World Forum on Music
3WFM Session IV
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- Tuesday, 24 November 2009
3rd IMC WORLD FORUM ON MUSIC
Tunis, October 17-22, 2009
Session IV: MUSIC EDUCATION FROM ADVOCACY TO PRACTICE
The challenge of creating and managing a global network and partnership system
Convenor and chairperson of this session: Professor Liane Hentschke
In recent years, there has been a weakening of policies supporting music education around the world which, in a sense, resulted into a significant shift on the arguments used by music educators to convince governments and policy makers of the value of music education. If in the past, music seemed to be taught for its own sake, for its intrinsic values, nowadays advocacy statements are mostly directed to convince governments, parents, policy makers who need to have a clear rationale on why to spend time and money for music education provision in schools. Thus, statements such as music education helps to reduce violence among adolescents, music is an important tool for cultural diplomacy, music education fosters brain development, helps to stop the spreading of aids, among others, have been used in many parts of the world. With education becoming a international commodity, and education institutions seen as knowledge delivers, music is not always seen as a subject that can help students to build a professional career and/or to have good jobs opportunities in the future. In a majority of countries, music is not part of the official curriculum, and in many cases forming either a small part of the arts education subject, or as a cross-disciplinary subject, acquiring a subservient role in relation to other school subjects. There has been a number of national and international conferences and seminars where professionals are discussing issues related to global advocacy, policy development for music education and the establishment of local and international partnerships. Most of them seem to be working within their geographical area. Internationally speaking, little discussion has taken place on the need to find out more about how different parts of the world deal with all those issues in a true global perspective, through cross national or cultural gathering of data that could support our claims of the value of music education. Further there seems to be a need to construct networks that would enable professionals and institutions to work on knowledge transference and cross feritlization between the economically poor and the rich regions around the world. As a way to address the above issues, this session aims to set up a discussion forum on how to think music education globally in relation to the main themes: advocacy, policy development, and network and partnerships and changing paradigms in music education practice.
ADVOCACY: How to build advocacy cases that take into consideration the role and status of musical phenomena within specific contexts? How can it be communicated to generate actions towards improving music education provision?
POLICY DEVELOPMENT: What are the new educational priorities after the global economical crisis. How can international organizations (ISME, IMC, UNESCO) work closely with governments and educational policy developers.
NETWORK AND PARTNERSHIPS: What is the role of private and public partnerships on global delivering of music education? Is it possible to build a global network of partnerships with different sectors such as, national governments, supra-national organizations, Universities, national and regional music education associations, the third sector, and the industry?
PARADIGMS OF MUSIC EDUCATION: Global communication has enabled music educators to rethink their educational standpoint under the light of a myriad of musical and pedagogical practices. Issues of formal and informal music learning, identity and autenticity are becoming some of the issues which music educators have to face when devising a curriculum. Some related questions would be: Can a specific music education experience travel across culture? What are the contextual implications of importing a specific project of examplary of good practices from other countries and/or cultures?
ADVOCACY AND POLICY DEVELOPMENT CASES:Exemplary of succesful advocacy and policy development in music education in different parts of the world It is desirable that each speaker addresses the above themes having in mind ways in which the international community of music educators can work towards securring music education opportunities for children and adolescents in school age across the world.
Liane Hentschke
PROGRAMME OF THE SESSION
Introduction: Dr. Liane Hentschke (Brazil)
Music education advocacy on an international perspective
Dr. Wayne Bowman (Canada) (paper)
Advocacy for policy development for music education
Dr. Richard Letts (Australia) (paper)
Global network partnerships in music and arts education
Dr. Samuel Lee (South Korea) (paper)
New Paradigms in Music Education
David Price (UK) (paper)
Advocacy and policy development cases
Dr. Emily Akuno (Kenya) (paper)
Discussion Project presentations
Dr Wouter Turkenburg (International Association of Schools of Jazz) (paper)
Conductor Alejandro Iglesias Rossi (Argentinean Music Council-CAMU) (presentation)
3WFM Session III
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- Tuesday, 24 November 2009
3rd IMC WORLD FORUM ON MUSIC
Tunis, October 17-22, 2009
Session III: RIDING THE DIGITAL TIGER
New developments in digital distribution and the shake-out of the music industry
Convenor and chairperson of this session: Peter Rantasa
Since more than a decade, the forces of the “digital revolution” have changed the shape of the music business. One the one hand, more music than ever before is accessible for listeners with direct access to the Internet or via mobile phone, internet cafes or public libraries. Social networks, various locally and internationally available online-shops and new subscription services became the new gateways for the diversity of music. Long gone “Back catalog”, music of new talents, self-promoted artists as well as of amateurs in all genres are made available and have in common, that they are not backed by heavy marketing budgets of big companies. On the other hand, the size of the global music market has dramatically shrunk. In many countries, record stores, distributors and record labels are dying and musicians do not find an environment of support. National and international cultural policies are challenged to find answers to the challenges caused by this vast and fast change but have not forecome with conclusions or sufficient actions.
