Description:
Join ethnomusicologists, educators, traditional artists, and culture-bearers in a webinar course on World Music Pedagogy: Teaching Music/Teaching Culture. With 24 sessions over four 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 Co-Directors:
Amanda C. Soto, WMP Learning Pathways, Social Justice in Music Education, Technology
Patricia Shehan Campbell, WMP Practice, Music’s Cultural Contexts, School-Community Intersections

Course Faculty:
Loneka Battiste, African American Ring Shout!
Marisol Berrios-Miranda, Music of Puerto Rico
Juliana Cantarelli Vita, Multicultural Sensitivity through WMP
Will Coppola, WMP in Instrumental Settings
Thione Diop, Wolof Drumming of Senegal
Shannon Dudley, Cultural Appropriation or Appreciation?
Ke Guo, Chinese Music for Flutes and Voices
Ben Hunter, “Roots” and Blues Music
Srivani Jade, Hindustani Vocal Music of North India
John Lopez, Salsa Rhythms
Constance McKoy, Culturally Responsive Teaching
Jennifer Mellizo, SFR Learning Pathways
Chris Mena, Social Justice and Music Education, Collective Songwriting
John-Carlos Perea, American Indian Powwow Music
Christopher Roberts, WMP and Children’s Songs/Singing Games

Description:
Join music educators, ethnomusicologists and guest artists for sessions featuring Appalachian/Mexilachian, West African, Afro-Brazilian, Taiko and Lebanese darbuka drumming traditions and take a virtual tour of the Dagbe Cultural Institute in Ghana with director Emmanuel Agbeli. Principles and practices of World Music Pedagogy (WMP) will be at the center of demonstrations and conversations throughout that week as we consider pathways for promoting culturally sensitive, diverse, and inclusive music curricula in K-12, university, and music settings. Participants will explore online resources, including but not limited to Smithsonian Folkways’ rich ethnographic, audio, film, and print archives, and develop strategies for connecting student’s diverse backgrounds, experiences, and interests with the vibrant musical cultures in their communities and beyond. Applications of WMP for K-12 classrooms will be highlighted with examples from Routledge’s new World Music Pedagogy series and culminate with the creation and recording of podcast episodes by participants in the course. These podcast episodes will feature archival recordings, listen-and-learn pedagogy, and acknowledgement of people and place. Upon successful completion of the course, participants will receive documentation of specialized study in world music pedagogy and completion of 26 clock hours. Non-degree graduate credit is an option through WVU Online Professional Development.

Lead faculty:
Janet Robbins (WMP pedagogy; Afro-Brazilian games and dance)
Travis Stimeling (Musicology; Appalachian music; director of WVU’s Bluegrass/Old Time ensembles)
Mike Vercelli (Director of WVU’s World Music Performance Center; specialist in percussive performance traditions of African and African diaspora)
Juliana Cantarelli Vita: (WMP pedagogy; ethnomusicology; Northeast Brazil)

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: Eastern Washington University will host its second Smithsonian Folkways certificate course in World Music Pedagogy. This five-day course provides an intensive immersion into music cultures taught by local musican/artist/teachers. These culture bearers come in for 90-minute sessions during which they provide context for the music they are sharing (when it’s performed, why it’s performed, by whom, etc.), they teach us to DO some of the music, and there is time for Q&A at the end of each session. There are 3-4 ninety-minute sessions per day with these culture-bearers, and time between to discuss and explore musics of the world as a group. Participants create a lesson (or more) based on music from a culture of their choice for the end of the week. The template for this is provided the first day, as are examples throughout the week. Friday afternoon concludes with an “Informance” (interviews with musician-teachers and workshop participants, a performance of some of what we’ve learned, and a reception) at KPBX, our local NPR-affiliate radio station in Spokane.

The faculty roster is still developing and the music cultures we will be working with this summer include West African drumming, East African marimba, Hawaiian song and dance, Trinidadian Steel plans, World Dance, music of the Spokane tribe, and more.

It’s a wonderful way to experience music across the world as taught by culture-bearers. We all come away with lessons to use in our K-12 music classrooms, resources for accessing music cultures, and experience and confidence to enrich our teaching.

We’d love to have you come out to Eastern for this summer’s workshop. There is a Holiday Inn Express just five minutes drive from campus that offers a special rate for workshop participants, and plenty of food venues on campus as well.

Please click here to view course listing and register.
If for any reason the workshop is cancelled, you will be notified immediately, no later than two weeks before the first day of the workshop, and your registration fees will be returned.

For more information, please contact Cyndy Nasman via email at cnasman@ewu.edu.