Patricia Shehan Campbell, Ph.D.
Patricia Shehan Campbell is Donald E. Peterson Professor of Music at the University of Washington, where she teaches courses at the interface of education and ethnomusicology. A singer and pianist, with studies of the Japanese koto, Celtic harp, Karnatic Indian mridangam, and Bulgarian and Wagogo song, she has lectured internationally on the pedagogy of world music and children’s musical cultures. She is the author of Lessons from the World (1991), Music in Cultural Context (1996), Songs in Their Heads (1998, 2010), Teaching Music Globally (2004), Musician and Teacher (2008), Music, Education, and Diversity: Bridging Cultures and Communities (2018), co-author of Music in Childhood (2017, 4th edition) and Redefining Music Studies in an Age of Change (2017), co-editor of the Global Music Series and the Oxford Handbook on Children’s Musical Cultures (2013). Campbell is recipient of the 2017 Koizumi Prize and the 2012 Taiji Award for work on the preservation of traditional music through educational practice, and was designated the Senior Researcher in Music Education of the National Association for Music Education in 2002. Chair of the Advisory Board of Smithsonian Folkways and educational consultant in the repatriation of Alan Lomax recordings to the American South, she is editor of a forthcoming series of six volumes on World Music Pedagogy (2018) for practicing and prospective teachers.
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Amanda C. Soto, Ph.D.
Amanda Christina Soto is the Associate Professor of Music Education at the Texas State University where she teaches undergraduate and graduate music education courses and in charge of the music education student teachers. She is co-chair of the Cultural Diversity and Social Justice ASPA of SMTE and co-chair of the Education Section of the Society for Ethnomusicology. Prior to moving to the Central Texas area, Soto taught at the University of Idaho, as a middle school band director in South Texas, and taught general music to children in Kindergarten through sixth grade within the Seattle Public Schools.
Her research interests include cultural diversity in music education, bimusical sensibilities of children, world music pedagogy, children’s musical culture, and the study of regional musics of South Texas and Mexican music. Soto holds publications in Music Educators Journal, Journal of Research in Music Education, the International Journal of Ethnomusicology Studies of World Music and Dance Education, and the newest edition of Multicultural Perspectives in Music Education. Soto has created lesson plans on traditional Mexican music and Conjunto music that appear on the Smithsonian Folkways website. Dr. Soto has conducted clinical workshops in various musical genres of Mexico, regional Latin musical styles in the U.S., and promoted the use of Smithsonian Folkways archive in the public school classroom. She has presented her research at MENC, the College of Music Society, the Society for Ethnomusicology, the Asia-Pacific Symposium on Music Education Research, the International Society for Music Education, the International Conference on Cultural Diversity in Music Education and the College Music Society. She has created student and teacher workshops for the American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music exhibit at the Experience Music Project/Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle, WA and for the PBS documentary, Latino Music USA. |
