Ethno Music Gatherings (Book)

Pedagogy, Experience, Impact

Edited by Lee Higgins and Sarah-Jane Gibson

This book seeks to understand Ethno, a residential folk, world, and traditional music programme for young people that has been in existence for over 30 years. Three lines of enquiry guide the work, pedagogy and professional development, participant experience, and the impact it had upon those who attended. 24 b&w illus.

Category: Music
Series: Music, Community, and Education

Edition

This book presents key findings from a 4-year project that sought to understand Ethno Gatherings, an organized residential folk, world, and traditional music programme for young people aged 18-30. In response to three lines of enquiry, pedagogy and professional development, participant experience, and the impact it had upon those who attended, the authors examine the complexity of an Ethno music experience. By considering its history and current practices, the following themes are explored: non-formal music making, personal authenticity, holistic praxis, musical possible selves, intercultural music exchange, sustainability, social media engagement, song sharing, and future practices. Constructed through data drawn from participant observations, interviews, online social media analysis, onsite and video observations, surveys, and questionnaires the authors ask critical questions concerning Ethno’s history, ethos, pedagogy, and philosophical ideals. First held in Sweden in 1990, Ethno Gatherings are now located in over 40 countries worldwide and are part of JM Internationals youth music programmes. As a collection of integrated thought, the book’s purpose is to illuminate new understandings of what Ethno does to support its future growth and development.

Sarah-Jane Gibson is an ethnomusicologist who completed post-doctoral research into the Ethno programme in December 2022. She recently published her first monograph called Community Choirs in Northern Ireland: Re-imagining identity through singing. (July, 2023) which is based on her PhD research, completed in 2018 . Sarah-Jane has chapters forthcoming in ‘Teaching music Performance in Higher Education: exploring the potential of artistic research’ and the ‘Routledge Companion to Applied Musicology’. She regularly presents her research at international conferences, most recently being in November 2022 at the Society for Ethnomusicology conference in New Orleans where she spoke about Carbon Footprints and Sustainable Music practices. Sarah-Jane is also a singer, pianist and choral conductor. She has a background in music education having taught the music curriculum in Primary and Secondary schools in South Africa, the United States and England. She currently works as a music lecturer at York St John University, UK and is musical director for the Stamford Bridge Singers.

Professor Lee Higgins is the Director of the International Centre of Community Music based at York St John University, UK. He was the President of ISME (2016-2018) and the senior editor for the International Journal of Community Music (2007-2021). He was author of Community Music: In Theory and in Practice (2012, OUP), Thinking Community Music (2024, OUP), co-author of Engagement in Community Music (2017, Routledge) and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Community Music (2018).

Foreword

Magnus Bäckström

  1. Framing Ethno World & Ethno Research

Sarah-Jane Gibson and Lee Higgins

  1. Ethno pedagogy: Valuing one another through experiential learning

Andrea Creech, Maria Varvarigou, Lisa Lorenzino, and Ana Coric

  1. Playing with Tradition: Personal Authenticity and Discourses of Traditional Music-Making at Ethno World Gatherings

Laura Risk and Keegan Manson-Curry

  1. Music Making as Holistic Praxis

Dave Camlin and Helena Reis

  1. Ethno World as a site for developing and practising musical possible selves

Maria Varvarigou, Andrea Creech, Lisa Lorenzino, and Ana Čorić

  1. Marvelling at the Ethnoverse: Intercultural Learning through Traditional Music

Roger Mantie and Pedro Tironi

  1. Carbon Footprints and Intercultural Exchange: Ethno as Sustainable Practice

Sarah-Jane Gibson

  1. Ethno Online: An Analysis of Social Media Engagement on Facebook

Roger Mantie

  1. Sharing songs, shaping community: Revitalizing time-honored pedagogies at EthnoUSA

Huib Schippers

  1. Reconceptualizing Ethno? Perceptions of the Ethno Gatherings in Bahia, Malawi, and the Solomon Islands

Sarah-Jane Gibson

 

Bics
EDUCATION, MUSIC, SOCIETY & CULTURE: GENERAL
Bisacs
ART / Popular Culture, EDUCATION / Arts in Education, MUSIC / General
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