by admin | May 15, 2023 | Arts Education, Education, Music
Many parents are forgoing an emphasis on their children’s education in the arts in favor of STEM-related subjects. It’s not uncommon today for students to be enrolled in extracurricular “kids coding” classes, as opposed to music or art lessons. In the past few years,...
by Myranda Harris | Apr 4, 2022 | Drumming in Pop Culture, Ethnomusicology, Percussion
Over the past two or three decades, more and more professional percussion artists in the United States have begun to incorporate frame drum into their skillset, giving rise to what might be called a “modern frame drum culture.” In this article, I explore how modern...
by admin | Mar 25, 2019 | Academia, Higher Education
Young professionals should stop joking about the mental and emotional stress that comes from working in academia. Scrolling through social media, I see yet another self-deprecating meme posted by a young colleague in graduate school. The meme is a cartoonish sketch of...
by Myranda Harris | Apr 2, 2016 | Drumming in Pop Culture, Gender, Percussion, Popular Culture
As a female drummer (or “percussionist,” if you want to sound fancy), I rarely get on my soapbox about the unequal representation of females to males in the drum community. But recently I ran across an article circulating on Facebook that disturbed me enough to speak...
