Remix Portal: Connecting Classrooms with Local Music Communities

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dc.contributor.authorDodds, Colin
dc.contributor.authorKharrufa, Ahmed
dc.contributor.authorPreston, Anne
dc.contributor.authorPreston, Catherine
dc.contributor.authorOlivier, Patrick
dc.contributor.editorLewkowicz, Myriam
dc.contributor.editorRohde, Markus
dc.contributor.editorMulder, Ingrid
dc.contributor.editorSchuler, Douglas
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-04T19:54:10Z
dc.date.available2019-04-04T19:54:10Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractWe present an exploration of the potential benefits of connecting music classrooms with the surrounding music community through the act of music remixing. Inspired by the rise of an online participatory culture involving music remixing, we conducted a study where we transposed these activities from their informal, online context to a formal, classroom context. Our goal was not to make students proficient music remixers, but instead to explore whether remixing could serve as a tool to engage learners in their formal education and increase their desire to participate in both online and local music communities. Qualitative methods were used to gather data before Activity Theory was applied to evaluate the issues surrounding moving remixing activities between contexts. Our contribution is three-fold: (1) A demonstration of the benefits and challenges around connecting classrooms to local music communities through music remixing activities (2) Remix Portal, an easy to use music remixing and sharing application which can help young people move beyond a position of passive consumer of music towards a position of active contributor (3) The identification of key design criteria for growing the remixing application into a sustainable and social platform.en
dc.identifier.doi10.1145/3083671.3083679
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-4503-4854-6
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherACM Press, New York
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the 8th International Conference on Communities and Technologies
dc.subjectMusic
dc.subjectactivity theory
dc.subjecteducation
dc.subjectmusic production
dc.subjectremixing
dc.titleRemix Portal: Connecting Classrooms with Local Music Communitiesen
dc.typeText/Conference Paper
gi.citation.endPage212
gi.citation.startPage203
gi.conference.dateJune 26-30, 2017
gi.conference.locationTroyes, France
gi.conference.sessiontitleLong Papers
mci.conference.reviewfull

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