Justine Dolorfino: Archive

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Did Whites Flee the 'Digital Ghetto' of MySpace? →

(via d-min) Well, this is certainly an interesting look at social networking, and as a heads up, I’m not sure how much of my reflection is tongue-in-cheek or dead serious. I haven’t read the full text yet myself, but I downloaded it and I’ll definitely post again if I find anything really interesting that I agree or disagree with. I never really hear of anyone using MySpace...

Jul 16th

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The Music Professional Learning Network opens for... →

I’m really excited about the fact that the MPLN has just opened for beta! I can’t think of any better ways to utilize the power of Web 2.0 and the quickness of sharing information on the internet than this website. Here is the mission statement, as written by Dr. Joe Pisano— The mission of the MPLN is to generate better, more accessible, information about music, education, and...

Jul 4th

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Conferences, Professional Development, & Dr. Jim... →

An interview with @jimfrankel + a general introduction to our upcoming Music Education Week 2010 coverage! The conference certainly was a whirlwind adventure, and be sure to watch http://musiced.pressible.org as well as http://www.musicedmajor.net for our recaps of all the academies and sessions that we went to. While it was exhausting, I found the entire experience to be simultaneously...

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Jun 26th

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“Intelligence is learnable. People can become more intelligent by living and...”

– Resnick, L. B. & Hall, M. W. (2003). Principles of Learning for Effort-Based Education (E-Book).

Jun 22nd

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“There is mounting evidence coming from research in cognitive science and social...”

– Resnick, L. B. & Hall, M. W. (2003). Principles of Learning for Effort-Based Education (E-Book).

Jun 21st

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On Athleticism & Musicianship

I have been wondering for some time about whether musicianship and athleticism (and, by extrapolation, identifying oneself as musical/a musician or athletic/an athlete) are actually all that separate from each other. There’s so much in pop culture (e.g., Glee, where jocks slushie the glee clubbers… and pop culture does take its cues from real life occurrences) that suggests that the...

Jun 19th

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Gender Associations & Discrepancies: What’s A...

A crosspost of my guest post over at musicedmajor.net… A week ago I went to see a concert in a renowned space in one of the biggest cities in the United States that was well-attended by both men and women and featured no female musicians. As a female jazz player, I was incredibly disheartened to see that there were no women whatsoever in the Lincoln center Jazz Orchestra and was reminded of...

Jun 2nd

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Watch

I am officially in love with Beyoncé’s new song, “Why Don’t You Love Me,” and its video. Not only is the song (co-written by Beysus herself) really catchy, in my opinion, but the video just brings up so much to think about. Sociologically, it’s really interesting. The whole concept of the music video revolves around this character, B. B. Homemaker, doing housework...

May 7th

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Music & Music Education Blog @ TC →

I’m really excited that Teachers College is getting into Web 2.0 by setting up a blogging community using WordPress at http://www.pressible.org. I think it’s going to be a great way to further all kinds of discourse, be it interdisciplinary or just within our program. There are a lot of possibilities for these. — Right away, I think the main department website will be great for...

May 6th

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May 1st

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Why I want a Boss RC-50 in my classroom.

Check out this video, first: the guy basically simulates the texture and sound of a band using his loop pedal station. Around the 3rd minute he even adds harmonies! The song’s also pretty catchy. Now this one: this guy demonstrates the pedal station using voice (and you also get a clearer idea of how the thing works). Also, I like his dancing skillz. Boss RC 50 Loopstation...

Apr 29th

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Apr 28th

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my first #musedchat experience

One of the reasons why I missed Twitter so much during Lent was because I knew that #musedchat was taking place on Monday nights at 8pm EST. Now that I’m done (mostly) with the scheduling craziness that has defined this semester, I finally got the chance to participate in #musedchat last night. Here is the transcript from the chat (I’m @justine_robin). Discussion centered around...

Apr 20th

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“Not long ago at the commencement exercises of one of our large universities an...”

