Digital Natives in Contemporary Culture: Digital Beat Making and Sampling in Music Teaching and Learning
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In recent years, calls for diversifying the field of music education have examined the pedagogical practices associated with teaching secondary music classes. Many of these claims have situated music education as a field of practitioners who predominately teach through a teacher-directed approach, often singularly focused on Western-art European traditions. Although worthy of continued inclusion in music education, critics claim this homogenous focus has disenfranchised particular populations of students. In response, suggestions for increasing including a more diverse range of students have been proposed. Some have proposed new directions for music education, suggesting that (1) digitalization of our culture is shifting the locus associated with our students needs and interests in music classrooms, (2) digital “natives” now permeate most youth culture and are saturated with mobile and tablet devices for social media, instant news, information, and entertainment, and (3) music taught in conservatory schools of music is often homogenous, limited to the “elitist” few, excluding a wide range of students who have musical interests in other areas.
