Experience Music Project conference
The Experience Music Project in Seattle, Washington, USA has announced a call for papers for their upcoming conference, "Waking Up from History: Music, Time and Place," with a deadline of December 15, 2006, with the conference taking place in April 2007.If you're in the area, the EMP also has a variety of educational opportunities for teachers and students, including a clearinghouse of lessons for K-12 classes and teacher trainings.
Any K-12 teachers who'd like to share how they use popular music in their classroom? My students and I had a great discussion this week about music, culture, and race, and I have found that music is often the area of popular culture that gets the most engaged response from students.
posted by jackie @ 10:31 AM
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I like to bring in music to help the students understand how poetry has come full circle. Beowulf was orginally sung, then poems were written down, and now they are sung again. You can talk to students about all the similarities to music and poems they have read.
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