World of Music / Cultural Diversity in Music Education

Announcement CDIME 10!

Announcement of CDIME 10 in Sydney, Australia, in 2010!

Conference Dates: Monday 11 - Thursday 15 January 2010
Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia

Conference Theme: The cultural aesthetics of teaching

Deadline for Proposals: October 10, 2009
Notification of Acceptance: November 15, 2009

The cultural aesthetics of teaching
Increasingly, scholars are turning their attention to the development and use of culturally appropriate pedagogies that match the music they chose to teach. Tensions between ways of teaching, what happens when music travels to new teaching and learning settings, the outcomes of mismatches between culturally developed learning styles and teaching methods in music, how teachers adapt methods to suit learners from different learning backgrounds - all of these are issues on the agenda if music education is be truly culturally diverse.

Conference convenor

Peter Dunbar-Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia.
Tel.: +61 2 9351 1334
Fax.: +61 2 9351 1287

Conference site: Sydney Conservatorium

CDIME-NINE report

The ninth international conference on Cultural Diversity in Music Education (CDIME-NINE) came and went here at the University of Washington during the 2008 cherry blossom season, March 20-23. Over 200 were in attendance at the event, including the largest contingent of ethnomusicologists in the history of CDIME, as well as performing musicians (Gyil xylophones of northern Ghana, Bosnian and Croatian song, singers and drummers of the Yakama Tribal School, Japanese shakuhachi and koto, Thai/Lao khaen, Chinese zheng, Mexican conjunto), teachers, university-level faculty in music education, performance, jazz studies, and a handful of community musicians active in Seattle, Tacoma, and Portland. Fifteen nations were represented, including parts of Europe, Africa (west and south), Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the U.S.

CDIME-NINE Program Schedule

The program schedule of CDIME-NINE

CDIME 8 AT WMDC, ROTTERDAM, IN 2006

From 13 to 17 December 2006, the World Music and Dance Centre in Rotterdam hosted the 8th CDIME conference. The focus was not only on music education, but also dance. The conference coincided with the official Opening of the World Music & Dance Centre. The next conference is to be held in Seattle, USA, in 2008. Dates are to be confirmed. Register for the newsletter to stay updated!

CDIME 2005, Brisbane: report and publication

The musical landscape – and our perception of it – has changed drastically over the past few decades. Local musics have become global, and many types of music that have spread globally have taken on significance in local settings. This has challenged traditional perceptions of coherence between ethnicity and musical aptitude and preferences. The effects of this can be felt in music teaching and learning as well: from professional training in specific traditions to community music and music in schools.