Description:
This exciting new course provides a variety of diverse musical experiences along with discussion of resources and pedagogies for teaching cultural musics in an ethical way in a Canadian context. Focusing on musics from people in Treaty 1, this course is intended to provide tools and models for future and current K-12 music educators in Manitoba, Canada and beyond. The course will run Friday nights after school (dinner provided) and Saturday mornings five times over the Winter term. Each weekend, we will explore different themes and musics. Topics and culture bearers include:

• Music and dance culture of the Red River Métis with award-winning fiddler Patti Kusturok and Yvonne Chartrand of V’ni Dansi
• Teaching Indigenous perspectives in a good way with pow wow singer Ray (Coco) Stevenson and friends
• Ghanian drumming, children’s songs and performance art of the African diaspora with Dr. Dawn Muir and dub poet and historian Dr. Afua Cooper
• The development and principles of World Music Pedagogy with Dr. Patricia Sheehan Campbell
• The bandura and musics of the Ukrainian diaspora with Julian Kytasty and Dr. Marcia Ostashewski
• Children’s songs and games from Brazil, Nigeria, Jamaica, the Red River Métis, the Ukraine, the Filipino diaspora
• Smithsonian Folkways resources for teaching culture through music
• Intercultural experiences with music making with Dr. Hussein Janmohamed
• A case study of Reconciliation through music: Starting an Indigenous drumming group in the Canadian military

Description:
Join ethnomusicologists, educators, traditional artists, and culture-bearers in a webinar course on World Music Pedagogy: Teaching Music/Teaching Culture. In its 19th year, with an experienced faculty of artists, educators, and ethnomusicologists, participants will explore the application of diversity and dignity to teaching music to children and youth in elementary and secondary schools, as well as in higher education. 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:
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 music traditions of Appalachia, West Africa, Eastern Europe, Northeast Brazil, and Trinidad. Principles and practices of World Music Pedagogy (WMP) will be at the center of demonstrations and conversations throughout 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 and communities. 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 participants’ projects featuring SFR archival materials and dimensions of World Music Pedagogy.