Resumen de "Horses for courses?": indigenous african music in three relocated educational contexts
Robert Mawuena Kwami, Morakeng Edward Kenneth Lebaka
Agbadza, a Ghanian dance, is the focus of ongoing research into the teaching of indigenous black African music arts in curricular contexts. Although indigenous black African music has been taught in educational institutions ¿ primary and secondary schools, colleges and universities ¿ as well as to teachers in the United Kingdom for over 15 years, this is the first time that an opportunity has arisen to teach the musics in an African country. Three case studies of children are presented, analyzed and discussed. The data so far garnered suggest that different contexts need or require flexibility and different teaching approaches for effecting teaching, that teaching or transmission models predicated on indigenous, traditional indigenous African methods and systems are effect "horses" and, that these tools need further investigation and development for more wide-scale and wide-spread application.
