Thanks to everyone who has helped. It has made ahuge diffence to my approach.
My music project is just about to see the light of day.
In the meantime I though I would post here any useful information I have found so that other music advocates can use it.
Performing Arts
THE DEVIL'S MUSIC
When the new sound of jazz first spread across America in the early twentieth-century, it left delight and controversy in its wake. The more popular it became, the more the liberating and sensuous music was criticised by everyone and everything from carmaker Henry Ford to publications like the Ladies Home Journal and The New York Times. Yet jazz survived. The Devil's Music examines the evolution of jazz from a radically new and socially unacceptable musical genre to its current status as a great American art form.
Saturday 4 July 2009 3.30pm
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Duration: 60 mins
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VIETNAM SYMPHONY
In 1965, as the Vietnam War intensified and Hanoi faced the threat of massive U.S. bombing, students and teachers from the National Conservatory of Music were forced to flee the city for the relative safety of a small village in the countryside. With the help of villagers, they built an entire campus underground, creating a maze of hidden tunnels, connecting an auditorium and classrooms. Here, as the war raged around them, they lived, studied and played music for five years. (STUDY GUIDE AVAILABLE)
Sunday 5 July 2009 11.00am
SBS ONE Rating: (PG, WS, Rpt)
Duration: 60 mins
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Foreign Correspondent: Venezuela/USA - Bravo! Encore!
Foreign Correspondent: Venezuela/USA - Bravo! Encore!
In a Venezuelan slum a young girl practices on her clarinet and dreams a big musical dream. On a stage in New York City an 80 year old clarinetist takes his final bow to rapturous applause. The two are worlds apart but joined by the profound, elevating forces of music.
This week Foreign Correspondent takes off on an inspirational adventure in music to discover how it's lifting children out of squalor and danger in Latin America and how - in North America - it's lifted audiences to their feet time and time again to applaud a musician who's played with the New York Philharmonic for 60 years.
In Caracas, Venezuela where the streets thump with hip hop, Latin rhythms and violent crime, Eric Campbell introduces us to a remarkable project that's brought more than a million kids into the world of classical music. The National Youth Orchestra System is designed to steer kids away from a life of drugs and crime.
Genesis da Silva is 13, dedicated to her clarinet, practices five hours a day and dreams of one day playing in the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra. Despite her family's poverty, El Sistema allows her to dare to dream of a classical career.
The happiness, enjoyment and hope that practice in music brings to the suburbs and poor neighbourhoods undoubtedly it also creates a tremendous barrier against drugs, against violence, and vice, and all that undervalues the existence and that makes it miserable.
Jose Antonio Abreu - project founder.
On assignment Campbell saw first-hand how dangerous life is when he was caught up in a shooting and held at gun-point by police.
"The beauty of music is a daily antidote for the ugliness around them," Campbell says.
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http://www.menc.org/information/advocate/facts.html
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Patriotic Music May Close Minds, Children's Music May Open Them
Patriotic Music May Close Minds, Children's Music May Open Them
Music Thought To Enhance Intelligence, Mental Health And Immune System
Music Thought To Enhance Intelligence, Mental Health And Immune System
Music Reduces Stress In Heart Disease Patients
Music Reduces Stress In Heart Disease Patients
Jog To The Beat: Music Increases Exercise Endurance By 15%
Jog To The Beat: Music Increases Exercise Endurance By 15%
Guitarists' Brains Swing Together (Mar. 18, 2009) — When musicians play along together it isn't just their instruments that are in time -- their brain waves are too.
Guitarists' Brains Swing Together
Adolescents Involved With Music Do Better In School
Adolescents Involved With Music Do Better In School
Music Education Can Help Children Improve Reading Skills
Music Education Can Help Children Improve Reading Skills
It goes on-- lots of research at this site:-
EG
Time Invested In Practicing Pays Off For Young Musicians, Research Shows (Nov. 5, 2008) — A new study has found that children who study a musical instrument for at least three years outperform children with no instrumental training -- not only in tests of auditory discrimination and ... > read more
First Evidence That Musical Training Affects Brain Development In Young Children (Sep. 20, 2006) — Researchers have found the first evidence that young children who take music lessons show different brain development and improved memory over the course of a year compared to children who do not ... > read more
Music Training Linked To Enhanced Verbal Skills (Sep. 27, 2007) — Music training, with its pervasive effects on the nervous system's ability to process sight and sound, may be more important for enhancing verbal communication skills than learning phonics, according ... > read more
Are Smart People Drawn To The Arts Or Does Arts Training Make People Smarter? (Mar. 6, 2008) — Learning, Arts, and the Brain, a study three years in the making, is the result of research by cognitive neuroscientists from seven leading universities across the United States. One of the eight ... > read more
If this is not relevant (?) it
is very interesting
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Paleolithic Bone Flute Discovered: Earliest Musical Tradition Documented In Southwestern Germany
These finds demonstrate the presence of a well-established musical tradition at the time when modern humans colonized Europe, more than 35,000 calendar years ago
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Paleolithic Bone Flute Discovered: Earliest Musical Tradition Documented In Southwestern Germany
Something seems to be happening in Australia
http://www.musicincommunities.org.au...article&id=185
