Musicking in the City: Reconceptualizing Urban Music Education as Cultural Practice

Autor/in	Gaztambide-Fernandez, Ruben A.
Titel	Musicking in the City: Reconceptualizing Urban Music Education as Cultural Practice
Quelle	In: Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 10 (2011) 1, S.15-46 (32 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1545-4517
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Social Justice; Music Education; Music Teachers; Urban Education; African Americans; Urban Areas; Cultural Influences; Popular Culture; Social Theories; Racial Factors + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Musikerziehung; Music; Teacher; Teachers; Musiklehrer; Stadtteilbezogenes Lernen; Afroamerikaner; Urban area; Stadtregion; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Popkultur; Gesellschaftstheorie
Abstract	Descriptions of the urban contemporary format remain strongly grounded on the assumption that it is based on musical styles associated with African Americans, such as R&B, soul, hip hop, rap, and reggae. Even for the most progressive educators, to speak of urban music is to refer to a narrow set of musical genres associated with the umbrella term "hip hop". In this article, the author briefly highlights the powerful role that the media has had in manipulating the symbolic content of the term "urban music" for profit. He suggests that music educators--particularly those working in "urban" classrooms and committed to social justice--need to work both with and against the prevailing narrow conception of the "urban" that shapes the way one thinks about both urban music and urban education. Drawing on insights from contemporary cultural and critical race theory, the author proposes an expanded definition of the urban as cultural practice, and points to the possibilities that such a framework might offer for a reconceptualization of urban music education. In order to do this, he moves deliberately between two different ways of framing urban music education, one that privileges "urban music" and another that privileges "urban education." Here, the author aims to juxtapose these two ways of theorizing urban music education as a way to rehearse a different performance of the urban in urban music education. (Contains 19 notes.) (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	MayDay Group. Brandon University School of Music, 270 18th Street, Brandon, Manitoba R7A 6A9, Canada. Tel: 204-571-8990; Fax: 204-727-7318; Web site: http://act.maydaygroup.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10