Intersections: Music, Tradition and Education

Información del libro

Coordinador: Jerry-Louis Jaccard, Hilda Mercedes Morán Quiroz

Serie: Antropología

Volumen: 27

Año: 2010

Resumen:

This is our responsibility, to choose the best food, the best spiritual food for the children. And you would say “Oh, it was easy in Hungary, because you collected fifty thousand songs in thirty years, and this was the material you have to use, but what can we do here in North America with this enormous large material from very different cultures and musical traditions with very different ways?”
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But certainly, you have to start in at least one community. There are certainly such communities like the African-American people, or like the Mexican people, the Spanish-speaking people or like the New England people —who have a very different tradition [from] such a close contact with England and the British Isles. So, this would certainly be the first step, to try to collect as much material as possible, because when people speak about folksongs, they are speaking about one typical song, one given song. For me, a folksong is not just one variant. The more variants we have, the more we are allowed to say “this is living material”. So please don´t sing just one example, try to sing variations, if you have twenty variations of a song, then you will be able to select what seems to be the most typical and the most beautiful. Again, you have to compare these twenty songs to twenty other songs, so it´s a very large and very, very heavy work for many people. But this would be the only way, I think, to follow the ideas of Kodály In North America.
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Maybe there are some other possibilities, but you should probably not miss putting together a great number of songs in order to be able to really say “this is typically American”, “this is typically North American”, “this is typically —I don´t know— Mexican”, or “this is typically Indian”, or whatever kind of song. Somehow, somebody, somewhere, should start to do such a work, and it certainly will take many, many years, and many, many people, but I think it would finally be of benefir for the North American cultures.
Lászlo Vikár

Palabras clave: Música, folfklore, educación, interculturalidad, identidad

ISBN: 978-607-450-317-3

ISBN colección: 978-607-571-947-4

¿Cómo citar?: Jaccard, J.-L., & Morán Quiroz, H. M. (coords.). (2010). ntersections: Music, Tradition and Education. Editorial CUCSH-UdeG.

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