World Music with Smithsonian Global Sound©, and The Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts™
Course Number: MU ED 497CDates: July 9–12, 2008
Times: 9:00 a.m.–noon and 1:00–4:00 p.m.
Credit: 24 hours of instruction = 2 credits, or 24 Act 48 hours
Location: TBD
Enrollment: cap 40; estimate 10–15
Description: Smithsonian Global Sound© (SGS) has been dubbed by The New York Times as “the ethnographic alternative to iTunes” and encompasses 35,000 tracks of world music, streaming from the Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology in India, the International Library of African Music in South Africa, and the nine record labels of the Smithsonian Folkways collections. The collection also includes prodigious liner notes, feature articles, multimedia shorts, and powerful search tools.
This workshop, presented in conjunction with the Smithsonian Global Sound© teacher network, will offer a hands-on approach to creating lesson plans and activities for K–12 music classrooms, using the SGS archive. Created to coincide with The Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts™, this course will give the participants an opportunity to study musical styles and genres from the SGS collection and then attend the Arts Festival to enjoy live performances. Teachers who attend this workshop will receive 2 university credits or 24 Act 48 hours. In addition, the participants will earn a Certificate in the Teaching of World Musics from the Smithsonian Institute.
Faculty
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Ann Clements, assistant professor of music education at Penn State, received both a doctorate and a master’s degree in music education from the University of Washington (Seattle), and a bachelor’s degree in music education from the University of Puget Sound.
An active researcher and clinician, Clements has directed ensembles and given presentations throughout the United States and in New Zealand, Japan, Australia, and Canada. She has been published in the Journal of Research in Music Education (JRME), Journal of Research in the New Zealand Performing Arts, General Music Today, The Mountain Lake Reader, and the International Society for Music Education Pacific Region Proceedings. She is a contributing author to the textbook series Making Music (Scott Foresman/Silver Burdett) and The Choral Cookbook (Meredith Music), a Hal Leonard publication.
Atesh Sonneborn, associate director of Smithsonian Global Sound©
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