Multi-Cultural Techniques for Teaching Rhythm

This course utilizes music and dance traditions from Cuba, Brazil, Ghana and other locales to offer teachers alternatives to mainstream rhythm pedagogy. Since different cultures teach music in different ways, the experience of learning how rhythms are taught in other cultures will increase the teachers’ options in the classroom for rhythmic education and development. The rhythms will be presented in both their traditional forms and in simplified forms. The simplified forms make the different music, dances, and cultures more accessible to the younger student.