Lecture III in Music Education for the 21st Century: Intersections of Music and Culture

Led by Dr. Mary Goetze

Dr. Mary Goetze has long believed that performing music from diverse musical traditions can be a powerful way to gain insights into different cultures.  This belief led her on a twelve-year quest to bring music from around the world to life for students at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music.  She invited musicians from a wide variety of cultures to teach songs to her students, and she traveled widely, recording songs on video, later recreating them with her IU vocal ensemble.  In seeking to honor diverse cultural practices, she broke with Western vocal and methodological practices, coaching the singers to approximate the way songs are learned and sung within their culture of origin.  Out of this experience came a series of DVDs created for use in classrooms and choirs.  In this discussion, Dr. Goetze shares the lessons she learned about music, teaching, cultural explorations, and the impact these experiences had upon her students.

This event is free for all audiences!