Event overview
The Music of Philosophy: Music Education and Soundscape
"The Music of Philosophy: Music Education and Soundscape" presented by Professor Tadahiko Imada, from Hirosaki University, Japan
Abstract
Can we think musically and feel philosophically? The aesthetics of European music, fully developed by the nineteenth century, were essentially literary accounts wherein music was explained by language, on the assumption that language and its meaning was based on the Greek Philosophy proposed by such thinkers as Plato and Aristotle. Their doctrine the so-called mimesis was essentially literary accounts wherein music was interpreted and valued by words. Both Plato and Aristotle, therefore, assumed that language and its meaning was capable of explaining musical meaning and thus, was capable of accounting for musical understanding. This concept of European mimesis, however, isolated music from its innocent experience, and eventually created the separation of form and content in art (e.g., Sontag, 1990). This short talk will critique how this separation of form (as sonorous air) and content (story line) actually plays out in terms of the activity of creative music making, and examine its recommendations for music curriculum, referring to a “sound project” based on the concept of soundscape at Hirosaki University in Japan.
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Brief Biography
Tadahiko IMADA is Professor at Hirosaki University in Japan, teaching music education based on the concept of soundscape. He holds a BMus from Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo; an MA from Simon Fraser University where he studied as a recipient of the Government of Canada Award; and his PhD is from the University of British Columbia in Canada. Dr. Imada is author of The Music of Philosophy: Music Education and Soundscape (2015, Koseisha-Koseikaku), and co-author of A Little Sound Education (together with R. Murray Schafer, Tokyo: Shunjusha, 1996, 2009); Music Education Policy and Implementation: International Perspectives (co-edited with Chi Cheung Leung and Rita Yip, Hirosaki University Press, 2008) and The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Music Education (edited by Wayne Bowman and Ana Luca Fruga, Oxford University Press, 2012). Prior to joining the faculty at Hirosaki University, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at Roehampton Institute London in UK. He was Visiting Distinguished Professor at the University of Tennessee at Martin in the US in 2002. He has been appointed an International Advisory Board Member of British Journal of Music Education, Cambridge University Press since 2010. He translated Indirect Procedures: A Musician’s Guide to the Alexander Technique by Pedro de Alcantara into Japanese (Tokyo: Shunjusha, 2009).
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 19 Mar 2015 | 12:30pm - 1:30pm |
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