VINCENT BATES
Vincent Bates has earned degrees from Brigham Young University and the University of Arizona. He currently serves in the teacher education department at Weber State University. Previously, he taught horn and general music at Northwest Missouri State University and K-12 music in Eureka, Utah. He is production editor for Action, Criticism, and Theory in Music Education and director of the Weber Snow Music Licensure Program, a collaborative program between Weber State University and Snow College.
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Media Ecology and Sustainable Music Pedagogies
In this presentation, I consider possible meanings of “media ecology” for music education, a term that has been applied, as metaphor, to the human/social networks within which digital media are situated. The science of ecology, on the other hand, takes in the full spectrum of organisms interacting within a given environment or ecosystem. I will draw from Arne Neass’s seven principles of deep ecology, as well as materialist critiques of media ecology, to move beyond the metaphor and consider what materialist media ecology could mean for music teaching and learning in schools.