2023 World Music Pedagogy Courses
The World Music Pedagogy course weaves together experiences in music, cultural meaning, and culturally sensitive pedagogical strategies, and provides for active listening episodes leading to participatory, performative, and creative musical experiences—all tailored to fit learners of various ages and experiences. The course emphasizes the teaching of global-local music for intercultural understanding, and attends to culturally relevant pedagogy as it pertains to music education practices. Featured resources in the course are selections from the reserves of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and the World Music Pedagogy series of books/recording links, all directed to the ways of knowing the world of music, in music, and through music. All are welcome, including music educators, all-subject educators, artist-musicians, applied ethnomusicologists, curricular designers, community organizers, and all who are seeking further insights on musical-cultural diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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Schedule
T & Th in May - Online: Music Teachers in International Schools
June 19th-23rd - Texas State University (Cancelled)
June 26th-30th - University of St. Thomas
June 26th-30th - West Virginia University
July 5th-8th - University of Hartford (Cancelled)
August 14th-18th - Université Laval, Quebec
Unless otherwise stated, all courses will be held in person.
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Online Webinar Course
World Music Pedagogy: Teaching Music/Teaching Culture
Dates: June 26–28
Location: Online, Delivered by Zoom
Course Directors: Amanda C. Soto and Patricia Shehan Campbell
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.Three course options are available: the pedagogical sessions, the guest artist sessions, or the full course of both pedagogical and guest artist sessions. Enrolled participants will receive professional development hours and certification by Smithsonian Folkways. [Note: Because some participants are repeating the course, we’re adding new faculty while continuing others.]Course Faculty:
David Aarons, Children’s Songs from the Caribbean
Loneka Battiste, African American Ring Song
Patricia Shehan Campbell, World Music Pedagogy; Ngoma; Song Histories
Juliana Cantarelli Vita, Music in Brazil
Will Coppola, WMP in the Instrumental Curriculum
León García Corona, Mexican Mariachi
Ke Guo, Chinese Traditional Music
Srivani Jade, Hindustani Indian Vocal Music
Jean Ngoya Kidula, Music in Kenya
John Lopez, Latin American Percussion Rhythms
Constance McKoy, Culturally Responsive Teaching
John-Carlos Perea, American Indian and Powwow Music
Amanda C. Soto, Social Justice; Pedagogy; TechnologyPlease click here for course registration.
For more information, please email Dr. Amanda C Soto (asoto@txstate.edu) or Dr. Patricia Shenan Campbell (pcamp@uw.edu).
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Online WMP Course with MTIIS (Music Teachers in International Schools)
Dates: Tuesdays and Thursdays in May (6:00-8:00 p Singapore/Malaysia time)
Location: Online, Delivered by Zoom
Course Directors: Jennifer Walden and Chris Koelma (MTIIS Coordinator)
Description:
This series of workshops, seminars, and discussions examines cultural diversification in music programs, resources, and methodologies. With the inclusion of ethnomusicologists, educators, traditional artists, and culture-bearers, participants will gather to learn ways to deliver inclusive, culture-rich programs that nurture students as global citizens. Addressing the growing number of teachers working in international schools, sessions will investigate learning from and bringing in local artists from schools' host countries. Sessions will also feature song, dance, and instrumental performance, guided by musicians and educators experienced in student engagement. Issues of race, equity, social activism, and sensitivity to host country norms will be discussed from the standpoint of how we talk about music and deliver musical experiences to general, instrumental, and vocal classes. Participants will receive a certificate from Smithsonian Folkways Recordings in World Music Pedagogy.Course Faculty:
David Almengod: Música folclórica of the Dominican Republic
Kyle Heide: Kalimba in the classroom
Jennifer Walden: Interdisciplinary planning, DEI, Thinking and Teaching from Global Perspectives, Culture Bearers in international school settings, West African interlocking rhythms, vocal styles (underpinned in curriculum)
Rafael Prato: Música folclórica of Venezuela
Patricia Shehan Campbell: World Music Pedagogy - Cross-cultural Samplings of the Five Dimensions
Malaysian percussion specialist from HANDS Percussion, Kuala Lumpur
Please click here to view course listing and register.
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Texas State University
World Music Pedagogy: Teaching Music/Teaching Culture
Dates: Cancelled for 2023. Check back next year!
Location: San Marcos, Texas
Course Director: Amanda C. Soto
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 & DanceFor more information, please email Dr. Amanda C Soto (amandasoto1@gmail.com).
Please click here to learn more and register.
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University of St. Thomas
World Music Pedagogy
Dates: June 26–30
Location: St. Paul, Minnesota
Course Director: Karen Howard
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 GamesFor more information, please contact Dr. Karen Howard at karen.howard@stthomas.edu.
Please click here to view course listing and register.
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West Virginia University
World Music Pedagogy: Celebrating Global and Local Music Culture
Dates: June 26–30 (9:00–4:30)
Location: Morgantown, West Virginia
Course Director: Janet Robbins
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, Afro-Cuban, and Trinidadian 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.Smithsonian Folkways Certificate and Professional Development
Upon successful completion of the course, participants will receive documentation of 30 clock hours and a certificate from Smithsonian Folkways for specialized study in world music pedagogy. Teachers needing course credit can register for additional non-degree graduate credit through WVU Online Professional Development.WVU faculty:
Katelyn Best: Ethnomusicology, Cultural Activism
Janet Robbins: WMP pedagogy; children's culture
Travis Stimeling: Ethnomusicology
Mike Vercelli: Percussion traditions of Africa and the African diaspora
Guest faculty:
Chanler Bailey: Steel drums of Trinidad
Patricia Shehan Campbell: Guest speaker, World Music Pedagogy Juliana Cantarelli Vita, World Music Pedagogy; Northeast Brazil
William Coppola, World Music Pedagogy in instrumental and university settings
Zane Cupec, Afro-Cuban song and drumming
Sophia Enriquez: Mexilachia
Mary Linscheid: Appalachia
Emily Miller and Jesse Milnes: Appalachian harmony singing and old-time musicPlease click here for course registration.
For more information, please email Janet Robbins (Janet.Robbins@mail.wvu.edu).
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University of Hartford
Dates: Cancelled for 2023. Check back next year!
Location: Hartford, Connecticut
Course Director: Juliana Cantarelli Vita
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Université Laval [In French]
* Information in English below
Date: août 14-18
Lieu: Québec, Canada
Directeur de cours: Valerie Peters
Description:
Ce séminaire a pour objectif d’explorer les musiques traditionnelles du Québec, celles des Premiers Peuples, les apports des musiques d’origine françaises, acadiennes, anglaises, irlandaises et écossaises, ainsi que les musiques d’ailleurs des peuples les plus représentés dans les écoles du Québec. Les approches de la World Music Pedagogy (WMP) (Campbell, 2003, 2018) et celle de l’éducation musicale interculturelle, avec ses principes d’ouverture aux autres, de justice sociale excluant le racisme et l’ethnocentrisme et de développement de l’identité culturelle, guideront les participants vers la conception de stratégies pédagogiques appropriées.Cette formation, conçue en partenariat avec des porteurs de culture, vous offre une occasion unique de vivre les musiques d’ici et d’ailleurs et d’en apprendre davantage sur la musique des Premiers peuples, des peuples fondateurs du Québec et du Canada et de ceux issus de l’immigration afin de favoriser les échanges culturels. Ce séminaire demande des lectures de textes en anglais.Enseignant.e.s du cours:
Valerie Peters : Coordinatrice, programmes d'études secondaires
Rita Bélisle : Musiques traditionnelles du Québec, programmes d’études primaire
Sandria Bouliane : Histoire de la musique au Québec
Anita Prest : Décolonisation, perspectives autochtones
Patricia Shehan Campbell : Pédagogie des musiques du monde, musiques de Bulgarie, Inde
Conseil québécois du patrimoine vivant
Fernando Yero : Musiques traditionnelles cubaines, percussions
Premiers peuples du Québec
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Pour plus d’informations, écrivez-nous à ecole.amglobenski@mus.ulaval.ca.
Dates: August 14-18
Location: Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Course Director: Valerie Peters
Description:
This seminar aims to explore the traditional musics of Quebec, that of the First Peoples, the contributions of music of French, Acadian, English, Irish and Scottish origin, as well as the musics of immigrant peoples in Quebec-Canadian schools. The approaches of World Music Pedagogy (WMP) (Campbell, 2003, 2018) and intercultural music education, with its principles of openness to others, social justice excluding racism and ethnocentrism, and development of cultural identity, will guide participants in designing appropriate pedagogical strategies.Come join us for public activities in partnership with culture-tradition bearers during an intensive week at Laval University in Quebec City, Canada, recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage treasure, with its cultural vitality and spectacular natural surroundings. The seminar will be conducted in French, with a possibility of shadowing participants who need English translation.Course Faculty:
Valerie Peters: Coordinator, Secondary Curriculum
Rita Bélisle: Traditional Musics of Quebec, Primary Curriculum
Sandria Bouliane: History of Music in Quebec
Anita Prest: Decolonization, Indigenous perspectives
Patricia Shehan Campbell: World Music Pedagogy, Musics of Bulgaria, India
Quebec Living Heritage Council
Fernando Yero: Cuban traditional musics, percussion
First Peoples of Quebec
Others TBA
Please click here to view course listing and register.
For more information, please email ecole.amglobenski@mus.ulaval.ca.
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