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USC, DMA, 2018<br>
CSULB, MM, 2014<br>
UNT, BM, 2012<br>
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Ramsey Castaneda, DMA</h1>
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USC, DMA, 2018<br>
CSULB, MM, 2014<br>
UNT, BM, 2012
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<h5 class="text-left text-muted text-center"> De-mythifying and Deromanticizing Jazz Performance and Jazz History Education</h5>
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Over the past few years my focus as an educator has turned to de-mythifying and deromanticizing jazz education and jazz history. Nietzsche’s aphorism, “They muddy the water to make it seem deep,” seems an apt description for much of jazz education (though by no means all). My mission is to elucidate jazz performance (improvisation, theory, etc.) and deconstruct notions of jazz and authenticity found in traditional (and untraditional) jazz history narratives using techniques from melodic embellishment for improvisation and "New Jazz Studies" in history and historigraphy. I'm particularly inspired by the writings of <a href="https://jazzstudiesonline.org/author/krin-gabbard" target="_blank">Krin Gabbard</a>, <a href="https://www.bcu.ac.uk/media/applying-to-us/our-staff/tony-whyton" target="_blank">Tony Whyton</a>, <a href="https://people.miami.edu/profile/daa75@miami.edu" target="_blank">David Ake</a>, and others.
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<p class="indent small">Though I'm an eager participant in the performer-scholar/artist-teacher lineage, I champion the notion that there are a <a href="http://ramseycastaneda.com/music-world/music-careers.html">multiplicity of avenues for living a fulfilling and meaningful life in the “music world”</a> (a la Howard Becker’s <a href=“#” class='font-italic'>Art Worlds</a>). Single-minded focus on performance as the primary measure of success is a detriment to individuals, music, and the communities in which young artists find themselves. Rather than exalting “superstardom” (or virtuosity, or releasing an album, or size of repertoire, etc.) as the benchmark for success, performance educators would do well to reframe the mission of the music major to the development and strengthing of relationships and engagement between musician and their local community via <a href="http://www.artistic-citizenship.com/">artistic citizenship</a>.</p>
<h5 class="text-left text-muted text-center">Embracing Educational Research and Philosophy in Jazz Scholarship and Pedagogy</h5>
<p class="indent small"> Education philosophers and music-education philosophers (including Dewey, Reimer, Alperson, Kivy, Elliott & Silverman, Bowman, Noddings, and others) have profound insights that can help us clarify and achieve the aims of music education. The pursuit of clear philosophical aims can be coupled with research produced in both quantitative and qulativate spheres in music, psychology, sociology, and beyond. I once read about an old saying: "He's educated, but it didn't hurt his playing none." Jazz education in particular has much to gain by simply opening itself up to the aims, practices, and research in its sibling fields, of philosophy of (music) education, assessment, sequence, and feedback. As soon as jazz educators and performers accept that jazz stands to gain from the fruits of its sister fields, not unlike Frederick Garbers statement that "<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=yT56t7hriTEC&lpg=PP1&dq=Representing%20jazz%20krin%20gabbard&pg=PA73#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank">The primacy of improvisation is in no sense encumbered or compromised by an awareness of the frames of discourse</a>," the better. </p>
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<span class=""> Chair, Upper School Music Department</span>
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<span class=""> Courses taught: Private Jazz Lessons for Classical Saxophone DMA Candidates
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On Michael Bublé's 2018 album, <span class='text-danger'>❤</span>, (pronounced, "Love").
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<p>A solo with Jon Hatamyia Group</p>
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A solo during the Paquito Rivera workshop at Carnegie Hall
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A solo with Peter Erskine and the Disneyland All-American College Band
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Saxophonist (all parts) on Disney's <i>Making Today a Perfect Day</i> for the TV show <i>Best Friends Whenever</i>
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Saxophonist on Disney's <br><i>Sophia the First</i>
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1) "Invoking Jazz: Meanings of 'Jazz' in Television, Film, and Advertising"
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Documenting Jazz 2019, Dublin, Ireland
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"Jazz Poetry: Jazz and the High School Literature Classroom," CASMEC, 2016, Fresno, CA
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"Expectations vs Reality: Experiences of Recent DMA Graduates," CASMEC 2017, Fresno, CA
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"An Analysis Of Chris Potter's Improvisations During His Teen Years," JEN 2018, Dallas, TX
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"Jazz Music, Musicians, and Iconographic Depictions in Popular Culture and Mass Media," JEN 2019, Dallas, TX
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"Jazz in Popular Culture," JEN 2019, Dallas, TX
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<div class="card-footer">"Through the Lens: How Photography in Jazz History and Appreciation Textbooks Shapes Our Understanding of the Music," Documenting Jazz 2020, Birmingham, England</div>
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As an undergraduate at the University of North Texas, I taught myself basic web-development to put online a Chris Potter discography that I had created. This first attempt at coding and publishing a web-project put me in contact with other jazz scholars and fans around the world and initiated meaningful musical connections that expanded my perspective of jazz beyond performance. During my doctoral studies, I took classes in interactive web and database development. </p>
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Over the past few years, I've enjoyed marrying my passions for music, theory, and history with code and pedagogy. Below are some of the projects I've created. I've created web-applications in PHP, SQL, Angular, Angular Universal, Vue, and of course JavaScript, HTML and CSS. </p>
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A searchable and sortable Coltrane discography that includes publically available transcriptions
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<li class="small">A Google Street-View timeline of Coltrane's residences accompanied with biographical information and lists of recordings Coltrane made while living at particular locations.</li>
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A searchable and sortable Chris Potter discography that includes publically available transcriptions
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<a href="https://jazzinpopculture.com/view-all3.php" target="_blank">jazzinpopculture.com</a></p>
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A project to collect and catalogue representations of jazz in mainstream media. Particular attention is given to 1) the indexical significations of the word "jazz," particularly when spoken or referenced without accompaning audio or visual referents, and 2) the appropriation of John Coltrane as a symbol of "jazz." </a>
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I have presented this research at JEN 2019 (Reno, Nevada) and Documenting Jazz 2019 (Dublin, Ireland). Continuing this theme, I am co-presenting related papers on photographic tropes in protoypical historic jazz photographs at JEN 2020 (New Orleans, IL) and Documenting Jazz 2020 (Birmingham, England).</a>
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Interactive flashcards featuring randomly generated questions in the form of "What is the X of Y," where X is a scale degree and Y is a key. For example, "What is the b13 of Ab," to which the user must respond with "Fb." Similarily, I also created <a href="https://music-theory-practice.com/solfege/learn-movable-do-solfege.html">Solfege Flashcards</a>
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Shortly after the online-publication of my Chris Potter discography in 2011, I became aquainted with a number of other Chris Potter afficanados and people close with him when he began playing professional as a young teenager. I have since aquired through these contacts a number of recordings featuing phenomenoual recordings of the young Potter. Analysis of a number of these solos was presented at JEN 2017 (Dallas, Tx), and the creation of a transcription book is in the works.</a>
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