Culturally Responsive Teaching in a High School Percussion Ensemble

Validating Immigrant Identities
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-19347-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 110 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 283 g

Reihe: Routledge Focus on Music Education: Culturally Responsive Teaching

Culturally Responsive Teaching in a High School Percussion Ensemble: Validating Immigrant Identities addresses themes of immigration, identity, and culturally responsive teaching in music education using a deep case study of Brazilian samba music in the context of a high school percussion ensemble.

Through an in-depth ethnographic study of the World Percussion Ensemble at Somerville High School, Massachusetts, and how it was renovated by a progressive music program director, the author demonstrates how a program can respond to the cultures and needs of immigrant students by creating a unique intercultural community within the classroom. The book recognizes key components in the process of immigrant social integration: (1) music education can help facilitate immigrant students’ adjustment to a new culture as they negotiate a hybrid identity. (2) The inclusive nature of samba percussion music encourages communication, cooperation, and empathy, helping students to build life skills. (3) By blending rhythms from their countries of origin with a pop song of choice for their final composition, the students create their own interculture.

Deriving from culturally responsive music teaching practices, this study will inspire music teachers and music education researchers to transfer some of the methods to center students’ languages, identities, and cultural references in their curricula.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Athena-Blackwell, Christiana

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Weltmusik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Kunst, Musik, Theater (Unterricht & Didaktik)
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungswesen: Organisation und Verwaltung
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikinstrumente Schlaginstrumente
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikinstrumente Instrumentenunterricht & Lernanleitungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. The Setting: Introduction to The World Percussion Ensemble Classroom

Chapter 2. The Strategy: Saunders’s Visions for the Somerville Music Program

Chapter 3. The Story: Marcus Santos and Cultural Responsiveness in The World Percussion Ensemble

Chapter 4. The Experience: WPE Students in the Context of Immigration

Chapter 5. The Results: Impacts of Culturally Responsive Teaching in the World Percussion Ensemble

Chapter 6. The Implications: Transferring Methods from WPE to Other Music Education Programs

Über Autor(innen)

Christiana Athena-Blackwell is a music educator, ethnomusicologist, songwriter, and performer. Her research centers on themes of identity expression through music, and music of the African Diaspora in the Americas. Currently, she teaches music in Central Vermont, USA. She has an MA in Ethnomusicology from Tufts University and a PhD in Music Education from the Pennsylvania State University.