Letter to Participants
To: Participants in the 2018 Smithsonian Folkways certification course
in World Music Pedagogy
From: Patricia Shehan Campbell, Amanda Soto, and Christopher Roberts
Cc: Michiko Sakai
We are eager to meet you at the end of June at the 10th annual Smithsonian Folkways certification course in World Music Pedagogy. We will begin promptly at 8:30 AM in Room 35 (the “sub-basement”) of the UW School of Music, on Monday, June 25, and will have an intensive short-course ahead of us in which a grand variety of musical-cultural experiences and pedagogical techniques will be explored and examined. “We” constitutes a group of musician-educators from here and there, teaching music at various levels and in various contexts. Teaching faculty will join us, too, coming and going through the week, with opportunities for exchanges with them in and about music, culture, and pedagogical matters.
What do you need? Not much! Please bring the following, and we will supply the rest for a lively week of musical thought and action.
song/dance
B. getting together at Ivar’s, a local watering hole (Monday, at the end of the day’s sessions)
C. continuing discussions, as interested
**Please note that the course will be held in Rm. 35, which requires the ability to climb two flights of stairs. There is no elevator access to this part of the building. Please contact us if this will be an issue for you.**
You are headed to a certification course in World Music Pedagogy, conferred by Smithsonian Folkways in corroboration with the University of Washington. You will be developing competence in musical expressions from an array of the world’s cultures as well as pedagogical know-how in designing and delivering musical and cultural diversity to learners in various contexts. As you can, please consider a thoughtful read of pertinent world music pedagogy works, such as Patricia Shehan Campbell’s Teaching Music Globally, Patricia Shehan Campbell’s Music, Education and Diversity: Bridging Cultures and Communities (2018), and the World Music Pedagogy books (Volumes I-IV, 2018)) by Christopher Roberts and Amy Beegle, Karen Howard and Jamey Kelley, Mark Montemayor, Will Coppola, and Chris Mena, and Sarah Watts to confirm your experiences and provide you with further thoughtful considerations of world music pedagogy in practice.
We look forward to our time together on June 25! Please be in touch with Michiko Sakai michikos@uw.edu for any questions you may have.
Optional Meeting:
Monday, June 25, 2018
Evening Meet and Greet
5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Ivar’s Salmon House
401 NE Northlake Wa
Seattle, WA; 206-632-0767
http://www.ivars.com/index.php?page=locations_salmonhouse
in World Music Pedagogy
From: Patricia Shehan Campbell, Amanda Soto, and Christopher Roberts
Cc: Michiko Sakai
We are eager to meet you at the end of June at the 10th annual Smithsonian Folkways certification course in World Music Pedagogy. We will begin promptly at 8:30 AM in Room 35 (the “sub-basement”) of the UW School of Music, on Monday, June 25, and will have an intensive short-course ahead of us in which a grand variety of musical-cultural experiences and pedagogical techniques will be explored and examined. “We” constitutes a group of musician-educators from here and there, teaching music at various levels and in various contexts. Teaching faculty will join us, too, coming and going through the week, with opportunities for exchanges with them in and about music, culture, and pedagogical matters.
What do you need? Not much! Please bring the following, and we will supply the rest for a lively week of musical thought and action.
- Your musicianship (with attention to singing, playing, listening, dancing)
- Your positive energy and high enthusiasm
- Comfortable clothes (for when we get down on the floor, dance, and ‘game’)
- A laptop, notebook, or a tablet/smartphone (for taking notes, accessing Smithsonian Folkways and other websites)
- A recorder (instrument! although we also have some that can be sterilized)
- Optional: If you can easily bring an instrument easily (band or orchestral instrument, recorder, uke), please feel welcome to do so.
- Your lunch (or you can run out for the hour-long lunch); no refrigeration available
- Thoughts about “a favorite culture” whose music you’ve always wanted to know more about, to learn and to teach
- A general sense of what’s up on the Smithsonian Folkways website (have a glance at www.folkways.si.edu)
- Some open evening time:
song/dance
B. getting together at Ivar’s, a local watering hole (Monday, at the end of the day’s sessions)
C. continuing discussions, as interested
**Please note that the course will be held in Rm. 35, which requires the ability to climb two flights of stairs. There is no elevator access to this part of the building. Please contact us if this will be an issue for you.**
You are headed to a certification course in World Music Pedagogy, conferred by Smithsonian Folkways in corroboration with the University of Washington. You will be developing competence in musical expressions from an array of the world’s cultures as well as pedagogical know-how in designing and delivering musical and cultural diversity to learners in various contexts. As you can, please consider a thoughtful read of pertinent world music pedagogy works, such as Patricia Shehan Campbell’s Teaching Music Globally, Patricia Shehan Campbell’s Music, Education and Diversity: Bridging Cultures and Communities (2018), and the World Music Pedagogy books (Volumes I-IV, 2018)) by Christopher Roberts and Amy Beegle, Karen Howard and Jamey Kelley, Mark Montemayor, Will Coppola, and Chris Mena, and Sarah Watts to confirm your experiences and provide you with further thoughtful considerations of world music pedagogy in practice.
We look forward to our time together on June 25! Please be in touch with Michiko Sakai michikos@uw.edu for any questions you may have.
Optional Meeting:
Monday, June 25, 2018
Evening Meet and Greet
5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Ivar’s Salmon House
401 NE Northlake Wa
Seattle, WA; 206-632-0767
http://www.ivars.com/index.php?page=locations_salmonhouse
