Fine Arts Research Lecture Series in Music

Informal Music Learning and Habitus Self-Transformation in a Canadian First Nations School
by Jennifer Lang, U of S & Ruth Wright, Western University

Wednesday, March 1, 7:30 pm
Quance Theatre, Education Building, U of S
FREE and open to the public.

In this presentation we present the principles of Lucy Green’s research regarding informal music learning and Musical Futures and discuss various contexts in which it has been applied to Canadian music education contexts within our own research. In particular, we examine the affordances offered by popular music and informal learning to the accumulation of pedagogical and musical capital (Wright 2014, 2015) by Aboriginal Canadian youth who have experienced a long history of educational marginalization (Cherubini, 2014) and exclusion by way of systemic inequality (Battiste, 2013). Within this setting, we consider the affordances for issues of democracy and inclusion in and through popular music based informal music learning and non-formal teaching. In particular we address the potential of informal learning of popular music in this context as a vehicle for positive habitus transformation. 

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