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Thank you very much Peter! 2013/12/4 Peter Smagorinsky <smago@uga.edu> > Ulvi, I can't directly answer your inquiry, which I'm happy to see posed > here. But I can direct you to an incredibly successful organization that > focuses on jazz rather than classical music. > http://jazzhousekids.org/home.php is run by singer Melissa Walker and her > husband, bass player Christian McBride (probably the world's greatest jazz > bassist at this point) in the Newark, NJ area. I know of it because my > brother is chair of their board (and McBride's 3rd favorite bass player, I > might add, after Ray Brown, whose bass McBride plays, and Jaco Pastorius). > > They do collect whatever they can find that justifies the role of music in > education and beyond, and include lists of benefits and outcomes, although > I don't know how many of them have empirical support beyond what the people > in the program find through their work with kids. I've written a couple of > checks, and a couple of pieces supporting what they do: > > Smagorinsky, P. (2013, January 21). My View: Hear the music - STEM studies > aren't the only path to a better future. CNN Schools of Thought. Available > at > http://schoolsofthought.blogs.cnn.com/2013/01/22/hfr-my-view-hear-the-music-stem-studies-arent-the-only-path-to-a-better-future/ > > Walker, M., & Smagorinsky, P. (2013, January 1). The power of school music > programs: Students come for the music and stay for the math. Atlanta > Journal-Constitution. Available at > http://blogs.ajc.com/get-schooled-blog/2013/01/01/the-power-of-school-music-programs-students-come-for-the-music-and-stay-for-the-math/?cxntfid=blogs_get_schooled_blog > > These brief essays are not research, but describe how their programs do a > great job with a whole lot of kids in providing what I've called a positive > social updraft in their lives through music. > > Anyhow, hope this helps, and that if anyone's got a few bucks to donate to > a good cause, they keep this great outfit in mind. p > > -----Original Message----- > From: xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu [mailto: > xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu] On Behalf Of Ulvi Içil > Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2013 4:46 AM > To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity > Subject: [Xmca-l] Non-formal music education for working-class children > > Dear all, > > Does any body know for any experience in which a master or Ph.D. thesis is > written for an experience in which low income children learn playing music > instruments for Western classical music and this process, together with > children's changes also the lives of the parents, functioning as a > learning process for parents also, in overall changing the interactions > between children and parents, and children themselves. > > Ulvi > > Status: O