Exploring the Sonic in Music Teaching & Learning

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The field of Sound Studies has shifted how scholars in education and the humanities understand issues including culture, power, and knowledge. Continuing in that vein, this symposium features sound studies scholarship within music education. Four papers use the sonic as a lens to explore pedagogical, sociocultural, and epistemological issues in music education. The papers provoke considerations of topics including possibilities of sound in music education scholarship and practice, relations between auditory perception and sonic metaphors/pedagogical practice, histories of governing Others through sound, and implications of sonic storytelling for music teacher education. The symposium offers interdisciplinary provocations for reimagining music education through sound.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Music Education

Chair

• Walter S. Gershon, Rowan University

Papers

• Exploring Soniclifeworlds Across Disciplines and Abilities: Histories, Theories, and Models of Practice - jashen edwards, University of Guelph

• 'Back' to Perceptual Basics: Embodied Metaphors in Music/Sound Pedagogy - Rebecca Rinsema, Northern Arizona University

• Holding Sound: Interdisciplinary Pathways to Sound-Centered Teaching - Gabriela Ocadiz, University of Arizona

• Sound, Sensation, and Difference: Troubling Sonic Governance in Music Education - Noah Karvelis, Northern Arizona University

• Performatively Voicing the Political Educational Economies: What Studying Sound Can Do for and to Educational Researchers - Walter S. Gershon, Rowan University; Boni Wozolek, Pennsylvania State University - Abington

Session Organizer

• Noah Karvelis, Northern Arizona University

Discussant

• Walter S. Gershon, Rowan University