Pedagogies of the musical “other”
ethical considerations for educational contexts in the United States and Brazil
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World music pedagogy, Brazilian Armorial music, Teaching ethnomusicology, Music in higher educationAbstract
This article examines the politics and practice of teaching a music of which the teacher has no cultural ownership. The author proposes the consideration of the fraught concepts of authenticity, authority, representation, musicality, tokenism, and contextualization. While the study of many musics is as important as ever, particularly given efforts to decolonize music education at all levels, it is also a practice complicated by structures of power. The author uses his experiences teaching a Brazilian Armorial Orchestra at a university in the United States as a case study.
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