsen -- Shaping a music teacher identity in Sweden / Eva Georgii-Hemming -- Icelandic men and their identity in songs and in singing / Robert Faulkner -- Discovering and affirming musical identity through extracurricular music-making in English secondary schools / Stephanie Pitts -- Scottish traditional music : identity and the "carrying stream" / Charles Byrne -- Performance, transmission, and identity among Ireland's new generation of traditional musicians / John O'Flynn -- Fostering a "musical say" : identity, expression, and decision making in a US school ensemble / Sharon G. …”

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“…Hay gurús religiosos, mentores espirituales, gurús de la motivación, campeones de la autoayuda, gurús financieros… La lista aumenta cada día, a medida que un nuevo gurú ocupa el centro del escenario y pone en circulación puntos de vista dignos de atención. …”
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