In the last World Forum on Music we have discussed the legal implications and the impact on copyright and authors rights law. This time we look at the practical situation of music businesses and the artists and creators. After an introduction that will outline the interdependency of technological change, economics and aesthetics (Peter Rantasa, IMC) we will hear about the quest of independent record companies to find remuneration for their repertoire and artists (Charles Caldas, Merlin), the challenge for music export and the experiences of a digital aggregator (Michelle Amar, IODA) and the new possibilities for online self-marketing artists around the globe to find an international audience (Manfred Lappé, ReBeat).
PROGRAMME OF THE SESSION
Peter Rantasa (IMC): introduction
Charles Caldas (Merlin, UK) (paper)
Michelle Amar (IODA, USA) (paper and powerpoint)
Manfred Lappé (ReBeat, Austria) (paper)
Project presentations:
Scott Simon (USA): The use of libraries as a setting for music performances and music education (paper and powerpoint)
Thomas Dayan (FIM):
a) Field experience: how to best involve and remunerate the various players of the distribution chain in African countries, from artists to resellers? b) Online uses of recorded performances: innovative models for a fair remuneration of musicians
Richard Letts (Australia): Think tanks for music future (paper)
Wouter Turkenburg (IASJ): Fair music (paper)
3WFM Session on Tunisian Music
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- Tuesday, 24 November 2009
3rd IMC WORLD FORUM ON MUSIC
Tunis, October 17-22, 2009
Tunisian music and Musics in Tunisia: converging and distinctive aspects
Convenor and chairperson: Prof. Mohamed Zinelabidine
On musical diversity in Tunisia
The various perspectives offered in the communications to follow will aim at explaining the plural modalities of a prospering music in Tunisia, rich of a history extending over three millennia. Can we thus speak about Tunisian music or rather about music in Tunisia? What exactly can authenticate its languages, verbs, dialects, sounds and timbres that vary from one little geographical place to the other, from a history that this place owns to another, moderating if needed the degree and order of the secular, sacred, classical, traditional, popular, contemporary, modern, inter-musical… So much and so little to define truthfully the diverse music in Tunisia, whose wealth and definition unveil a multiplicity of forms, genres and structures that define this country. A country that is anchored in history, influenced by converging identities of the Western Mediterranean world, the Maghreb, the Arab culture, the Islam; being at the crossroads of exchanging and sharing, giving and taking the sense and the essence of the human existence. It is in this spirit that the speakers will attempt to seize, from their point of view, the immense wealth of the musical tradition in Tunisia, taking into account both its multiple references and its singular mark.
Mohamed Zinelabidine
Anis Meddeb: Tunisia during Antiquity: the findings of musical archaeology
Samir Becha: Musical diversity in Tunisia between interculturalism and cultural integration, the example of lyric art in Tunisia (1856-1998)
Fethi Zghonda: Music and ritual in Tunisia: the example of the Sulamiyya
Lassaad Zouari: Tunisian music between Orient and Maghreb influences
Mohamed Gouja: On musical diversity in Tunisia: historical and geographical perspectives
Fakher Hakima : Tunisian music and interculturalism : the example of jazz
Khaled Slama : Tunisian music at the beginning of the 21st c. : New forms of composition and writing
Lassaâd Kriaâ: Evolution of musical systems in Tunisia - historical and comparative persepctive
3rd WFM session I
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- Wednesday, 18 November 2009
3rd IMC WORLD FORUM ON MUSIC
Tunis, October 17-22, 2009
Session I: SUPPORTING MUSICAL DIVERSITY
How UNESCO, governments and music organisations are implementing (or obstructing) the UNESCO Convention for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions
Convenor and chairperson of this session: Richard Letts
The UNESCO Convention for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions has come into force with ratifications, at the time of writing, from 100 countries. Considering its uncertain gestation, the near-unanimous vote at the UNESCO General Conference and the subsequent rapid adoption by national governments is very gratifying. The initial motivation was to create an international instrument to protect the rights of national governments to support cultural activities without constraints enforced by international free trade agreements. However, now the Convention is in force, attention is turning much more to its other objectives to support cultural diversity within national borders, cultural development especially in developing countries, and international cultural exchanges.
