Workshop #1: Culturally Responsive Teaching through Black Music Aesthetics

Clinician: Dr. Loneka Battiste

Saturday, September 21, 2024

Registration: 9:00-9:25am 

Workshop: 9:30am-3:00pm

In person OR online (Zoom)

​About the workshop:

What does the Cupid Shuffle and Earth, Wind and Fire have to do with teaching elementary general music? Find out with us as we explore culturally responsive teaching and Black Musical Aesthetics (BMA). BMA are structural characteristics and musical processes that tend to be common among Black musics. In other words, it is what we do and how we do it.  So let's sing, dance, and play with Black Musical Aesthetics!

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About the Clinician:

Loneka Wilkinson Battiste is an international scholar with over 20 years of experience teaching music in school and community settings. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Education (Music Concentration) from Dillard University, a Master of Music degree in Vocal Performance from the University of Oklahoma, and a Ph. D. in Music Education from Louisiana State University. Her scholarly interests include culturally responsive teaching and Black musical aesthetics. Her work has been published in the Choral Journal, Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, Journal of General Music Education, Proceedings of the International Society for Music Education, and General Music: Dimensions of Practice.

She has presented several papers and sessions at local, national, and international conferences and symposia. She is also an active clinician who presents workshops on culturally responsive teaching and Black musical aesthetics. She has been a featured clinician for the Texas Music Educators Association conference in San Antonio, Texas, and was the featured mini-conference presenter for the Organization of American Kodály Educators national conference.

Before entering higher education, she was the Pre-K through 12 elementary general and choral instructor at Southern University Laboratory School in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She served as Assistant Minister of Music at Greater Mount Carmel Baptist Church for ten years and was music director for several community theater productions. In addition, she co-created and led a summer performing arts program for children in the Baton Rouge community. Loneka Wilkinson Battiste is committed to ensuring all students experience a sense of belonging at the center of school music programs.

Location

St. Paul's Lutheran Church (Gym)

5244 Tujunga Ave North Hollywood, CA 91601

Parking:

You may use street parking, meter parking, or the lot of the elementary school behind Wagner Hall. The parking lot behind Wagner Hall is off of McCormick St. and Bakman Ave. If you park in the lot, walk north/west back to the corner of Tujunga Ave. and McCormick St. to get to the gym where the workshop will be held. Look for the KASC banner!

Parking Map: https://bit.ly/3zyvKmF

Pricing:

$30 KASC Members/$40 Non-Members (Members will get a coupon code for $10 off!)

FREE Full-time students:

If you are a full-time student and want to attend our workshop for free, then become a FREE member of OAKE with KASC as your chapter! Be sure to select "full-time student" as your membership type.

https://www.oake.org/become-a-member/

(Current student members will receive a coupon code for free admission via email. If you become a full-time student and haven't received the coupon code, email us at kascmail@gmail.com and we will provide it!)

*NOTE* The email containing the Zoom Link will be sent to you on Friday, September 20th at 9:30am.  Our email automations are sent from "notifications@wixevents.com" and the subject will be "Workshop #1 Tomorrow! (Zoom link included)". Please check your junk mail if it seems you did not receive this email! You may register all the way up until 9:30am on the day of the event.