The Impact of Technologies on Society, Schools, and Music Learning

2017 ◽  
pp. 276-290
Author(s):  
Valerie Peters
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Traditional Music ◽  
First Century ◽  
Music Culture ◽  
Professional Musicians ◽  
Rock Band ◽  
Music Making ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Impact

This chapter examines how music education can benefit from the use of new electronic tools and materials for music making that allow learners to combine their interests and prior understandings toward deepening their engagement in music. By exploring how rhythmic video games like Rock Band bridge the large chasm that exists between youths’ music culture and traditional music education; how inexpensive recording hardware and software such as Audacity and GarageBand have provided youth with opportunities to compose and perform as only professional musicians could in the past; and how software like Impromptu successfully engages youth in music composition and analysis by enabling users to create and remix tunes using virtual blocks that contain portions of melodies and rhythmic patterns, this chapter argues that twenty-first-century music education, with the help of new technology, has the potential for engaging greater numbers of young learners in authentic music making and performance.

Interest-Driven Music Education

2017 ◽  
pp. 190-202
Author(s):  
Kylie Peppler
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Music Composition ◽  
Traditional Music ◽  
First Century ◽  
Music Culture ◽  
Professional Musicians ◽  
The Past ◽  
Rock Band ◽  
Music Making ◽  
And Performance

This chapter examines how music education can benefit from the use of new electronic tools and materials for music making that allow learners to combine their interests and prior understandings toward deepening their engagement in music. This chapter puts forward a series of new examples that are transforming tradition music education, including rhythmic video games, like Rock Band, which can help bridge the large chasm that exists between youths’ music culture and traditional music education. In addition, inexpensive recording hardware and software such as Audacity and GarageBand have provided youth with opportunities to compose and perform as only professional musicians could in the past, uniquely shifting the professional recording and composition landscape. Other prominent examples include software like Impromptu, which successfully engages youth in music composition and analysis by enabling users to create and remix tunes using virtual blocks that contain portions of melodies and/or rhythmic patterns that allow one to understand music theory and composition at much younger ages. Collectively this work heralds a shift in twenty-first-century music education, which has the potential for engaging greater numbers of young learners in authentic music making and performance.

Globalization, Nationalism, and Music Education in the Twenty-First Century in Greater China

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wai-Chung Ho
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
First Century ◽  
Greater China ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
China Mainland ◽  
The Impact

Globalization, Nationalism, and Music Education in the Twenty-First Century in Greater China examines the recent developments in school education and music education in Greater China – Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan – and the relationship between, and integration of, national cultural identity and globalization in their respective school curriculums. Regardless of their common history and cultural backgrounds, in recent decades, these localities have experienced divergent political, cultural, and educational structures. Through an analysis of the literature, official curriculum documents, approved music textbooks, and a survey questionnaire and in-depth interviews with music teachers, this book also examines the ways in which policies for national identity formation and globalization interact to complement and contradict each other in the context of music education in respect to national and cultural values in the three territories. Wai-Chung Ho’s substantive research interests include the sociology of music, China’s education system, and the comparative study of East Asian music education. Her research focuses on education and development, with an emphasis on the impact of the interplay between globalization, nationalization, and localization on cultural development and school music education.

Gaming Musical Instruments

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-130
Author(s):  
Jan Torge Claussen
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Traditional Music ◽  
Musical Instrument ◽  
Game Studies ◽  
Sight Reading ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Video Recordings ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This article addresses the relationship between labour and learning a popular musical instrument like the guitar in the specific context of a video game. Most gamification theories promise that using a video game makes it easy to learn (Kapp 2012; Deterding et al. 2011). Even if this holds true, I argue that this kind of playfulness causes some backlash, which I observed during an experiment in which students played the music video game Rocksmith 2014. Learning and playing the guitar through the medium of a video game comes with diverse experiences as well as expectations that are closely related to the dichotomies between play and work, often discussed in game studies based on the famous texts by Johann Huizinga (2004) and Roger Caillois (1960). Learning any traditional music instrument requires much effort in several skill areas, for example, dexterity, hearing, sight-reading, and performance. In other words, it seems to be hard work and not at all playful like a video game. In this article, the various aspects of playful work and labourious play, found in both music education and guitar games, will be discussed against the backdrop of empirical findings including data from online interviews, research diaries and video recordings.

scholarly journals Vocal Education in Kazan: From Amateur Music Playing to Professional Training

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (SPE2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yulia Aleksandrovna Martynova ◽  
Dmitry Yevgenyevich Martynov ◽  
Alina Mikhailovna Sukhova ◽  
Leila Aivazovna Nurgalieva
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Music Teachers ◽  
Cultural Center ◽  
Professional Performance ◽  
Music Making ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Gathering Place ◽  
Xix Century ◽  
Historical Methods

The article is devoted to vocal education in Kazan as part of a general cultural process. Kazan as “a gathering place of two worlds – the Western and the Eastern”, was the leading music and cultural center. This city was simultaneously one of the largest provincial centers of Russian culture, and Muslim Tatar’s. During the XIX century in Kazan not only amateur music-making was actively developed but also were created music-public associations and private music teachers became widespread. The concert and performance in Kazan inevitably went through single phases and stages of development common to the whole country. Over time, amateur performance gives way to professional performance. The article is used a set of humanitarian and historical methods. The materials may be interesting for researchers of music education in Russia, as well as Russian provincial culture.

