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Co-creating a New Pedagogy for Online Music Curriculum. Hearing Music, Experiencing Culture. Dana Reason, Ph.D. Director Popular Music Studies.
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Co-creating a New Pedagogy for Online Music Curriculum Hearing Music, Experiencing Culture Dana Reason, Ph.D. Director Popular Music Studies
The subject of music is personal for everyone. How many times have you been asked: What is your favorite song? Artist? Many of us light up at the fact that perhaps by sharing something so personal, intimate and essentially “ours” – namely music, we hope to make a connection and perhaps become friends with the world. The online learning environment is a perfect place to talk and share music. And it has never been so easy with the new streaming technologies available to students, faculty and researchers.
Seeing Music Through the Lens of YouTube • Bringing History Alive : Ed Sullivan, Beatlemania • Intercultural Music Awareness : Yo Yo Ma, Silk Road Project • Building Global Networks Through Local Music :Area Code Hip Hop
Bringing History Alive : From Beatlemania ’64 to ITUNES Mania ‘10 • From the Academy to the Kitchen : Making Music Owned • Engaging with the Traditional Student • Connecting Multi-Generational Students • Hearing Music Visually
Intercultural Music Awareness • Challenging Assumptions of Traditional Non-Western Music • Developing Vocabulary of World Instruments and Techniques • 21st Century Applications : Hybridity of Rock Musicians • Awareness & Accessibility :John Williams, Memoirs of a Geisha
HYBRID ARTISTS • Six Degrees DJ ChebbiSebbah • Peter Gabriel Fatiali Khan Sledgehammer • Sting See It Rain Dream of Rain DJ Cheb iSabbah & Six Degrees Peter Gabriel & Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Sting & ChebMami
CORVALLIS’ MOST WANTED What’s Your Area Code? Generative Education
Recap • Connects • Communicates • Generates • Translates Meaning • Textbound • Liberating the Text:A Live Medium • Long-term Intercultural Exchanges • Generative Methodology
AFTERWORD For me online teaching is a relatively new experience. I began developing my first course: Hip Hop Music and Culture in the spring of 2009 In the process of teaching the above and subsequent classes for the popular music minor, I have had to learn about new tools and pedagogies as well as be flexible and ready to change what works best with students, the curriculum, and the online setting. Clearly, the online courses have required more time than traditional on-site courses partly because of the nature of courses- which are centered around popular music and culture shifting (on a regular basis)