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How Music Can Change Your Life

90 classificações

The University of Melbourne

How Music Can Change Your Life

90 classificações

Did you ever wonder how music works? This course provides free video, audio and journal resources that explain six basic principles about how music can influence individual and community health and wellbeing. From biology and neuroscience, to psychotherapy and politics, the ways we engage with music can make all the difference. Music has always played an integral role in the lives of individuals and communities all around the globe. This course explores the ways that music can be used to achieve positive changes with a particular emphasis on the most vulnerable persons. Six different understandings will be explored, each with their own set of values and assumptions. The greatest thinkers in each approach believe that their way of explaining the power of music is right, but we will show that understanding music in its entirety delivers the best results in each unique circumstance. Once we understand the various ways that music can change the world, we can make informed decisions about how best to employ its extraordinary power. Learners who engage in this MOOC can expect to both deepen and broaden their understanding of how music can be used with individuals, groups and communities. Specifically: • To distinguish between how music works on the body, in the brain, through the unconscious, for bonding, as political action and in reflecting culture, • To design practical programs that utilise music to support individuals, groups and communities based on examples shared in the ‘on-site’ case studies. View the MOOC promotional video here: http://tinyurl.com/jnde3w3

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How can music express culture and honour our diverse societies?

Each of us belongs to a range of culture and subcultures, including our ethnic heritage, our gender and sexuality, our abilities and ages. Many of us live in diverse neighbourhoods and cities where it is not enough to be culturally tolerant - we need to be culturally curious and engaged. Music is a powerful way of honouring diversity in culture and has been used to transcend differences and come together as many voices singing one song. We explore how important it is to be aware of our own power and privilege when musicking with people from cultures other than our own.

Unit 6 introduction - part 1 of 25:12

Unit 6 introduction - part 2 of 24:24

Cultural studies perspective introduction0:43

Cultural studies perspective13:21

Introducing Richard Frankland5:42

Music and voice10:40

Music as teacher7:48

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Katrina Skewes McFerran
Professor
Melbourne Conservatorium of Music

We of course use music and song in a whole heap of other ways.

The old people used to talk about singing someone, and

you could sing someone to death or you could sing someone for love.

So music is a magic tool as well.

And I think even now, there's many people, irrespective of race, creed,

or colour, who fall in love because of a song, or are reminded of great love or

great moments in their life.

Some people are reminded with classical music, some with contemporary music,

some with jazz, and all of the other styles.

I like all of them.

I use music with my kids, so I use the arts a lot with my kids.

I write songs about them.

I write poetry about them, and I share it.

Sometimes I write a song and I don't play if to anyone, and

I just let it go, like a gift to the world.

And sometimes I write them for me, a song I wrote about my sister passing

is a song that's been sung in plays,

in films, nothing too famous.

And it talks about that amazing grief

that we face when we lose someone that we love dearly.

What that song taught me, and

the journey of my life, is that grief is fundamentally, love.

So music teaches and gives a gift on a multitude of levels, and

it's got many, many uses.

Another perspective or way to describe parts of my

perspective as an aboriginal man, and as a man, is that music is a form of energy.

Now when a tree, I was a taught, when a tree falls over in

the bush and dies, the energy changes shape.

That tree becomes a home for animals.

You might find a possum living in there, or a snake, and lots of bugs.

And then it becomes food for white ants, or termites.

It changes shape, so its energy changes shape again and again.

And it changes shape into being coal in a diamond.

And even if you burn that tree, it becomes a light that never goes out.

And that's just in this dimension.

Aboriginal people believe there's many dimensions, so

music is a tool in that regard.

And it can heal, it can hurt, and it can light a direction.

And we practice it in the Western Eurocentric culture

everyday without realising it.

A lot of people listen to a song and say, wow, that's my life.

A lot of people play a song to heal, to get over a heartbreak,

a death, to get over a moment of anger.

The band Latin Alliance,

which when they came out in the 90s were banned in America.

But they used their voice, their artistic voice, their songs,

to illustrate the disproportionate equity within the American system.

So they represented Latinos, they represented all of these cultures that

were marginalised, that didn't fit through the access point to wealth and power.

We see the same thing here in Australia with the Aboriginal people.

We have great artist Kev Carmody who is one of my great inspirations

who writes songs about cultural interpretation on a whole heap of levels.

And he gets very excited because the young people sometimes record his songs

with a contemporary perspective, but at the same time,

they have the essence of the song coming out of their lips.

So they're talking in old man's words, sorry Kev, in a contemporary setting.

And other people have recorded his songs, everyone from Paul Kelly, Missy Higgins,

John Butler, Troy Cassar-Daily, Archie Roach.

All on the one album, Sarah Storer, and they're brilliant messages.

Other inspirations, a lady, she's passed now, Carol Frazier,

who's a great jazz musician.

A large personality, a woman who was an incredible

character, and gave music to the world.

Another man who's passed, Zac Martin, who was Portland’s,

which it was a town of about 8,000 people, Portland's first busker (street performer).

And he was black as the ace of spades and

used to tell ghost stories in between his songs and terrify us kids.

He died incidentally,

I am told, swimming the Brisbane River on the run from the police.

But he was also in a television series called Super Boong, and he was a superhero.

But he went to get changed as mild mannered reporter.

He went into the pub to get changed, and Aboriginals weren't allowed in the pub.

So what is song to me ultimately?

It's a great gift.

And it's a gift that I get given, and that I give to the world when I can.

Mama

They took my land away

Mama

I don’t know what to say

But I picked up my gun this morning

Loaded bullets too

It’s time I took a stand

Gonna fight for me and for you

Gonna fight

Gonna fight

Mama I’ll fight for me and you

I’ll fight for me and you

and Mama

I found my sister

They had, had taken her away

Well I found my baby sister

Didn’t know what to say

It’s time I took a stand

Gonna fight til their judgment day

Gonna fight

Gonna fight

til their judgement day.

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