In this session we will hear about UNESCO initiatives to implement the Convention, from the experience of Jukka Liedes from the Finnish Ministry of Culture and Education, who has had an insider's view, from Garry Neil who as Director of the International Network for Cultural Diversity is an outside observer and activist, and from IMC Secretary-General Silja Fischer, who will briefly summarise IMC's official interventions.
Timothy Maloney and Mohamed Zinelabidine will tell us about long-standing policies of multiculturalism and encouragement of diversity in their respective countries, Canada and Tunisia. Ole Reitov of Freemuse will describe how ineffective visa systems of some EU countries contravene the Convention.
In music, one of the great concerns is the survival and revitalisation of traditional musics. The IMC has entered into a partnership to discover and describe projects across the world that have been successful in returning traditional musics to everyday life. The project plays an important role in the International Music Council's Music Sector Development Program. The IMC is the senior non-academic partner in this five-year project, led by the Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre, Brisbane, with seven universities on five continents, the Music Council of Australia, and funding from the Australian Research Council. Myfany Turpin is here to describe this project.
Finally, we hear from three IMC member organisations about projects that promote the objectives of the UNESCO Convention: Adépo Yapo, from the Ivory Coast, about a three-nation collaboration to support the instrument, the balophon; Valentina Frenot-Diaz from Paraguay, about a collaborative project of IMC national music councils to provide multicultural music resources to Latin-American children; and Wouter Turkenburg about the processes by which the Netherlands government has come to grips with the Convention.
Richard Letts
PROGRAMME OF THE SESSION
Introduction
Dr Richard Letts (paper)
ACTIVITIES AT INTERGOVERNMENTAL LEVEL
The UNESCO convention implementation processes (1)
Jukka Liedes (paper), Director, Division for Cultural Policy, Ministry of Education and Culture. Finland
The UNESCO convention implementation processes (2)
Garry Neil (paper), Director of the International Network for Cultural Diversity, an NGO with a deep involvement in the gestation, adoption and subsequent progress of the Convention. Canada.
IMC's advocacy of the Convention
Silja Fischer (paper), Secretary General of the International Music Council. France
Questions and discussion
GOVERNMENTS AND MUSICAL DIVERSITY
The Canadian government's policy of support to multiculturalism
Dr Timothy Maloney (paper - PPT presentation), has had a long civil sector involvement in Canadian cultural life. He is currently Music Librarian at the University of Minnesota. Canada
Official policies concerning multiculturalism in Tunisia and the Arab world
Dr Mohamed Zinelabidine, Director, City of Culture, Tunis. Tunisia
Breaching the Convention: how European countries are denying visas to touring musicians from the developing world
Ole Reitov (paper), Programme Manager, Freemuse, Denmark
Questions and discussion
REVITALISING TRADITIONAL MUSICS
Sustainable Futures: templates for the revitalization of traditional musics
Dr Myfany Turpin (paper) is the Research Officer for this multinational project. Australia.
