Creating Multicultural Music in the Classroom
March 11, 2011
Illinois ASCD Conference for Pre K-Kindergarten Educators
This hands-on workshop allows teachers to build and make multicultural folk instruments from common and recyclable materials. The purpose of this workshop is to explore instruments from around the world, facilitate sharing of ideas, inspire creativity, and allow teachers to facilitate similar discussion and exploration with their students to connect music to cultural studies.
Teachers will build instruments from materials provided. Examples of various “recycled” instruments and their authentic counterparts from various parts of the world are illustrated below.
Shakers
2 from Kenya, Mexico, homemade.
Rasps (Scrapers)
(l-r) homemade, Mexico, Tennessee-USA, Jamaica
Drums: (l-r) South Africa, Mexico, Jugs: Jamaica & homemade.
Ghana & home-made.
Rainsticks
Chile, homemade, Indonesia
Maracas
(l-r) Cameroon, Native American, Mexico,
homemade water bottle & paper mache'.
Jingle Sticks
homemade, South Africa
American Banjo and homemade canjo