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Record #:
27718
Author(s):
Vitiello, Chris
Abstract:
The Beat Making Lab is a winner of the 2014 Indie Art Awards. The UNC Chapel Hill group puts on classes, international residencies, runs a community youth center in Chapel Hill, and operates a backpack-sized recording studio. They recently received a one million dollar grant from the State Department to fund their Next Level program which uses popular music and dance to foster diplomatic goodwill and model conflict resolution through collaboration. The group has traveled to Senegal, Panama, Fiji, and Ethiopia teaching hip-hop, making beats, and recording music.
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Indy Week (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 31 Issue 46, November 2014, p18 Periodical Website
Subject(s):
Music in education; Music--Instruction and study; International relations
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Record #:
35399
Author(s):
Vleck, Philip Van
Abstract:
Harry Davidson inherited an orchestra desperately in need of leadership to develop its potential. His shared secrets of success included Mozart and Haydn as teaching tools for students and a passion for teaching. By year three of his leadership, faculty and students’ heightened morale inspired Davidson to start planning programs by the season rather than the concert.
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Metro Magazine (NoCar F 264 R1 M48), Vol. 2 Issue 9, Dec 2001, p57-58 Periodical Website
Subject(s):
Duke University; Orchestra--North Carolina; Music in education; Musicians
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Record #:
27719
Author(s):
Hussey, Allison
Abstract:
Girls Rock NC is a winner of a 2014 Indie Art Award. The group runs a camp, after school programs, and retreats for adults. Their main initiative is a music camp for girls 7-16 to help them learn to raise their voices as young women through music. The Chapel Hill group hosts sessions on body confidence, the history of women in music, and leadership. Girls Rock NC helps girls gain confidence and works for social justice.
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Indy Week (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 31 Issue 46, November 2014, p21 Periodical Website
Subject(s):
Music in education; Camps; Women--Education; Women--Societies and clubs
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Record #:
26963
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Paul Jeffrey, a saxophonist and Duke music professor, has been a major force in pioneering jazz education. He has also played an important role in documenting the achievements of local jazz musicians, such as Thelonius Monk and John Coltrane, through transcriptions of their music.
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Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 6 Issue 3, Feb 11-24 1988, p21, por Periodical Website
Subject(s):
Jazz musicians; Music in education
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Record #:
35785
Author(s):
Southards, Donna; Hunnicutt, Nancy
Abstract:
An interview with a teacher involved with the Foxfire Music Program, which is a student run organization that includes projects such as video-taping, photography, environmental studies, and journalism.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 26 Issue 1, May 1978, p27-34, il Periodical Website
Subject(s):
Music in education
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Record #:
3237
Author(s):
Kahn, Elizabeth; Kahn, Joe
Abstract:
The Basic Education Program has music objectives at every grade level. However, at some Triangle schools, limited funding for resources and teachers, lack of time, and scheduling can make meeting objectives difficult.
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Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 15 Issue 8, Feb 1997, p15, il Periodical Website
Subject(s):
Music in education; School music--Instruction and study
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