Publishing Student Work on the Web: The Living❂Music Project and the Imperatives of the New Literacy

  • Mark Clague University of Michigan
Keywords: music, pedagogy, instructional technology, learning technology, elearning, oral history, oral-history, living history, musicology, computers in music

Abstract

To be effective in enhancing learning in the music history classroom, technology must be applied judiciously toward specific goals. The Web presents opportunities to broaden and deepen the impact of traditional research assignments, primarily through online publication, which increases motivation and brings a host of thorny issues of representation and quality to bear upon student work. One such assignment is an oral history project the author has developed titled Livingâ‚Music in which students interview an informant involved with the music world (a concept akin to Howard Becker’s notion of “Art World”) and present their findings through the Livingâ‚Music website. In completing this work, students have the opportunity to grow on several levels: as historical researchers, as writers, as editors, and most importantly as readers and users of historical research. As a guided experience in original research and publication, Livingâ‚Music teaches students traditional skills in musicology, shares the joys of discovery and publication, and offers insights into the way the Web has augmented and shifted the character and values of publication itself.

Author Biography

Mark Clague, University of Michigan
Mark Clague, PhD, serves as Associate Professor of Musicology, American Culture, and African and AfroAmerican Studies at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance. His other writings concerning music history pedagogy appear as “Learning Technology in Music Classrooms: A Catalyst for Deeper Learning and Creativity,” in C. Conway and T. Hodgman’s Teaching Music in Higher Education (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 147–64 and “Real-World Musicology: Integrating Entrepreneurship throughout the Music Curriculum and Beyond,” in Disciplining the Arts: Teaching Entrepreneurship in Context, ed. Gary D. Beckman (New York: Rowman and Littlefield Education, 2011), pp. 167–76.
Published
2011-08-14
Issue
Vol 2 No 1: (Fall 2011)
Section
Roundtable

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