The ambivalence of becoming a small business: Learning processes within an aspiring rock band

Popular Music ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 585-599
Author(s):  
Tobias Malm
Keyword(s):  
Small Business ◽  
Music Education ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Organisational Form ◽  
Rock Band ◽  
Popular Music Studies ◽  
Music Making ◽  
The Social

The process of becoming a rock musician strongly relates to the organisational form of the band (Bennett 1980; Green 2002; Behr 2010). At all levels of ambition and success, membership of a band provides the musician with a natural entry point for performing to an audience and forging a potential career (Smith 2013a). The ‘micro-organisational’ (Bennett 2001) development of a band, therefore, is an important career prerequisite for rock musicians (Behr 2015). However, the social and practical challenges of musicianship seem to be continuously underemphasised within the field of popular music studies (Cohen 1993; Kirschner 1998; Lashua 2017; Weston 2017; Kielich 2018). Therefore, in this article I will focus on an aspiring rock band's informal learning processes in becoming a small business together. The study provides insights into the educational and organisational aspects of band practices and contributes to the fields of popular music, education and organisation studies – fields that are converging in the emerging interdisciplinary research area of ‘organising music-making’ (Beech and Gilmore 2015).

scholarly journals Personal Assistants for Human Organizations

2009 ◽  
pp. 514-540 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Okamoto ◽  
Katia Sycara ◽  
Paul Scerri
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Performance ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Intelligent Software ◽  
Personal Assistant ◽  
Active Research ◽  
Personal Assistants ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Impact

Intelligent software personal assistants are an active research area with the potential to revolutionize the way that human organizations operate, but there has been little research quantifying how they will impact organizational performance or how organizations will or should adapt in response. In this chapter we develop a computational model of the organization to evaluate the impact different proposed assistant abilities have on the behavior and performance of the organization. By varying the organizational structures under consideration, we can identify which abilities are most beneficial, as well as explore how organizations may adapt to best leverage the new technology. The results indicate that the most beneficial abilities for hierarchical organizations are those that improve load balancing through task allocation and failure recovery, while for horizontal organizations the most beneficial abilities are those that improve communication. The results also suggest that software personal assistant technology will facilitate more horizontal organizations.

scholarly journals Enlightenment of Confucian Thoughts of Music Education on Contemporary General Music Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-39
Author(s):  
Chenghai Yang
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Traditional Music ◽  
Traditional Education ◽  
Aesthetic Education ◽  
Quality Education ◽  
General Music ◽  
Music Culture ◽  
Continuous Development ◽  
Education Today ◽  
Education In China

In the pre-Qin period, Confucius proposed six subjects namely the etiquette, music, archery, driving, literacy, and calculation. Among the six subjects, music was ranked the second. Among them, traditional education in China can fully reflect the importance of music education, and the essence and core of music education can be reflected from the requirements of aesthetic education. In recent years, with the continuous development and improvement of production and life, the theme of education in today's society has changed, and quality education is the center and focus of education today. Moreover, people begin to focus on how to inherit and publicize the traditional music culture. As the music culture is of great importance, many people are encouraged to continue to practice and publicize the traditional music. The main point of this article is Confucian theory of music education.

scholarly journals Music Education as an Alternative Paradigm to Youth Empowerment: Evidence from Tertiary Institutions in South West of Nigeria

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Fadipe, David Olawole
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Music Education ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Youth Empowerment ◽  
Professional Musicians ◽  
Tertiary Institutions ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Private Investors ◽  
The Impact

Music education has been an integral part of national economic empowerment and development strategies in industrialized and developed nations globally, due to its impact on productivity, sustainability and economic development. However, the harness of youth‘s potentials through music education has not accelerated economic development in Nigeria. The study, therefore, seeks to investigate the impact of music education on youth empowerment. Purposive sample technique was adopted to select 10 academic staff members each from the five tertiary institutions that offering music education, totaling 50 participants as a sample size for the study. A structured questionnaire designed for the study was used to collect relevant information from the study’s participants. Data analysis was performed with the aid of mean, standard deviation and linear regression. The study establishes that music education is a driving force of youth empowerment. The study also confirms that inadequate funding of education and the poor state of infrastructural facilities are the major challenges that crippled music education in Nigeria. Subsequently, the study recommends that government, non-government organizations, renowned professional musicians and private investors should invest especially in music education. This will go a long way to empower young graduates with an array of skills for sustainable development.

The Case for Pop Ensembles in the Curriculum

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Patch
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Music Education ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Student Leadership ◽  
Music Programs ◽  
First Century ◽  
Applied Learning ◽  
Music Department ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Practical Experiences

Music programs should include pop pedagogy, a serious engagement with applied popular music, as they adjust their curricula for the twenty-first century. Pop pedagogy is relevant for pragmatic reasons of future employment and also to meet long-standing missions of higher education. Pop performance, arranging, and songwriting have implications beyond creating music professionals—they open a music department up to students who might never take classes otherwise, teach critical communication skills and civics, provide opportunities for student leadership and applied learning, and prepare skilled amateur musicians for lifelong engagement with music making. Through flipping the classroom and creating a rigorous atmosphere for students to engage with musics that they regularly listen to and participate in, pop ensembles augment the intellectual and practical experiences of students, diversify the curriculum, and keep music education relevant.

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