– Campbell, as cited in Koza, 1993. Some fun quotes from the beginning of the 20th century regarding the popular v. art music dichotomy from the point of view of music educators (who, through the designing of their curriculum, did much to keep this dichotomy in place). There are other quotes from...

Apr 14th

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Mar 9th

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Turning Off Social Media: Slow Withdrawal

Part 1. It’s been 17 days now sans Twitter and Facebook. I’m amused that people think that this is some sort of epic giving-up stunt; so many people have reacted with Really?s or How?!s or Why?!?s. For our generation, though, it’s pretty odd to imagine going without either or both of these services, even for a little bit. I’ve gotten more of those reactions because of the...

Mar 8th

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Best Music Streaming Service: Grooveshark -... →

The race for the top slot was a tight one. Grooveshark took home the prize with 31% of the vote beating out Pandora (29%) by a little more than 200 votes. Following Pandora, Last.fm (14%) and Spotify (13%) engaged in a similar neck and neck battle for the third and fourth spots respectively. Trailing behind them was Lala with 5% of the vote, not a bad show for a new and relatively unknown...

Mar 4th

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MP3Cut Easily Slices Sections of Uploaded MP3s -... →

When you need to slice a piece of of an MP3 and you don’t have time to mess around with downloading a new application and learning how to use it, MP3Cut offers dead simple and web-based MP3 snipping. How convenient! This definitely could be useful.

Mar 3rd

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Why I like Ke$ha's music.

(This post has been a long time coming. I think I saved my reference articles on January 7, ha. Oh, and heads up for stronger language.) So. Ke$ha. (& yes, I’m going to refer to her always with the $ in the name). I think she’s great. Ke$ha manages to make guilty-pleasure electropop that makes you think about morals, values, gender roles, and sexuality in Western society today....

Feb 22nd

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TuneGlue Helps You Find New Tunes You'd Like by... →

“If you’d like to discovery some new music and do it in a visually appealing way, TuneGlue let’s [sic] you explore the relationship between artists and bands in a connection-based web… We went from Iggy Pop through Patti Smith -> PJ Harvey -> Tori Amos -> Alanis Morissette -> The Craberries -> Garbage.” This looks like 1) a really fun way to kill...

Feb 18th

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Turning Off Social Media

(Disclaimer: My blog posts are auto-tweeted to my Twitter and Facebook accounts; I’m not actively doing it.) For Lent this year I’m giving up Facebook and Twitter. It’s not that I use those services all the time, obsessively, but like most people my age, I’ve gotten used to having Facebook as something to kill time with (read: procrastinate assignments with) on the...

Feb 18th

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“To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them.”

– Nadia Boulanger

Feb 14th

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Study: Jazz Improv Cranks Up Brain's Creativity →

This is really interesting and brings up a few questions for music education: how do we (and can we even try to?) go about teaching this? There’s the straightforward, mostly academic “instruments, important figures, significant songs and albums, swing feel, groove, blues scales, syncopation, etc. etc.” kind of approach that I’ve experienced in my own education, but is that...

Feb 11th

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Feb 7th

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MENC's poll on singing in television →

I didn’t contribute to this poll, but it seems that my thoughts were well-represented regardless. While I agree with the majority of the common themes, I have a problem with the following: No educational value presented. Granted, the poll is about all television shows that feature singing, & I could definitely see that statement being applied to American Idol, but is this really the...

Feb 1st

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State of the Union 2010 & GOP Response: Education

I just wanted to archive the text dealing with education for my own personal purposes; hopefully others may find this useful. The following makes me very optimistic, which exactly how I want to feel regarding the future of the United States. I also want the government to back up these ideas with actual concrete change and positive growth, of course, so we’ll see what happens. Now, this...

Jan 28th

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“ “The arts teach children to exercise that most exquisite of capacities, the...”

– Elliot W. Eisner http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/3789/ (via stopdrop)

Jan 27th

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