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:
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

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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, 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.

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.