Teachers are back the LA's classrooms and the NAMM show has featured California Department of Education's specialist Jack Mitchell talking about state Arts standards.
Standards is a popular design construct which drives engineers and designers in the electronics, parts, and manufacturing industries that in part drive success of the Music Industry in their sound, light, and tech options that have led to award-winning changes in hearing, seeing, streaming and enchanting players, performers, audiences and driving sales and creative achievements in Entertainment, the Arts, Religious gatherings and large events.
International trade has been a driver of sales and of innovation. Up and down the West Coast, our educational system, the post war economy, the rock and roll revolution, transducers and transformers, the Space Race and the Silicon Valley in combination with new materials, new problems to solve, collaboration and a drive to support radio, records, fans, and use large venues, have brought wireless mics to stacks of speakers and electric guitars or drum sets and so many more tools of the music trade to transform recording, storage, singing, and distribution of music throughout the country and then exponentially copied through the globe.
This week, we have our music merchandisers formative trade fair that has rotated between Los Angeles and Anaheim in play.
Building on the giants of the performance world, scientists, engineers, writers, players, innovators, roadies, visionaries, policy makers, policy planners, copyright industries, arts educators, music publishers, accessories, fan software, social media and marketing companies, agents, publishers, manufacturers, and their back bone educators/community music stores, chain stores, online resellers analysts, family owned businesses, new store owners, insurance companies, college grads, trade associations have been going to All Star Guitar night or doing business, learning, meeting, seeing, planning and learning.
The trade magazines to streaming content will fill the halls. The community drum circle to the policy talks about arts education and award winning students will perform.
NAMM's in session and will talk about national issues with specialists from all parts of the business. The Foundation talks about Education and innovation in the classroom or by school boards and districts. It's the place to be for learning about the latest line of professional gear, business, and the business of music. You can find out the fads that build artist on the road voice care or body well-being. From digital lessons, to degrees, to healthier practice techniques, to marketing communications or social media innovation, tips and colleagues in trade, commerce, management, education, trade support services, new materials, digital streaming, tech integration and more.
It's the place to be. There will be a memorial to leaders lost and a salute to challenges faced and sales heights reached. It volume, instruction, trad music to fine arts is your thing your will find it in the rows of booths from all over the world.
Just a moment too to remember the passing of Michel Legrand this weekend and songwriters whose songs have also innovated and driven new generations to understand music through the movies, music collections, and collaborations between writers, friends, allies, and studios whether recording studios, schools, or sound tracks.
Bravo to the Arts and Sciences enjoined in the AATVC and connected career clusters.
Bravo to those missed and to those who participated as their first year. Bravo to the new women in retail and on the Board of NAMM. Bravo to Bono and Generation Music I.E.
It's a brave new world and we look forward to what's next.
It's ok- you can exhibit next year:
https://www.namm.org/exhibit/wn19
Or head to Summer Namm in July:
https://www.namm.org/summer/2019
Issues and Advocacy:
https://www.namm.org/issues-and-advocacy
https://www.laweekly.com/arts/namm-show-returns-to-anaheim-convention-center-bigger-and-better-than-ever-10130319
https://www.nammfoundation.org/articles/2015-03-03-namm-foundation's-mary-luehrsen-honored-music-education-advocacy
https://www.nammfoundation.org/articles/2019-01-14/talking-music-education-podcast-interviews-broadcast-live-2019-namm-show
Music Matters to NAMM and to Schools all over the U.S.:
https://www.nammfoundation.org
https://www.nammfoundation.org/articles/2018-02-16/namm-members-learn-how-promote-inclusion-arts-education-all-schools
https://www.nammfoundation.org/educator-resources/striking-chord-publics-hopes-and-beliefs-k-12-education-united-states-2015
https://www.nammfoundation.org/resources-educators
The LAUSD strikers defended the Arts in Education:
