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Recapitulation Theory (NAfME 2024 Poster)
I’ll be at NAfME in Atlanta to discuss a research project looking at recapitulation theory in early 20C music appreciation texts. For those who are curious, or if you attended the poster session,...
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Ukulele sing-along fun in Hong Kong
What I missed most during COVID was the ability to get together and play music with friends out in the world. I’m glad that finally this is ending, and that my students and me are gradually regrowing...
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My work on Sound Studies and Music Education
Here’s a short overview of my engagement with sound studies as a music educator in preparation for my participation in the virtual conference Sound, Meaning, Education: Conversations. I first learned...
View ArticleSome presentations and a strum
I presented for the NAfME History SRIG and also at the University of Mississippi History of Music Education conference this spring. I’m not too sure that making these presentations public is helpful,...
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Participatory Music in Japan (Orff Echo and Multimedia Journal of Music...
The Orff Echo recently published a short reflection I wrote on participatory music experiences from my family’s time in Japan (2014-17). I negotiated the right to post the final piece on my...
View ArticleAebersold Play-A-Long Media and the creation of the Beginning Improvisation...
Here’s a short presentation (minus the Q&A) from a talk I gave to a webinar at the Education University of Hong Kong on July 22, 2020. This draws on a larger history of Play-A-Long media as...
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Two participatory presentations (AMIS and in-class)
The recent Hong Kong unrest displaced some of my teaching, and in two instances I presented a talk in the absence of some of the students meant to be there, posting both online in a few places/formats...
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Old-time jam at a bike shop (Lexington, KY)
During a recent trip to the US, I had the wonderful pleasure of visiting an old-time session in Lexington, KY. The session is held at a bike shop that is also a cafe, and it was such a delight. There...
View ArticleOnline music lessons: a few exemplars
I teach a course in studio pedagogy at The Education University of Hong Kong. This spring, students in the course spent time identifying interesting or exemplary videos for learning piano or guitar....
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The Suzuki Method’s Mediated Pedagogy
The Journal of Research in Music Education has published “Learning with Sound Recordings: A History of Suzuki’s Mediated Pedagogy.” In it, I draw attention to the ways that Suzuki’s pedagogic...
View ArticleVocaloids and music learning
This week Koji Matsunobu and I will be sharing some preliminary work on vocaloids as a medium for music learning at the Asian Pacific Symposium for Music Education Research in Malaysia. Here are a few...
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Hong Kong street karaoke
[Note: Here’s a piece in the Hong Kong Free Press about the street that takes into account some of the behind the scenes licensing and political dimensions of this particular public space.] Here is an...
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The Education University of Hong Kong
Nearing the end of my wife’s visiting professorship in Japan, I’m delighted to share that our adventures in Asia will continue in Hong Kong. I will start work this summer as Associate Professor in the...
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Sound studies and music education
A fan cosplaying a Vocaloid in Japan, 2016. Photo by the author. The Journal of Aesthetic Education has published my overview of sound studies for those working in music education. I review the basic...
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Hacking a karaoke club for a New Year’s Jam
Who doesn’t love karaoke? Well, I do, but during my latest visit to a karaoke club in Tokyo the TV was off, the microphones were left in their holders, and the disco ball did not spin. Instead, a group...
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Japanese preschool art show
The drawings and paintings of students are a window into preschool life in Japan. These, from a local art show, are drawn from several schools. Marching band, trips to the ocean and the zoo, farming...
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Japanese participatory music: Ukulele sing-along
Singing and playing together is common in Japan, and the ukulele has become quite popular here. For the third year in a row, I took part in the Ukulele Welcome Party in Toyama, Japan. It takes time to...
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Anatomy of an origami frog
Yesterday, during a visit to an elementary school, a presenter from the city’s education bureau made a point about the complexity behind the simple act of making an origami frog. Showing the frog, he...
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Participatory music in Japan: Preschool marching band
Sports day, or undōkai (運動会), is a very important for participation and group cohesion. In Japan they exist at every school, and each neighborhood also has one in which people of every age participate...
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Sound studies and Suzuki at NAfME Atlanta 2016
Sound Recording at the Heart of Pedagogy: Suzuki’s Method in America Thursday, March 17, 8:30 a.m. (Augusta Room 3) This historical study examines the mediated pedagogic techniques of the Suzuki...
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