Description: Music Education in Hong Kong
Here’s a short overview of my engagement with sound studies as a music educator in preparation for my participation in the virtual conference Sound, Meaning, Education: Conversations .
I first learned of sound studies in 2005 via a review of Katz’s Capturing Sound in the New Yorker. A few years later, when I was teaching at the University of Illinois I met Jonathan Sterne , who was on campus to give a talk on the MP3 book he was then finishing—an encounter that influenced me deeply. I taught Sterne’s Audible Past in a doctoral seminar, which helped me start to understand what was, for me, a different way of thinking about sound in human experience.
I began trying to make conceptual sense of the implications of sound studies in a series of essays, including my introductory essay as editor of the section on media in the Oxford Handbook of Music Education , “ Music education in the postperformance world .” I followed this up with an article focused more on sound recordings, “ The shifting locus of musical experience from performance to recording to data: Some implications for music education .” The essay draws on short stories by James Joyce and Richard