"The district's Arts Education Branch has worked to expand year-round arts instruction in all disciplines for its students since budget cutsfollowing the 2008 financial crisis. In 2015,
LAUSD released the Arts Equity Index report to determine how the district was doing to make sure English-language learners, foster youth, and students living in poverty have access to the arts. It determined that 75% of schools were underserved or grossly underserved by the arts. Since that time, the district's arts budget has doubled to over $31 million, but still falls short of pre-recession levels." (hyperallergic.com article below)
Sir Ken Robinson and NAMM nonprofits/Research driving research and practice:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/43940.Ken_Robinson
https://www.mediafactory.org.au/victoria-landale/2013/08/22/all-children-are-born-artists-the-problem-is-to-remain-an-artist-as-we-grow-up-pablo-picasso/
Paradigm shift….LAUSD teachers demand more arts:
The Story of Oliver and of future generations:
Please Sir, Can I have some more?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQuQUn7Wjlw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouP-YMTfCX4
Kids React to Technology:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kesMOzzNBiQ
From Caterall to Snow and from Project Zero to the Leonard Bernstein Arts Framework…children are given a context to learn:
https://www.gse.harvard.edu/masters/aie
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?pid=186590984
https://www.edutopia.org/arts-music-curriculum-child-development
https://www.arteducators.org/research
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Papert
Overview:
https://www.cde.ca.gov/pd/ca/vp/vaparesources.asp
https://ccsso.org/sites/default/files/2017-12/2013_INTASC_Learning_Progressions_for_Teachers.pdf
Connected World:
https://www.musicfirst.com
Los Angeles has a newly formed Comhaltas of the Angels and this is a contemporary and historic nonprofit and publishing and training consortium that sets a standard for the world:
https://comhaltas.ie/music/
http://comhaltasla.org
https://www.musicgeneration.ie
Don't Miss the Research and Grantors in California from County to State:
https://www.lacountyarts.org
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Arts_Council
http://cac.ca.gov
Don't' Miss the RMC Drum Circle and the Latest Research:
https://remo.com/team/member/arthur-hull/
https://remo.com/team/
http://drummagazine.com/remo-music-center-opens-in-valencia-california/
Publishers will be in San Diego this May! (The Voice of the Print Industry):
https://printmusic.org/rpmda-announces-the-2018-dorothy-honoree-and-other-announcements/
Wikipedia and Digital Libraries still open:
https://library.si.edu/collections
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_digital_library_projects
https://learningpath.org/articles/Ranking_the_Worlds_Best_Digital_Libraries.html
Accapella on Billboard:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Worry,_Be_Happy
http://www.worldwideworkshop.org/programs/past-programs/learning/mamamedia-com
Research space that NAMM, the State Boards of Education, Teachers, Publishers, Grad Students, Nonprofits, and Cognitive Scientists and Universities have pursued:
https://earts.org/usr/Cognition.pdf
The Cuts that hurt:
https://www.scpr.org/blogs/education/2012/10/10/10421/lausd-arts-funding-cut-76-five-years/
https://www.acf.hhs.gov/ofa/resource/tanf-and-moe-spending-and-transfers-by-activity-fy-2017-contains-national-state-pie-charts
2017-2019 news on the trending CDE column:
https://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/vapacontentstds.asp
Broader Perspective:
https://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/
https://www.villagemusiccirclesglobal.com
https://www.villagemusiccirclesglobal.com/events/
Myrtle Beach and round the world:
https://www.dcfg.net
Glossary to look at Young Audiences, Wicked, School Performances, and Arts Education Specialists, even the LA County Arts Commission in new ways:
https://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/thglossary.asp
Details on the Strike Agreement:
https://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-edu-lausd-strike-deal-details-20190122-story.html
Arts Ed and the Agreement:
https://hyperallergic.com/480790/how-teaching-artists-configure-into-the-los-angeles-teachers-strike/
Nashville:
https://musicmakesus.org
Texas:
https://www.tmea.org
SOS on an iPhone:
https://www.payetteforward.com/what-is-emergency-sos-on-an-iphone-heres-the-truth
Michel Legrand:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Legrand
https://www.songhall.org/profile/Michel_Legrand
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8284302/michael-legrand-french-composer-dead/