A Miner Revelation
A miner’s revelation: Oh crap! The canary just keeled over!
A minor revelation:
I don’t know why this didn’t occur to me earlier. There’s been some talk in class and on my lovely little blog about how I don’t get the whole hip-hop pedagogy/composition connection. I’ve got a better grasp on it now that it’s been made clear that hip-hop is only a model for a new way of approaching comp–a model that holds up whether you use hip-hop or any one of the hundreds of contemporary music genres you can choose from.
We’ve also had a lot of discussion and readings about granting students agency by working with them as not just consumers of culture but producers of it as well.
Now, the so obvious it’s obscure revelation:
Music has producers too.
So. . .the idea of a pedagogy inspired by sampling/juxtaposition/appropriation–that is, composition modeled on music production. . .fits right in with our (well, at least my) goal of teaching students that are cultural producers.
I hate when things come to me and they seem both obvious and revelatory. I’m never sure which feeling to trust.
