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SUMMARY:Kit Drummers and the Snowball Self: A socio-cultural-psychological
  perspective on identity and learning realisation - Gareth Dylan Smith\, L
 ondon Institute of Contemporary Music Performance
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CONTACT:Ewa Illakowicz
DESCRIPTION:This presentation explores and discusses the Snowball Self –
  a new model of identity and learning\, rooted in a socio-cultural-psychol
 ogical approach to the experiences and activities of being and becoming. T
 he presenter is a drummer and teacher. Following research among members of
  his ‘tribe’\, he presents accounts of what and how drummers do and ar
 e in a variety of contexts from taking lessons to performing in bands of a
 ll shapes and sizes. This session incorporates audio and video examples\, 
 drummer jokes and anecdotes from personal experience on the road and on st
 age with commentary from student and professional participant interviewees
 . Topics under discussion include ethnicity and cultural heritage\, sex an
 d gender\, a broad view of enculturation\, identities over time\, and the 
 chameleon-like shifts that drummers experience day-to-day in meta-identiti
 es and contextual identities. Drawing on work by Barrett (2011)\, Cole (19
 96)\, Green (2002)\, Waterman (1992\, 2007) and Wenger (1998) the presente
 r calls upon educators and scholars to recognise the essential symbiosis o
 f identity and learning when considering how we are who we are. While base
 d on research among a particular group or ‘web’ of musicians\, the Sno
 wball Self\, identity realisation and learning realisation are constructs 
 that the researcher hopes will be useful to educators and scholars working
  in a range of fields and disciplines. \n\nGareth Dylan Smith is a lecture
 r\, drum tutor and programme leader at London’s Institute of Contemporar
 y Music Performance\, and also teaches on the online MA in Music Education
  for Boston University.  He writes for Rhythm magazine and recently contri
 buted 24 articles about drummers to the Grove Dictionary of American Music
 \, 2nd edition. Gareth has written book chapters on percussion in the US m
 iddle school classroom\, collaborative music learning in higher education\
 , and on popular music in higher education. His first book I Drum\, Theref
 ore I Am: Being and becoming a drummer will be out this year. Gareth has p
 resented research at conferences in the UK\, Ireland\, Egypt\, Italy\, Chi
 na and the USA. He has been an invited lecturer at the University of Londo
 n\, University of Michigan\, Columbia University\, New York University\, a
 nd University of Southern California. As a drummer Gareth has toured Europ
 e and the USA with Irish Punk/folk band Neck\, ‘1000 % Rock’ outfit th
 e Eruptörs\, and performed throughout the UK with singer/song-writers Gil
 lian Glover\, Mark Ruebery\, Rachael Travers and guitarist/composer Stephe
 n Wheel. He can frequently be found behind the drums at a show on London
 ’s musical theatre fringe\, or playing bodhrán in a local Irish seisiú
 n. When not being scholarly or musical\, Gareth likes running\, cycling\, 
 wine\, coffee and cakes. He invites you all to the conference he is chairi
 ng at the Institute on 23rd and 24th July this year: Rock and Roles: Philo
 sophy and sociology of popular music education. 
LOCATION:Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, room GS1
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