Taylor Swifts new music is on YouTube. So you think of it as teachable material for your classroom? Probably not. But for some visionary teachers, pop culture is a useful tool that can help get students interested and engaged in learning, and some can offer resources for better understanding of certain musicology topics of interest. As music educators we are constantly re-evaluating our teaching approaches and techniques to find innovative ways to incorporate technology and how to engage students of today in and out of the classroom. How does one create a unique and interactive learning environment for students that could occur in and outside the classroom? Engaging and relating to students of today can be made possible, in the diverse field
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Founding member, Bear Witness blends powwow, electronic music, and dubstep to make the powwow culturally engaging and captivating. The Electronic powwow represents an emerging aesthetic exploring the tensions between city life and “Rez Life (Rez Life, an Indian’s journey through reservation),” between pop and traditional native culture – a dual identity shaped be decades; long migration from reservation and Canadian reservations to urban centers in a pattern that mirrors the Great Migration. Ethnomusicologists see A Tribe Called Reds’ approach to sampling native music as a form or repatriation. While some, the masses to the ethnomusicologists, may disagree with remixing traditional powwow music with contemporary clubs’ sounds, A Tribe Called Red is resonating with today’s …show more content…
This experience is accomplished by holding true to many core musical features or powwow music. The pulsing, unceasing dubstep beat the group uses mirrors the steady, central host drum that anchors powwow music. Unique syncopation, melody and vocals purposefully set off beat, and the rhythmic structuring allows the Tribe the right to carry their own heritage. These historical events of A Tribe Called Red are blending and engaging the Native youth and is anchoring within the pop culture. In this way, A Tribe Called Red connects Native and non-Native fans alike with a rich, diverse, living, dancing culture. Never designed to be inclusive of indigenous people, The Electronic powwow is for everyone. A Tribe Called Red, finding a way to educate and connect to people to their history, and world
Founding member, Bear Witness blends powwow, electronic music, and dubstep to make the powwow culturally engaging and captivating. The Electronic powwow represents an emerging aesthetic exploring the tensions between city life and “Rez Life (Rez Life, an Indian’s journey through reservation),” between pop and traditional native culture – a dual identity shaped be decades; long migration from reservation and Canadian reservations to urban centers in a pattern that mirrors the Great Migration. Ethnomusicologists see A Tribe Called Reds’ approach to sampling native music as a form or repatriation. While some, the masses to the ethnomusicologists, may disagree with remixing traditional powwow music with contemporary clubs’ sounds, A Tribe Called Red is resonating with today’s …show more content…
This experience is accomplished by holding true to many core musical features or powwow music. The pulsing, unceasing dubstep beat the group uses mirrors the steady, central host drum that anchors powwow music. Unique syncopation, melody and vocals purposefully set off beat, and the rhythmic structuring allows the Tribe the right to carry their own heritage. These historical events of A Tribe Called Red are blending and engaging the Native youth and is anchoring within the pop culture. In this way, A Tribe Called Red connects Native and non-Native fans alike with a rich, diverse, living, dancing culture. Never designed to be inclusive of indigenous people, The Electronic powwow is for everyone. A Tribe Called Red, finding a way to educate and connect to people to their history, and world