Ignite presentation on Cartesian Dualism and its effects on music education.

1. Separation of Mind
and Body in Music
Education
By Amy Pennock

2. Cartesian
Dualism
René Descartes
1596-1650

3. Mind body
Reason and Intellect
Senses & Physical Being

4. Body Mind
Feminine Masculine
Controlled by Controlled by
impulse Cartesian reason
Dualism
Emotional
Rational
Sexual
Universal
Perceptive
Transcendent
Uncontrollable
Analytical
Logical
Image and
Affect
Technology

5. Save music
from its
feminine
delineations!

6. How can we Regulate the
marginalize discourse!
what is feminine
in music?
Text

7. Discourse
constructs the
topic

8. The Musical Canon
Who’s missing from this picture?

9. Can we join your
canon club?
We’re the best.
Follow our rules. then
maybe you can be in,
but probably not.

10. Music is a literacy
I can’t wait to go
Man, I thought
home and sing
music was different
and dance with
than this. Now it’s
my music.
just like all my other
classes!

11. Music is a universal
language
Dude
Somebody
stole your
body!

12. Music is like math

13. Hey Music teachers
save your trade!
Standardize music
education.

14. “Docile Bodies”
=
We may have the skills, but what are
the meanings we are making?

15. Down with disco!

16. BODY

17. ...AND THE CYCLE CONTINUES

18. TROUBLE
KNOWLEDGE
Music is experiential
Music is physical
Music is meaning-full

19. Embody Social
justice in music

20. Place Conscious
Embrace the “body” part of music