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How Can An International Art Form—Classical Music—Still Be Wearing European White Wigs And Buckled-Toe Shoes?” , Dena Jones
How Can An International Art Form—Classical Music—Still Be Wearing European White Wigs And Buckled-Toe Shoes?” , Dena Jones
Dena Kay Jones
Selected Presenter at the Third International Conference on Education, Labor and Emancipation (CONFELE). Living and working in a bicultural region led me to investigate my own “traditional” upbringing of classical music and music education and how some of those approaches do not work at my current institution. These thoughts were presented at the CONFELE conference in a lecture entitled, “How Can an International Art Form—Classical Music—Still be Wearing European White Wigs and Buckled-Toe Shoes?” Topics covered in the lecture included the dissemination of Central and South American composers and their works, the UTEP Department of Music’s student demographic, differences in …