Description:
Join ethnomusicologists, educators, traditional artists, and culture-bearers in a webinar course on World Music Pedagogy: Teaching Music/Teaching Culture. With 18 sessions over 3 days, participants will explore the application of diversity and dignity to teaching music to children and youth in elementary and secondary schools. Course sessions will lead to the development of teaching/learning content and process via World Music Pedagogy, with attention to cultural histories, contexts, and sensibilities. Excursions into a variety of the world’s musical cultures—both local and global—are backed by recommendations for resources (mediated and “human” vis-à-vis culture-bearers), including attention to the resources of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Sessions will feature the performance of songs, dance, and instrumental music as taught by artist musicians and seasoned teachers, along with ongoing dialogue on questions of music and race, indigeneity, gender and sexuality, and social activism in the musical education of learners of all ages and experiences.

Description:
Ethnomusicologists, educators, traditional artists, and culture-bearers will gather together with teachers in this week-long, in-person, intensive course on  World Music Pedagogy: Teaching Music/Teaching Culture. In 20 sessions over 5 days, participants can know experiences in the application of diversity and dignity to teaching music to children and youth in K-12 elementary and secondary schools. A wide span of course sessions will lead to the development of teaching/learning content and process via World Music Pedagogy, with attention to the cultural histories, contexts, and sensibilities of music for teaching band, choir, orchestra, general music, and various other specialized classes. Recommended resources will include both mediated and ways to integrate “human resources” (vis-à-vis culture-bearers), Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, and other recordings, videos, websites, and print material. Sessions will feature the performance of songs, dance, and instrumental music as taught by artist musicians and seasoned teachers, along with ongoing dialogue on questions of music and race, indigeneity, gender and sexuality, and social activism in the musical education of learners of all ages and experiences. Participants will join together in sharing particular means of teaching world music, and will receive professional development hours and a certificate conferred from the Smithsonian Institution and Texas State University.

Course Faculty:
Patricia Shehan Campbell, World Music Pedagogy Theory & Practice
Genaro Gonzalez, Trinidadian Steel Pan
Gordon Jones, Balinese Gamelan
John A. Lopez, Afro-Caribbean Rhythms & Mariachi Music
Amanda C. Soto, Social Justice, Pedagogy, Technology, Conjunto/Tejano
Jordan Stern, Texas Country Music & Modern Band
To be Confirmed:
Constance McKoy, Culturally Responsive Teaching
Aboubacar Sylla, West African Drum & Dance

For more information, please email Dr. Amanda C Soto (amandasoto1@gmail.com).

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Description:
A diverse range of media and repertoire are explored in this week-long in-person intensive with the goal of building confidence and skills in diversifying music teaching and learning experiences. Attention will be given to the sociocultural and sociohistorical contexts of the music cultures. This is achieved through the performance of songs, dance, instrumental music, and discussions of constructs related to creating anti-biased environments and dispositions. Participants will be guided through recordings and curricular materials from the Smithsonian Folkways archives and experiences with culture bearers and teaching artists that fit the needs of students in knowing music (and knowing culture through music). Musical experiences will be tailored for use at various levels, including in classes for K-12 setting, community music, and higher education. Enrolled participants will join together to share particular means of teaching world music, and will receive a certificate from the Smithsonian Institution in World Music Pedagogy. 3 Graduate Credits available as an option.

Tentative Guests:
Pat O'Keefe: Brazilian Samba and Batucada
Karen Howard: Anti-Racism in Music Education, Avoiding Cultural Appropriation, Tahitian Music, Wagogo music of Tanzania, and more
Tim O’Keefe: Intro to Arabic Music
Siama Matazungidi and Dallas Johnson: Music from the Congo
Adrian Davis: Music Educator Folkways
Fode Bangoura: djembe from Guinea
Joko Sutrisno: Javanese Gamelan, Indonesia
Qorsho Hassan and Becca Buck: Somali Songs and Games

Description:
Join music educators, ethnomusicologists, and guest artists for this year’s in-person professional development course celebrating local and global culture. Participants will engage with music in daily workshops featuring Appalachian, Mexilachian, West African, Northeast Brazilian, Lebanese, Trinidadian, and Andean traditions. Principles and practices of World Music Pedagogy (WMP) will be at the center of demonstrations and conversations throughout the duration of the course with attention to promoting culturally sensitive, diverse, and inclusive music curricula in K-12, university, and community music settings. Participants will explore Smithsonian Folkways’ rich ethnographic, audio, film, and print archives and draw deeper connections to the vibrant cultures in their classrooms, communities, and beyond. Applications of WMP for K-12 and university classrooms will be illustrated with examples from Routledge’s new World Music Pedagogy series and highlighted in projects featuring SFR archival recordings and WMP dimensions and pathways.

Description:
As we live in this ever-connected world, it has been increasingly important to know how to navigate the rich resources from the world’s musical cultures when embracing this kind of practices in the music classroom. This World Music Pedagogy course will focus on theories and practices of music educators who are teaching music with musical and cultural aims in mind. Join ethnomusicologists, music educators, and traditional culture-bearing artists in this week-long course that brings together multiple ways of experiencing music of the world’s people, embracing music in and as culture. Participants will explore the application of issues of diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice (DEIJ) in different educational settings: elementary/secondary schools (general, instrumental, choral) as well as in the community and higher education. Sessions will encompass active music-making featuring various cultures, as well as the different pedagogical approaches within World Music Pedagogy. Grounded in principles of ethnomusicology, and including music of fieldwork of American and global cultures, this course provides the support for music educators in all settings who aim to foster a global understanding through music.