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HISTORY STANDING COMMITTEE SYMPOSIUM 2 PRESENTED AT THE 35th ISME WORLD CONFERENCE (BRISBANE), 2022 Symposium Title: Historical Perspectives on Music Education in Indigenous Communities Abstract: Since 2006, ISME’s History Standing Committee has proposed a Symposium to honor and highlight the host country’s music education history. This Symposium will consider the historical context for the sharing of Australian Indigenous music in education and community settings. Promoting Indigenous music in formal, non-formal and informal education will be discussed. Issues will include the nature and role of Indigenous music prior to colonization, the work of past and present researchers as well as contemporary music practitioners in promoting Indigenous music as core knowledge, the challenge of how to revitalise Aboriginal performance traditions to facilitate greater sharing, the development of appropriate permissions and protocols to enable wider community access, the challenge of decentering whiteness in music curricula that currently alienates many Indigenous students, and the role of Indigenous music in mainstream education. Although the focus will be on Australia, there will also be an international perspective based on a parallel situation in Argentina. Presenters will draw on recent case studies that provide exemplars for future educational opportunities in Australia and elsewhere. The inclusion of Indigenous music in school education was highlighted in the 2005 National Review of School Music Education as being a specific priority in the development of the Australian National Curriculum. Pascoe, R., Leong, S., MacCallum, J., Mackinlay, E., Marsh, K., Smith, B., Church, T. and Winterton, A. (2005) National review of school music education: Augmenting the diminished. Australian Government Dept. of Education, Science and Training & The Centre for Learning, Change and Development, Murdoch University, R6.1, p.xix . The Symposium will consider this recommendation within both the historical and contemporary contexts and its application to a variety of contemporary education-and community-based settings. Symposium Convener: A/Prof Robin Stevens (Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, The University of Melbourne) Presenter: Dr Malcolm Cole (Cannon Hill Anglican College, Brisbane) - The impact of colonisation on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander music processes in the 19th and 20th centuries Presenter: Candice Kruger (School of Music, The University of Queensland) - How Indigenous music education practices can be maintained and promoted within Indigenous and the wider communities Invited Presenter: Prof Clint Bracknell (School of Languages and Cultures, The University of Queensland) - What a travelling song can tell us about Aboriginal musicking at the onset of colonisation Invited Presenters: A/Prof Sally Treloyn and Tiriki Onus (Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, The University of Melbourne) - Indigenous music in tertiary institutions in Australia: histories, good practices, and challenges Presenter: Prof Silvia Esther Villalba (Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Agentina) - Educational-Cultural Experiences from the “Qom” Ethnicity, Chaco Province of Argentina A video recording of this symposium may be accessed by clicking on the following icon: