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.
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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Texas State University
World Music Pedagogy: Teaching Music/Teaching Culture
Dates: June 19–23
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, 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.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
Joseph Boulos: Lebanese drumming
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
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: July 5–8
Location: Hartford, Connecticut
Course Director: Juliana Cantarelli Vita
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.
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