Cross Currents: Setting an Agenda for
Music Education in Community Culture
Proceedings of a Colloquium in Music Education
The Performing Arts Library of the University of Maryland, College Park is pleased to announce the publication of the second title in its "State-of-the Arts Series," Cross Currents: Setting an Agenda for Music Education in Community Culture, edited by Marie McCarthy. Renowned ethnomusicologist Bruno Nettl comments as follows about Cross Currents:
This group of papers makes an unusually strong contribution to the understanding of issues that emerge from recent developments in American society, from current music history, and from changed understanding of the world of music, the musics of the world. It provides stimulating reading for all who are interested in the future of music education and of American musical culture.
Cross Currents is a publication of the proceedings of the second Colloquium in Music Education held at the University of Maryland on April 22, 1995. This series is intended to be the print equivalent of a recurring forum among artists, educators, and policy-makers. The colloquium examines many of the complex issues surrounding current multicultural education in music. A new model to consider for multicultural education, the Concentric Circles Music Model, is presented by Patricia Shehan Campbell in her keynote address, "Music, Education, and Community in a Multicultural Society." In this model she places the teacher at the center surrounded by circles of knowledge coming from diverse sources including one's musical heritage, training and experience, and community and regional outreach. This model is contextualized within the current directions of multicultural music education. She compares her model to two current curricular ones--the Multicultural Music Model and the World Music Model.
Through the vehicle of the colloquium three scholars offer a valuable contribution to the ongoing discussion of the issues surrounding education and mulitcultural communities. Susan R. Wolf (philosopher), Michael L. Mark (music educator) and Paddy B. Bowman (folklorist) address Campbell's innovative ideas and offer insight into her music model, each from a different perspective. Wolf examines the concept of a fixed canon and replaces it with the idea of the "ever-revisable canon." Mark explores the redefinition of policy-making for the future and its effect on not only the curriculum, but the national community as well. Bowman emphasizes the value of identity exploration with students to bring out their "musical universe."
Marie McCarthy, as editor, synthesizes the discussion at the colloquium which focused on each circle of the model and reports on the expansion of the circles to include the student. She highlights the issues which emerged as critical to the future direction of multicultural music education by the participants.
83 pages. ISBN 0-9655233-0-6
To order a copy of Cross Currents, please send a $12.00 check or money order, along with instructions for mailing, to:
Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library/SCPA
University of Maryland
2511 Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
College Park, MD 20742
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