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Event: [http://bit.ly/m4ghd19s Music for Global Human Development in Africa] poster presentations in conjunction with the [https://www.facebook.com/events/442451243161882/ West African Music Ensemble concert performance]<br>
Research Dissemination Events: [http://bit.ly/m4ghd19s Music for Global Human Development in Africa] (Area Studies in Ethnomusicology: Africa; Music 472 (undergraduate level) and 582 (graduate level))
 
This seminar course centers on understanding music and other performance arts in Africa as a sustainable, scaleable, highly effective technology for maintaining vibrant, healthy societies, ensuring social cohesion, civil society, social justice, equality, multicultural and multigenerational connectivity,gender justice, ecological balance, community health, cultural continuity, and basic education.
 
Each student has designed a human development project involving Africa and African music, resulting in a descriptive poster presentation and presentations. These will be presented at two events:
 
1) A ''concert'' on March 30, 8pm, in Convocation Hall. Posters will be on display during the [https://www.facebook.com/events/442451243161882/ West African Music Ensemble concert performance] - featuring Ghanaian guest performers Mohammed Assau ([http:yhcg.net Youth Home Cultural Group], Tamale, Northern Region, Ghana) and Dr. [https://music.uoregon.edu/people/faculty/hiddrisu Habib Iddrisu] (University of Oregon), directed by course instructors Robert Kpogo and Wisdom Agorde.<br>
Date:  30 March 2019 <br>
Date:  30 March 2019 <br>
Place: Convocation Hall, University of Alberta, Edmonton AB Canada <br>
Place: Convocation Hall, University of Alberta, Edmonton AB Canada <br>
Poster displays: pre-concert to 10 pm (optimal viewing during intermission) <br>
Poster displays: pre-concert to 10 pm (optimal viewing during intermission) <br>
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2) A ''conference'', extending over three days -- April 2, 4, and 9 -- 3:30 - 5:00 pm, in Studio 27, Fine Arts Building
Tuesday April 2:
* Taekwan Yoon
* Jaehun Park
* Vicky Lin
* Ashley Weckesser
Thursday April 4:
* Jacob Park
* Daniel Park
* Jenny Phung
* Andrea Lui
Tuesday April 9:
* Earl Villado
* Angela Park
* Mehdi Rezania
* Biying Wu
* Nargis Asadi


Course: Music for Global Human Development in Africa (Area Studies in Ethnomusicology: Africa).
''See [http://cce.ualberta.ca/ map here].''
Music 472 (undergraduate level) and 582 (graduate level). This seminar course centers on understanding music and other performance arts in Africa as a sustainable, scaleable, highly effective technology for maintaining vibrant, healthy societies, ensuring social cohesion, civil society, social justice, equality, multicultural and multigenerational connectivity,gender justice, ecological balance, community health, cultural continuity, and basic education.


Each student has designed a human development project involving Africa and African music, resulting in a descriptive poster presentation. Posters will be on display during the West African Music Ensemble concert - featuring Ghanaian guest performers Mohammed Assau ([http:yhcg.net Youth Home Cultural Group], Tamale, Northern Region, Ghana) and Dr. [https://music.uoregon.edu/people/faculty/hiddrisu Habib Iddrisu] (University of Oregon).


Project titles:
'''Projects:'''


* Storytelling for Support: Community Support and Engagement for Substance Use Destigmatization, by Vicky Lin
* Storytelling for Support: Community Support and Engagement for Substance Use Destigmatization, by Vicky Lin

Revision as of 13:35, 28 March 2019

Research Dissemination Events: Music for Global Human Development in Africa (Area Studies in Ethnomusicology: Africa; Music 472 (undergraduate level) and 582 (graduate level))

This seminar course centers on understanding music and other performance arts in Africa as a sustainable, scaleable, highly effective technology for maintaining vibrant, healthy societies, ensuring social cohesion, civil society, social justice, equality, multicultural and multigenerational connectivity,gender justice, ecological balance, community health, cultural continuity, and basic education.

Each student has designed a human development project involving Africa and African music, resulting in a descriptive poster presentation and presentations. These will be presented at two events:

1) A concert on March 30, 8pm, in Convocation Hall. Posters will be on display during the West African Music Ensemble concert performance - featuring Ghanaian guest performers Mohammed Assau ([http:yhcg.net Youth Home Cultural Group], Tamale, Northern Region, Ghana) and Dr. Habib Iddrisu (University of Oregon), directed by course instructors Robert Kpogo and Wisdom Agorde.
Date: 30 March 2019
Place: Convocation Hall, University of Alberta, Edmonton AB Canada
Poster displays: pre-concert to 10 pm (optimal viewing during intermission)

2) A conference, extending over three days -- April 2, 4, and 9 -- 3:30 - 5:00 pm, in Studio 27, Fine Arts Building


Tuesday April 2:

  • Taekwan Yoon
  • Jaehun Park
  • Vicky Lin
  • Ashley Weckesser

Thursday April 4:

  • Jacob Park
  • Daniel Park
  • Jenny Phung
  • Andrea Lui

Tuesday April 9:

  • Earl Villado
  • Angela Park
  • Mehdi Rezania
  • Biying Wu
  • Nargis Asadi

See map here.


Projects:

  • Storytelling for Support: Community Support and Engagement for Substance Use Destigmatization, by Vicky Lin
  • Promotion of Musical Diversity and Preservation of Traditional Music through a Festival featuring Musical Fusion and Interpretation, by Taekwan Yoon
  • Promoting Hygiene Education in Ghana through World Music Workshops, by Mehdi Rezania
  • Social Transformation in Northern Ghana Primary Education using Music, by Jennifer Phung
  • Hygiene, Water Sanitation, and Cholera Prevention using Pedagogical Methods of Ethnomusicology within Ghanaian Schools and Communities, by Jaehun Park
  • Digital ART Adherence Reminder Network: Developing a Mobile App to Promote Collective Accountability and Connection among Individuals with HIV/AIDS in Ghana, by Jacob Park
  • Portable Music Classroom: Future of Music Education in Northern Ghana, by Earl Villado
  • Drums Across Cultures: A Rhythmical Exchange in the School System, by Daniel Park
  • Film Music——Traditional African Instruments, by Biying Wu
  • Educate and Embrace African Music by Integrating Western, Korean, and Ghanaian Musical Traditions Together, Angela Park
  • Bimoba Cultural Preservation through Language Promotion and Song Writing, by Andrea Lui
  • Anansi: A Video Game to Preserve Ashanti Music and Oral Tradition, by Ashley Weckesser
  • Instruments and Costumes Made From Recycled Materials Making South Africa Sustainable and Ecofriendly, by Nargis Asadi