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Thank you Royal for this acknowledgment.
The subject is Ethnomusicology, which means, the study of music in its cultural context and, as a social process (in order to understand not only what music is but why it is: what music means to its practitioners and audiences, and how those meanings are conveyed).
Thus, my job is to teach my university students the origins of music in a socio-historical and socio-cultural context from its antecedents and genealogy...
My Masters thesis was on brain and heart trauma's effects on musicians and its audiences..
My PhD examined African American socio-cultural norms in the creation and expression of jazz music and contrasted it with how non-whites express jazz....
The results were very drastic in contrast...
African Americans use all the arts (dance, poetics, theatrics, visual) in their understanding and expression of jazz...
All the non African Americans in my study, unfortunately treated jazz as a codified art form and learned it in a wrote manner— unfortunately this presents a dichotomy...
The African Americans who don't have the proper designation but are fluent in this music, cannot teach in Universities, and the non African Americans who learned this music the wrong way, have written literature on how to play this music and claim to be experts. Thus, our post-secondary school systems are replete of these individuals...
As a current professor in music studies, I am trying to bring back old world paradigms to music by using the original methodologies of these great men and women of the past.
The subject is Ethnomusicology, which means, the study of music in its cultural context and, as a social process (in order to understand not only what music is but why it is: what music means to its practitioners and audiences, and how those meanings are conveyed).
Thus, my job is to teach my university students the origins of music in a socio-historical and socio-cultural context from its antecedents and genealogy...
My Masters thesis was on brain and heart trauma's effects on musicians and its audiences..
My PhD examined African American socio-cultural norms in the creation and expression of jazz music and contrasted it with how non-whites express jazz....
The results were very drastic in contrast...
African Americans use all the arts (dance, poetics, theatrics, visual) in their understanding and expression of jazz...
All the non African Americans in my study, unfortunately treated jazz as a codified art form and learned it in a wrote manner— unfortunately this presents a dichotomy...
The African Americans who don't have the proper designation but are fluent in this music, cannot teach in Universities, and the non African Americans who learned this music the wrong way, have written literature on how to play this music and claim to be experts. Thus, our post-secondary school systems are replete of these individuals...
As a current professor in music studies, I am trying to bring back old world paradigms to music by using the original methodologies of these great men and women of the past.
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Thats great CMh210... Always a pleasure to find out that people you have spoken to on a forum are also fellow educated musicians...
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Wow, thats some cool work. Do you mean that they claim to be experts in both playing the music as well as teaching it's history and theory?
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Thanks Royal...
Yes this is my claim- spot on- my research has shown that the non African American philosophy of what jazz is about and how it was learned has been overlooked by these non African American professors and professional players...
Conversely, non African Americans who grew up hanging around in African American
" black" music culture/ environments ( yes there were quite a few- Gene Krupa, Red Rodney, George Shearing, Bix Beiderbecke, Benny Goodman , Artie Shaw, Etc.), knew what the music was about, and thus had musical literacy in these African American idioms ( in my study, it was traditional jazz music)
Yes this is my claim- spot on- my research has shown that the non African American philosophy of what jazz is about and how it was learned has been overlooked by these non African American professors and professional players...
Conversely, non African Americans who grew up hanging around in African American
" black" music culture/ environments ( yes there were quite a few- Gene Krupa, Red Rodney, George Shearing, Bix Beiderbecke, Benny Goodman , Artie Shaw, Etc.), knew what the music was about, and thus had musical literacy in these African American idioms ( in my study, it was traditional jazz music)
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