SCOTT GOBLE & ANITA PREST
J. Scott Goble is Associate Professor of Music Education at the University of British Columbia, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses and supervises work of M.Ed., M.A., and Ph.D. students. A specialist in vocal and choral music, he taught music in public schools near Seattle, Washington, later serving on the music faculties of Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges, Boston University, and San Francisco State University. Scott has conducted choirs and orchestras in educational, professional, church, and community contexts throughout North America. His book What’s So Important About Music Education? is published by Routledge.
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Anita Prest is Assistant Professor of Music Education in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Victoria, Canada. Her current research, supported by the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada, examines the factors that must be considered in the creation of appropriate Indigenous material choral music resources (in partnership with the Victoria Native Friendship Centre). Anita teaches music education courses to both secondary music specialist and elementary generalist teacher candidates. Prior to her appointment at the University of Victoria, Anita taught K-12 music for 20 years in rural and metropolitan settings.
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A Tale of Two Epistemes: Music in the Public Forum of Canada and in the Community Life of the Nuu-chah-nulth People
Following on our study of the ways in which some public school music educators in rural BC have begun working with Indigenous peoples to facilitate the embedding of local Indigenous knowledge and musics in their K-12 classes and schools, we compare the ways music is conceptualized according to the epistemes evident in two contexts: in the public forum of Canada, a culturally pluralistic, democratic nation where political history and the marketplace have determined how music is widely conceived, and in the community life of the Nuu-chah-nulth, an Indigenous people within British Columbia, drawing implications for music education locally and globally.