![]() The syllabi consciously balanced contemporaneous articles and reviews with more contemporary views. Led Zeppelin, Electric Blues, and Hard Rock. ![]() John Coltrane, Spirituality, and A Love Supreme. Paul Simon, Graceland, and “World” Music. The university courses I first created for music majors and general college students alike-players and non-players, jazz-focused or not-were specific to artists and styles: Miles Davis, Kind of Blue, and Modern Jazz. A big part of the challenge and the fun-if one cares to look at it that way-of being a music instructor is riding the waves of change that continue to wash through the world of music instruction and academia in general. When I started teaching, only 15 years ago, it was simply Music History and Criticism. These days, the name for what I teach is either Non-Performance Studies or Emergent Media. ![]()
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