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 three 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.

Course Faculty:
Loneka Battiste, African American Ring Song
Patricia Shehan Campbell, Pedagogy; The Weight of a Song; Ngoma
Juliana Cantarelli Vita, Music in Brazil
Will Coppola, WMP in the Instrumental Curriculum
Clayton Dahm, Lessons from the Global Jukebox
Ke Guo, Chinese Traditional Music
John Lopez, Latin American Percussion Rhythms
Constance McKoy, Culturally Responsive Teaching
Jennifer Mellizo, Lessons from Smithsonian Folkways
Chris Mena, Social Justice and Songwriting
John-Carlos Perea, American Indian and Powwow Music
Amanda C. Soto, Social Justice; Pedagogy; Technology

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For more information, please email Dr. Amanda C Soto (asoto@txstate.edu) or Dr. Patricia Shenan Campbell (pcamp@uw.edu).

Description:
Join music educators, ethnomusicologists and guest artists as we gather in person for West Virginia University’s sixth annual World Music Pedagogy Course: Celebrating Global and Local Music Culture. Participants will engage with music and cultural traditions from Appalachia, West Africa, Northeast Brazil, Lebanon, and Trinidad in daily workshops and presentations led by WVU faculty and guest artists. Opportunities to explore Smithsonian Folkways’ rich ethnographic, audio, film and print archives will open ears and minds to people and places both near and far as we consider connections to the vibrant musical cultures in our classrooms, communities, and beyond.

Principles and practices of World Music Pedagogy (WMP) will be at the center of demonstrations and conversations throughout the week as we consider pathways for promoting culturally sensitive, diverse, and inclusive music curricula in K-12, university, and community music settings. Strategies for applying the dimensions and pathways of WMP will be highlighted with examples from Routledge’s new World Music Pedagogy series and explored by participants in a collaborative project featuring archival recordings, WMP’s listen-and-learn pedagogy and acknowledgement of people and place.

Smithsonian Folkways Certificate and Professional Development
Upon successful completion of the course, participants will receive documentation of 30 clock hours and a certificate of accomplishment from the Smithsonian Folkways Institution for specialized study in world music pedagogy. Participants may also enroll in non-degree graduate credit through WVU Online Professional Development.

Course faculty:
Emmanuel Agbeli, West African Drum and Dance/Dagbe Cultural Institute
Chanler Bailey, Trinidad Steel Pan
Joe Boulos, Lebanese Drumming
Juliana Cantarelli Vita, World Music Pedagogy; Music of Northeast Brazil
Will Coppola, World Music Pedagogy in the Instrumental Settings
Sophia Enriquez, Latinx in Appalachia
Jennifer Mellizo, Smithsonian Folkways Learning Initiatives
John Posey, Old-Time Appalachia
Janet Robbins, World Music Pedagogy; Children’s Culture
Travis Stimeling, Appalachian Music; director WVU Bluegrass and Old-Time Bands
Mike Vercelli, Music traditions of Ghana and African Diaspora

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For more information, please email Janet Robbins (Janet.Robbins@mail.wvu.edu).

Description:
Join ethnomusicologists, educators, traditional artists, and culture-bearers in a webinar course on World Music Pedagogy: Teaching Music/Teaching Culture. With 12 sessions over two 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.

Course Faculty:
Phyllis Byrdwell, African American Gospel
Patricia Shehan Campbell, WMP Practice; Ngoma
Thione Diop, Wolof Drumming from Senegal
Shannon Dudley & Marisol Berrios-Miranda, Caribbean Rhythms
J. Christopher Roberts, Children’s Musical Cultures
Sheree Seretse, Zimbabwean Marimbas
Amanda C. Soto, Social Justice; Pedagogy; Technology

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 include:
Karen Howard: Anti-Racism in Music Education, Avoiding Cultural Appropriation, Tahitian Music, Brazilian Samba, Wagogo music of Tanzania, and more
Tim O’Keefe: Intro to Arabic Music
Siama Matazungidi and Dallas Johnson: Music from the Congo
Nyssa Brown: Children’s Singing Games from South Africa
Lyz Jaakola: Minnesota Indigenous Music Practices
Fode Bangoura: djembe from Guinea
Joko Sutrisno: Javanese Gamelan, Indonesia
Bob Walser: Sea Shanties

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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