Learning and Teaching Traditional Music in Cambodia: Challenges and Incentives

Autor/in	Grant, Catherine
Titel	Learning and Teaching Traditional Music in Cambodia: Challenges and Incentives
Quelle	In: International Journal of Music Education, 35 (2017) 1, S.5-16 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0255-7614
DOI	10.1177/0255761415619394
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Music Education; Folk Culture; Nongovernmental Organizations; Incentives; Semi Structured Interviews; Musicians; Teachers; Students; Learning; Motivation; Cambodia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Musikerziehung; Anreiz; Musiker; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Student; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Lernen; psychologische; Motivation (psychologisch); Kambodscha
Abstract	Substantial efforts have been made since the Khmer Rouge regime to revitalize traditional Cambodian music genres. While they have met with some success, local circumstances still present many difficulties for the transmission of traditional music to the younger generations. This study explores the challenges in learning and teaching traditional Cambodian music, as well as incentives, from the viewpoint of a group of students, teachers, and master-artists involved in the transmission activities of one non-governmental organization (NGO). Better understanding the challenges may help policy-makers, NGOs, and artists themselves to overcome them; better understanding the factors that encourage young people to learn (and older people to teach) may help safeguarding efforts at a critical juncture in the future of these art forms. Based primarily on interview and observational data from fieldwork in 2013 and 2014, the findings of this study underscore three challenges in particular to the transmission of traditional music genres in contemporary Cambodia: musical and technical difficulties, the changing social function of the genres, and economic pressures. In addition to intrinsic motivation, participants identified economic gain as a key incentive for young people to learn these genres. The author makes suggestions for overcoming the challenges and further motivating young people to learn traditional Cambodian music. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01