2024年5月22日

Understanding 音乐 within its cultural and historical context is crucial for both performers and audiences to fully appreciate its richness and significance.

In a soon-to-be published article in the Journal of Band Research, 埃里克•辛顿, director of bands and department head and associate professor of 音乐 at 浩博体育app, presents a model for the ethical scholarship and performance of African American 音乐 in predominantly white institutions. It was derived from Hinton’s own direction of Susquehanna’s Symphonic Band and Wind Ensemble and its 2019 concert showcasing African American 音乐.

“To give as authentic and expressive a performance as possible, we made a concerted effort to present the 音乐 to the ensemble in a way that would give them insight far beyond the reading of a set of program notes,欣顿说. “The goal was to provide the kind of context that would lead to real understanding of the works and the composers who created them.”

的前提, 辛顿说, presented the opportunity for interdisciplinary work between Hinton and Michael Thomas, former assistant professor of 哲学 也是 非洲研究 at 浩博体育app. Leading up to Susquehanna ensemble’s 2019 performance, Hinton and Thomas placed the work of seven African American composers into a sociohistorical context for student performers. 这样做的时候, they identified three tactics that are crucial to helping performers at predominantly white institutions give informed performances of African American 音乐 — interdisciplinary collaboration, contextualizing of Black experience and training in Black performance traditions and practices.

“We sought to develop a framework for interpreting and presenting these works to the ensemble that highlights the role of 音乐 by African American composers as a vehicle for educating the performers and the audience with regard to African American history and Black experience,欣顿说. “Employing these tactics can help ensembles paint a picture of the rich contributions of African American classical 音乐 to Western 音乐al tradition and brings attention to often-ignored composers as a means of fostering cross-cultural communication, understanding and appreciation through aesthetic experience.”