MATIAS RECHARTE
Matias Recharte is a second-year PhD student of Music Education at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on popular and traditional/folkloric tertiary-level music education and its relationship to issues of race, gender and class in Latin America. He is also a percussionist working in Toronto, most recently with Kune (Canadian Global Orchestra), a project of the Royal Conservatory.
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Doing Away with Music: 'Sound Education' and the Rhetoric of Cultural Production
In this paper I reflect on the consequences of eschewing “music” as the main focus of music education. In order to do so, I problematize two concepts crucial to traditional music education: appreciation and musicianship. Then I propose the notion of ‘sound education’ and the related terms listening and sound-making. I then frame these two terms within the concepts of cultural
production and ‘acoustemology’ as a way to redirect attention to the relationships between space and human and non-human beings as well as to the everyday symbolic practices and materials through which students make sense of themselves and of society.
production and ‘acoustemology’ as a way to redirect attention to the relationships between space and human and non-human beings as well as to the everyday symbolic practices and materials through which students make sense of themselves and of society.