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The VMC welcomes participation by members of the community and general public across a wide range of its ensembles, sponsored groups, and activities, but has also developed and partnered with initiatives specifically designed to facilitate community participation. |
The VMC welcomes participation by members of the community and general public across a wide range of its ensembles, sponsored groups, and activities, but has also developed and partnered with initiatives specifically designed to facilitate community participation.<ref>http://www.dailytoreador.com/lavida/article_d1edf492-7730-11e2-a218-0019bb30f31a.html</ref> |
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* [http://www.depts.ttu.edu/music/Faculty/ChristopherSmith.asp Dr Christopher J Smith], executive director |
* [http://www.depts.ttu.edu/music/Faculty/ChristopherSmith.asp Dr Christopher J Smith], executive director<ref>http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/37nzk8md9780252037764.html</ref> |
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* Abi Rhoades, administrative coordinator |
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* Candice Holley, administrative assistant |
* Candice Holley, administrative assistant |
Revision as of 22:01, 19 July 2013
The Vernacular Music Center at Texas Tech University | |
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Address | |
School of Music MS2033, Lubbock TX 79409 , | |
Information | |
Type | Public |
Motto | We live in the whole world of music. (paraphrasing Henry Cowell) |
Established | 2000 |
Executive Director | Christopher J Smith |
Enrollment | Approximately 540 |
Campus | Lubbock |
Information | 806 742 2270 x266 |
Website | http://vernacularmusiccenter.org |
The Vernacular Music Center at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, is a center for in-depth and comparative research, study, teaching and advocacy on behalf of the world's vernacular musics and dance. The Center was founded at Texas Tech in the Fall of 2000 under Executive Director Dr Christopher J Smith. [1][2][3]
The VMC engages with folk music, traditional music and dance from around the world: vernacular idioms that are learned, taught, shared, and passed-on by ear and in the memory.[4]
The Center was founded on the model of the Indiana University Latin American Music Center and Early Music Institute. The term "vernacular" is employed in its title in order to explicitly, directly allude to "vernacular languages"--those languages used for commonplace communication--and in order to avoid potentially problematic terms such as "folk," "traditional," or "non-Western." VMC alumni have gone on to graduate programs, internships, and professional appointments in a wide range of situations, including universities, arts series, and the private sector.
The Center partners with campus and community groups on the local, regional, national, and international level. These include: Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann, the Country Dance and Song Society, the Bay Area Country Dance Society, and others.
For Students
For students The VMC sponsors a range of activities--courses, ensembles, sponsored organizations, scholarships, Study Abroad, summer courses, and others.
The VMC's faculty and affiliate faculty offer a range of courses cross-listed under musicology, ethnomusicology, music theory, folklore, anthropology, and other fine arts & humanities disciplines.
The VMC is widely engaged in sponsoring and partnering with student and community groups.[5]
The VMC sponsors students engaged in vernacular music and dance studies:
In addition to serving on the TTU Study Abroad Competitive Scholarship committee, VMC faculty also lead study abroad experiences in Ireland, England, Spain, Germany, Italy, and the Low Countries, with expanded program offerings in Kenya and Zimbabwe on the horizon.
For Educators
The VMC provides a range of presentations, consultation, in-service professional development resources for Fine Arts specialists: locally, regionally, and across the country.
VMC teaching staff and affiliates include expert pedagogues specializing in folk and traditional music and dance from: northern and eastern Europe; northern, western, and southern Africa; the Americas; the Indian subcontinent; and Polynesia, in addition to film music and a very wide range of popular and vernacular musics from the USA.
For the general public
The VMC welcomes participation by members of the community and general public across a wide range of its ensembles, sponsored groups, and activities, but has also developed and partnered with initiatives specifically designed to facilitate community participation.[6]
Events
The VMC offers a range of monthly, weekly, and annual events, almost all open to the general public.[7]
Funding structure
The VMC depends for funding (for guest artists, scholarships, young-professional training, event-production costs, ensemble travel, and all other programming) upon a network of supporters.
All guest artist concerts and master-classes are free & open to the campus and community.
Receipts from ticketed events are 100% allocated to support of VMC programming.
Staff
- Dr Christopher J Smith, executive director[8]
- Abi Rhoades, administrative coordinator
- Candice Holley, administrative assistant
References & notes
- ^ http://www.rootsmusicinstitute.com/director.html
- ^ TTU Vernacular Music Center holds first multi-ensemble outreach meeting By: L.B. Higginbotham September 11, 2011 examiner.com/article/ttu-vernacular-music-center-holds-first-multi-ensemble-outreach-meeting
- ^ http://symposium.music.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=8922:holding-the-lotus-to-the-rock-creating-vernacular-music-communitys-in-red-state-america&Itemid=133
- ^ http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/vernacular
- ^ http://lonestarvarsity.com/local-news/2012-07-17/irish-music-and-dancing-livens-northwest-lubbock-neighborhood-tuesday
- ^ http://www.dailytoreador.com/lavida/article_d1edf492-7730-11e2-a218-0019bb30f31a.html
- ^ http://kfyo.com/texas-tech-vernacular-music-center-and-moonlight-musicals-to-host-world-premiere-show-dancing-at-the-crossroads-audio/
- ^ http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/37nzk8md9780252037764.html
External links
- Official site
- Facebook page
- School of Music
- Texas Tech University
- TedX talk by Dr Smith "The Old Ways"
- Google Plus