Parenting Musically Parenting Musically

Lisa and co-host Julia are joined by five music educators who provided support through the process of writing A Family Guide to Parenting Musically, released today from Oxford University Press! Guests are Dr. Carol Scott-Kassner, retired music education professor; Stacey Kolthammer, early childhood music educator at Lake Shore Montessori Schools in Highland Park, IL; Dr. Elizabeth Tracy, music education professor at Heidelberg University; Kelsey Giotta, band director for Plain Local Schools, OH; and Dr. Erin Hopkins, music education professor at Augustana College. Guests share their favorite aspects of A Family Guide to Parenting Musically.

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Liz Rose, a Grammy award-winning songwriter, music publisher, and Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee, discusses her approach to collaboration with young performing artists and how it relates to her parenting and grandparenting. Radio Cremata, Associate Professor and Chair of Music Education at Ithaca College, responds with connections to his research on facilitation strategies in popular music education.



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Lisa’s new book, A Family Guide to Parenting Musically - available for pre-order

Mike Molinar, President and co-founder of Big Machine Music (BMM), and Amanda Molinar, owner of Grow Pediatric Nutrition, share how they engage in music with their sons. Mike discusses how his work connecting songwriters with artists relates to parenthood. Scott Wynne, Professor of Music at Appalachian State University, talks about their Music Industry Studies program and provides information about how young people can prepare for a career in behind-the-scenes aspects of the music industry.



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Lisa’s new book, A Family Guide to Parenting Musically - available for pre-order

Music educator, musician, and scholar-activist Brandi Waller-Pace connects the ideas that Rissi Palmer shared in Episode 26a to her own philosophy and work as the founder of the nonprofit organization Decolonizing the Music Room and organizer of the Fort Worth African American Roots Music Festival.



Brandi’s music and scholarship

Decolonizing the Music Room

Fort Worth African American Roots Music Festival

Lisa’s new book, A Family Guide to Parenting Musically - available for pre-order

Musician and advocate Rissi Palmer discusses how she supports country artists of color through her Color Me Country radio show and artist grant fund and how she balances her work as a performer, speaker, and mother. Rissi shares her advice for how to diversify children’s music listening in an intentional way.



Rissi’s music

Color me Country Radio with Rissi Palmer

Color Me Country Artist Grant Fund

Lisa’s new book, A Family Guide to Parenting Musically - available for pre-order

John Kratus, independent scholar and Professor Emeritus of Music Education at Michigan State University, connects his philosophy of music education and experiences of teaching songwriting to the perspectives and stories that Trent Wagler and Eric Brubaker of The Steel Wheels shared in Episode 25a.



Dr. John Kratus’s article Music Education at the Tipping Point

Dr. John Kratus’s chapter Songwriting Class as a Place for Healing

Lisa’s new book, A Family Guide to Parenting Musically - available for pre-order