Discussing Race and Racism in Music Education with Amy LewisWhen at Amy Lewis’s presentation we discussed the causal racist norms that are in today's music classrooms. We talked about understanding that racism is buried into a lot of common assumptions and views in music. Amy talked about how some of her teachers assumed she liked rap music because she was black for example, she also talked about encouraging having discussions about race in the classroom and that it's okay to be uncomfortable and to explore why something like this makes us uncomfortable and try and replace that with curiosity. I thought this was very enlightening because I am a white male and I am one of the least likely to be put in these kinds of stipulations today. I am always learning more about what is an expectation and what racism is buried in somebody's brain. Music Composition in the 21st Century ClassroomWhen in this session we talked about composing music in a non-traditional sense. We played a lot of games that involved music games that would be student composed pieces. One game was us being grouped up into 4 groups and we sang rhythms of state names that we picked in our group and then we did them in cannon. I thought this was a new and very casual way to compose and I was impressed that something like that went so smoothly because I never imagined that something like that would make sense or work but it did.
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