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2165 25077 - PublicationOpen AccessShuo Chang (说唱): Giving voice to and through Xinyao (新谣), a musical practice in Singapore(UNESCO Observatory for Multi-Disciplinary Research in the Arts, 2010)
; Chia, Wei KhuanSinging – as a natural human expressive outlet – is a phenomenon both assumed and understated and a few reasons are offered to account for this ambivalence. First, the act/tivity understood as ‘singing’ disguises its psychoacoustic reality as ‘voiced sounds’ (Sundberg 1991) as well as its secondary biological function (Vennard 1967, p. 37) in human endowment. Secondly, as sound ‘personifies’ (Ihde 2007, p. 21), ‘voiced sounds’ personify the confluence of individual and social identities. Finally, as a combination of sonorous and lyrical textuality, ‘voiced sounds’ interpret sonorous outcomes such that words, vowels, and phonemes are so many ways of singing the world (Merleau-Ponty 2004, p. 217). Our study of新谣 (Xinyao) as a musical practice in Singapore (Groves 2001) examines the assertions of singing ‘as a natural human expressive outlet’. Following the accounts of a prominent voice in the practice for whom singing is 说唱 (shuo chang) – speech singing, we suggest an understanding of shuo chang first as voiced sounds and second as a practice involving voiced sounds. Much of the research material for this paper was obtained with funds from a research grant awarded by the National Arts Council of Singapore in 2002.819 2330 - PublicationRestrictedFacing the music: an educational perspective in redesigning a core module(1999)The objective of this project was to assess and evaluate the implications of redesigning this core module by viewing the module as a world of musical practices. This objective has, as its rationale the view from the music educator David3, that music is, at root level, a human activity, is context dependent and practice-specific. Being informed of any of these practices also involves the fundamental element of the teaching and learning of any of these practices. Since the module identified specific musical practices, the most effective way to run this module was to implement an experiential learning approach. (taken from the Introduction page).
196 57 - PublicationOpen AccessLearning through popular music, lessons for the general music programme syllabus in Singapore(Office of Education Research, National Institute of Education, Singapore, 2024)
; ; This project sought to investigate the identity, role and function of popular music within classroom-based education in Singapore.
Popular music is characterised by: (i) lnterdisclplinarity (music, dance, poetry, theatre, etc); (ii) It suffuses the lives of school-going youth in their out-of-school curriculum. (iii) Skill acquisition is frequently gained through more informal learning than is usual in institutional settings (Green, 2002). (iv) Participation in popular music by various communities seems to cut across ethnic, religious and age boundaries, which makes popular music participation an interesting study in social integration. (v) Engaging in popular music potentially provides students life-long engagement The impact of popular music in the classroom has not been fully explored.
Creating, performing and responding to popular music genres arguably act as an apt medium of and for self expression considering the complex nature of an ever-shifting demographic mix and strategies to bring about more effective social integration across communities-of-practice (Wenger 1998) engaging the later cosmopolitan society in Singapore.
The GMP (2008) document supports the value of popular music beginning with musical skills of composing, improvising and recreating extending to identity formation and multiplicity in identity negotiation in group dynamics (MOE 2008, pp. 7-10). Current broader educational aims are to develop creative, imaginative and socio-culturally well-tempered individuals and popular music has an important educational role to play in this respect. Dairianathan and Lum (2010) have discovered how popular musics re/iterate their place in the music curriculum for music as lived and living space.
Secondary factors crucial to this research are: (a) to examine the place of popular music in local public and international schools across Singapore, (b) to draw out the intrinsic and extrinsic motivations for school-going youth to be engaged in popular music and (c) to critically examine popular music immersion in relation to the objectives established in the GMP syllabus (MOE 2008).
16 103 - PublicationOpen AccessMusic (and education) and technological affordances: Reflections of re/living public outreach repertoire performed by the Second Straits Settlement Police Band in early 20th century Singapore(2023)
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