jazz education conference report - challenges in jazz education

Challenges inJazz Education

byErling Aksdal

Head of Jazz Performance Programme, NTNU

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onsdag 17. oktober 12

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ABOUT US• Part of Norwegian University of Science and

Technology, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Music, Trondheim, Norway

• Jazz Programme established in 1979• Now BA, MA and Doctoral level performers in

National Fellowship Programme• Admit 8-15 students each year• About 400 alumni, many doing great• The Norwegian jazz scene is well organised

and funded both on national and regional levels


NTNU JazzBASIC QUESTIONS:

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• What is a jazz musician?

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• What is jazz education?

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• How does a jazz musician learn?

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• How does a jazz musician learn?

• How do we «educate» such a musician?

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NTNU JazzWHAT IS A JAZZ MUSICIAN?

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– Self taught (pedagogue of a kind)

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– Specialist in real time musical decision making

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– Specialist in real time interaction with other real time musical decision makers

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– Unemployed (no employer)

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– Unemployed (no employer)

– Without work (no market)

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NTNU JazzHOW DOES A JAZZ MUSICIAN LEARN?

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– Intense motivation (desire)

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– Listening («first language acquisition»)

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– Playfulness (gaining ownership of the musical material)

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– Playfulness (gaining ownership of the musical material)

– Peer-to-peer learning through hands on activities (not master-apprentice relation)

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NTNU JazzHOW DO WE «EDUCATE» SUCH A MUSICIAN?

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– Learning environment (more than instruction)

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– Coaching (more than teaching)

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– Emphasising pedagogy

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– Encouraging finding «your own voice»

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– Encouraging finding «your own voice»

– Training in entrepreneurship

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NTNU JazzWHAT ELSE?

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NTNU JazzWHAT ELSE?– The student is both the resource and the

product (human resource, human product)

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– There is no transferrable knowledge base (except the art itself), just another musician (Pedagogy is the exception to this)

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– Lifelong learning

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– Lifelong learning

– Copying to be «free» not to «sound like»

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NTNU JazzTHE CHALLENGES:

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NTNU JazzTHE CHALLENGES:– Demand for genre diversity

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– Historicism

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– Historicism

– The INI pedagogy

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– Historicism


– Innovation

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– Historicism


– Innovation

– The market

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– Historicism


– Innovation

– The market

– The concept of improvisation

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– Historicism


– Innovation

– The market


– Gender balance

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– Historicism


– Innovation

– The market


– Gender balance

– Technologywww.jazzlinja.no




NTNU Jazz

THE RESPONSIBILITIES:

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NTNU Jazz

THE RESPONSIBILITIES:It’s all about pedagogy

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NTNU Jazz


– Enabling students to learn to speak their own musical language with their own sentences in real time

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– Enabling students to learn to speak their own musical language with their own sentences in real time

– Enabling students to facilitate others’ learning the same

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Challenges inJazz Education

byErling Aksdal

Head of Jazz Performance Programme, NTNU

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jazz education conference report - challenges in jazz education

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