The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #8913   Message #531578
Posted By: Kaleea
20-Aug-01 - 12:39 AM
Thread Name: What schools have done to folk music
Subject: RE: What schools have done to folk music
I taught classroom music for a while and ran away screaming. I taught elementary & secondary band & vocal music. The kids did not want to be there, the parents did not have any control over their children, therefore discipline flew out the window, the administration only wanted to collect their paycheck & didn't care about problems. Traditional music was left out of the textbooks. I learned traditional music at home as well as at school when I was a child. It is rarely taught in the home now. The younger children loved singing games I taught them such as "Way down yonder in the paw paw patch" but older kids only wanted rock. Band music was pop music. I have given serious thought to opening a school of traditional music, but I haven't been able to figure out how to make a living while I build it up.