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Dr Eugene Seow | Bassist & Percussionist
Doctor of Music Education
PUBLICATIONS
August 2024
Dr Eugene Seow's doctoral thesis at Liberty University's School of Music - download here.
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"This project recognizes the potential of pedagogical innovation through world music concepts, particularly in applying world music education techniques to acquiring undergraduate aural skills. The study examines concepts from African drumming, Indian tala, Arabic maqam, and Japanese gagaku, briefly inquiring into the psychology and theory behind these world musics, and determines how best to transfer the concepts to an undergraduate aural skill teaching curriculum alongside its core concepts rooted in the Western classical idiom. Thus, teachers can augment aural skills education at the collegiate level with cross-cultural perspectives and integrative techniques. This qualitative narrative inquiry research recognizes the imbalance in academia where non-Western musical theoretical concepts often receive less scholarly weight than Western ones. Through technical applications of world musics, this paper aims for a byproduct: to change the conception of anything non-Western as exotic, instead seeking to normalize non-Western ideas in aural skills acquisition education. The study presents possible approaches through sample exercises to specific world musics through the Western lens of music education, showing possible synergy methods between them. Indeed, many fields increasingly incorporate non-Western concepts into teaching methods; this project hopes to inspire academics to examine world music concepts to expand their repertoire of pedagogical approaches."
March 2022
Dr Eugene Seow contributed a chapter entitled Music on screen – reflections on livestreamed concerts to this book.
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"With a future characterised by exponential change, technology kinks, and crises that serve as vehicles for fast-forwarding the impacts of change, it is fortuitous that a group of genuine experts with wide and deep backgrounds in education, music, and other industries has written about their experience during the COVID-19 crisis, including the immediate adjustments they were required to make, the division of those adjustments into ones that are transitory and should disappear when the crisis is over and others that will likely be more permanent, and lessons that can be learned from the crisis to make us be better prepared to meet the challenges and take advantage of the opportunities that will be presented by future crises."
