Wayfarers: confronting the past through history and traditional music education in schools
Guitars, mandolins, fiddles and the other instruments that make up a contemporary traditional band resonate with sonically encoded narratives. This project developed a work package with a discrete outcome: we used emerging research by Odena (2018) on the role of music education for school integration and Tonner (2016) on theoretical issues of facing up to controversial histories in heritage settings to develop a ‘teaching pack’ for a pilot study in a secondary school to teach about the “musical migration” of Scots to Appalachia, Eastern U.S., and the challenging historical factors (e.g. forced migration, slavery and segregation) that they encountered.