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Title: New Media Musicianship Lecture Add to Google CalendarAdd to Google Calendar
Date: Thursday, October 11, 2012 Export to ICSAdd to Other Calendars
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Address: Varner Hall Room 231
2200 North Squirrel Road
Rochester, MI 48309
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Contact Phone: (248) 370-2030
Contact Email: mtd@oakland.edu

Lecture by Alex Ruthmann, Assistant Professor of Music Education at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.Social media musicianship: Practices and implications for music education. In this talk, Alex Ruthmann will touch on 3 main themes: social media musicianship, harnessing DIY/Maker cultures and tangible media, and embracing 20th and 21st Century musical roles, such as audio engineer and producer. He'll show exemplars of inspiring practices and put forward a framework for a "relational pedagogy" where students, teachers, creativity, expression and engagement are at the center, mediated by technology.

Free. No registration required.


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