CDIME

CDIME: Cultural Diversity in Music Education, is a network of institutions and individuals with interests in the dynamic life of music, education and culture, and who wish to pursue questions of position, content, and methodology relevant to teaching music and culture to students in a variety of contexts, including multicultural populations in elementary and secondary schools, in undergraduate and graduate music programs in colleges, universities, and conservatories, and in community schools (a phenomenon that is strongly present in urban settings of Western Europe).

The CDIME movement to study the phenomenon of ‘teaching world music’ began in Amsterdam in 1991 as a gathering of specialists in music education, ethnomusicology, and world music performance studies. Mostly European at the outset, conferences in Switzerland, the U.K., Sweden, the USA, the Netherlands, and Australia have attracted an international roster of specialists in search of appropriate and effective pedagogy for the incorporation of art, folk/traditional, and popular musics of the world’s cultures in educational settings ranging from studio lessons by artist-teachers and university ensembles to children in elementary schools.

The 10th International Conference on Cultural Diversity in Music Education was held at the­ Sydney Conservatorium of Music from­ 11-13 January 2010.

CDIME10 information and documents:

• Conference Program [PDF 161kb]
• Session abstracts [PDF 295kb]