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The Problem Part 4: the indoxination of musicians

Posted on July 22, 2025July 22, 2025 by Jonathan Andrew Govias

Being nice, being friendly, being polite is so alien to group music making that apparently it looks like praxial innovation.

Posted in UncategorizedTagged art, authoritarianism, baker, classical-music, collier, Govias, improvisation, jazz, music, music education, orchestra, pedagogy, power dynamics, sistema, teacher-training, teachingLeave a comment

Sistema is Dead – and “THE RESPONSE”

Posted on January 4, 2024 by Jonathan Andrew Govias

There’s a certain charming simplicity and predictability to the remnants of the Sistema movement, vestigial though they may be. Publish a deliberately hyperbolic polemic on the demise of the word, and you can set your watch to THE RESPONSE.

Posted in Philosophy of El SistemaTagged music education, orchestra, pedagogy, sistema, VenezuelaLeave a comment

Report from ISME 2016

Posted on August 7, 2016August 7, 2016 by Jonathan Andrew Govias

Didn't make it to Glasgow? Here's some of the stuff you might have missed.

Posted in UncategorizedTagged Boustany, glasgow, ISME, music education, Palestine, pedagogy, Pottier, quartet, Searle, SIG, sistema, VenezuelaLeave a comment

Avoiding the Clap Trap

Posted on August 25, 2014 by Jonathan Andrew Govias

It may be ubiquitous as a pedagogical tool, but does that make it a good idea?

Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acarigua, Clapping, clapping hands, internal clock, music education, pedagogy, rhythm, subdivisions1 Comment

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  • The Problem Part 6: where in our search for solutions we pick on a theoretical middle school band instructor
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  • The Problem Part 3 – where we conflate “control” with “learning”
  • The Problem Part 2 – where we explore Authoritarianism in music education, with the help of the Karate Kid.  

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