Questions and discussion
IMC MEMBER ORGANISATIONS PROJECTS IN SUPPORT OF MUSICAL DIVERSITY
International festival and competition for the balophon
Players come from Cote d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Senegal and Mali to Sikasso, Mali to perform on the traditional instrument, the balophon
Adépo Yapo is Director for Cooperation and Research of the Regional Cultural Action Centre in Lomé (Togo) Côte d'Ivoire
Teaching diverse music to Latin American school children
A multinational collaborative project providing teaching materials on Latin American musics to Latin American children
Valentina Diaz Frenot (paper) is President of the Paraguay Music Council and member of the IMC Executive Board. Paraguay
The Netherlands government finds its response to the Convention
Wouter Turkenburg (paper) is Executive Director of the International Association of Schools of Jazz and Past Chairman of the European Music Council. Netherlands
Questions and discussion covering the entire session
3rd WFM programme
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- Friday, 28 August 2009
3rd IMC WORLD FORUM ON MUSIC
Tunis, October 17-22, 2009
The Forum programme - Session by session
3rd WFM musical events
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- Friday, 28 August 2009
3rd IMC WORLD FORUM ON MUSIC
Tunis, October 17-22, 2009
MUSICAL EVENTS AROUND THE FORUM
Artistic Programme for Forum participants - day by day
October 16:
“Mezmoum” by Kamel Ferjani (pieces from traditional Tunisian repertoire composed in the “mazmoum” mode (corresponding in its scale to F Major)
Venue: Ennejma Ezzahra Palace in Sidi Bou Saïd
October 18:
Zohra Lajnaf and her ensemble: Bedouin chants from Southwest Tunisia Chants of the brotherhood "Awaméryia" (Sfax)
Venue: Sidi Bou Saïd
October 19:
Mohamed and Béchir Gharbi, oud and violin duo (with own compositions and works chosen from the Tunisian and Arab heritage) and the instrumental ensemble “Ranim” performing Tunisian music (instrumental music as well as Tunisian and Arab chants from the classical and modern repertoire)
Venue: Sidi Bou Saïd
October 20
Symphonic concert and lyric chants, with the participation of young violinist Yasmine AZAÏEZ
Venue : Théâtre de la ville, Tunis
October 21:
(highlight of the artistic programme)
Liturgical music concert “Al-Hadhra” (literally speaking, a session of liturgical chants and danses). This performance by the talented Samir Agrebi has been staged at the International Karthago Festival where it met a great success both among the public and the media. The artist links the authenticity and elegance of an art that is very present in Tunisian tradition, with a successful stage adaptation.
Venue: Théâtre de la ville, Tunis
October 22:
Tunisian "malouf » chants performed by the Rachidiya Ensemble. (Rachidiya is an association promoting Tunisian traditional music.) With the participation of the prodigy of this musical genre : Zièd GHARSA
Venue : "Dar Hussein" palace situated in the old part of Tunis (seat of the National Heritage Institute)
Duration of the concerts: 75 minutes, except for the concerts at the Théâtre de la Ville which will last 90 minutes
MUSIQUAT
The Festival MUSIQUAT (Musics) will be staged from October 8 to 24 by the Arab and Mediterranean Music Centre in Sidi Bou Said. On the programme, music from Turkey, Hungary, Tunisia, Algeria, Bangladesh, Portugal, Mongolia, India, Afghanistan, Argentina, Syria and Spain. The detailed programme will be published soon. Concert tickets are free of charge for Forum participants during the Forum on condition that they are booked 48 hours in advance at the Forum welcome desk in the conference hotel.
Musical October
organised by the Acropolium de Carthage under the patronage of the Ministry of Culture and Heritage Preservation
1/10 Les jeunes voix de l'Opéra de Tunisie
03/10 Quintette "Villa-Lobos" (Brésil)
06/10 Quatuor "Smetana" (République Tchèque)
08/10 Récital de piano (Pologne)
10/10 Manuel Guillén, violon & Jesùs Garcia, piano (Espagne) Duo piano- violon (Canada)
15/10 Isabelle Faust, violon (Allemagne)
16/10 Ayano Shimada, piano & Ryoko Yano, violon ('Japon)
17/10 Trio Rubinstein (USA)
18/10"La Confraternita de Musici" (Italie)
20/10 "Matangui Quartet" (Pays Bas)
21/10 Laura Mikkola, piano (Finlande), Nacir Chemma, Luth & Yasmine Azaiez, violon (Iraq, Tunisie)
24/10 Ensemble vocal d'Aquitaine (France) Helmut Ascherl & Karl Elschinger, piano (Autriche)
3rd WFM general info
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- Tuesday, 14 July 2009
3rd IMC WORLD FORUM ON MUSIC
Tunis, October 17-22, 2009
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3rd WFM venue
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- Wednesday, 08 July 2009
IMC 3rd WORLD FORUM ON MUSIC
Tunis, October 17-22, 2009
CONFERENCE VENUE
All Forum events, except for the concerts, will take place at the splendid Karthago Le Palace Hotel in Gammarth (northern suburbs of Tunis). The Karthago Le Palace Hotel offers 5-star comfort as well as a top-level equipped convention centre which should cater to all our needs.
The Hotel is located some 20 minutes from the airport and 30 minutes from the centre of Tunis.
Complexe Cap Gammarth
BP 86 2078
La Marsa
Les Côtes de Carthage
Tunisie
Tel. +216 71 910 000
Fax :+216 71 911 442 / +216 71 911
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