The Handbook on Music Business and Creative Industries in Education - Daniel Walzer

The Handbook on Music Business and Creative Industries in Education - Daniel Walzer

Anyone Can be a Musician: Art School Pedagogy and the Rise of the Non-Musician

The Handbook on Music Business and Creative Industries in Education - Daniel Walzer

Simon Strange [+-]
Bath Spa University
Simon Strange is a multidimensional creative, spanning the academic and creative industries, a trombone player, music producer, photographer and socio-cultural academic. Simon has performed around the world and curates the Sidmouth International Jazz and Blues Festival. Strange is Research Programme Manager at Bath Spa University, overseeing an AHRC funded project related to the concept of story. He leads a team who are exploring the use of Story Skills within a range of organizations. His first book, Blank Canvas, based on pedagogical connections between UK art schools and popular music, was released by Intellect Publishing in 2022, looking at the creative connection between art and music. Simon has written articles for the Journal of Popular Music Education as well as presenting at various conferences of the IASPM, KISMIF, and the Punk Scholars Network.

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Undertaking an extensive history of UK art education, Simon Strange’s chapter draws on interviews with visual artists and musicians – to include Brian Eno, Dexter Dalwood, Gina Birch, Gaye Black, and others – to conceptualise a punk-inspired, DIY model of teaching and creating in popular music. UK art schools in the 1960s and 70s served as a breeding ground for postmodernist experimentation, where artists dismantled or “unlearned” traditional models of practice, favouring new technologies and aesthetics, and blurring the lines between visual art and popular music. Strange concludes with a vision for how popular music educators might replace more commercially focused concepts for a more expansive, art-inspired model of music-making.

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Strange, Simon. Anyone Can be a Musician: Art School Pedagogy and the Rise of the Non-Musician. The Handbook on Music Business and Creative Industries in Education. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 129-146 Sep 2024. ISBN 9781800505223. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=45322. Date accessed: 21 Nov 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.45322. Sep 2024

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