Music Education in a Time of Tradition and Transformation 

Authors

  • Patricia Shehan Campbell University of Washington (USA)  Author

Keywords:

music education and culturally conscious pedagogy, tradition and transformation

Abstract

While acknowledging our long history in the musical engagement of children, youth, and adults in schools, I acknowledge our continued efforts in providing the substance of a musical education for all who desire (and require) it.  Culturally responsive teaching, shaped by a consciousness of music and musicians hailing from local communities and global cultures, informs as well as transforms mindful music education policy and practice. 
I argue for the study of music as core of a culturally conscious pedagogy, and suggest that experiences in listening, participatory musicking, performance, composing-improvising, and the interdisciplinary study of music as art, humanistic endeavor, and social behavior lead to a discovery of music, the community, and the world. 

Author Biography

  • Patricia Shehan Campbell, University of Washington (USA) 

    Patricia Shehan Campbell was named Donald E. Petersen Professor of Music in 2000, and continues to hold this appointment offered to accomplished faculty at the University of Washington. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses at the interface of Ethnomusicology and Music Education, including music for children, world music pedagogy, and ethnographic research in music. Since 2010, she has chaired the Ethnomusicology program, establishing the BA in Ethnomusicology degree and developing studies in music and community.  Campbell is published widely on issues of cross-cultural music learning, children’s musical cultures, cultural diversity in music education, and the study of the world’s musical cultures in K-12 and university courses. In 2013, she received a Taichi Traditional Music Award for her work on the transmission, teaching and preservation of traditional music in schools and university programs of music education. Campbell is chair of the Board for Smithsonian Folkways, where she works on curricular development of archived recordings for the dissemination through teaching of American and global music expressions in schools and communities. She is co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Children's Musical Cultures (2013) and the Global Music Series (2004-present). 

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Published

2018-07-01

Issue

Vol. 15 (2018)

Section

Articles